The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to endorse the nomination of William Kayatta Jr., a trial lawyer from Cape Elizabeth, to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to endorse the nomination of William Kayatta Jr., a trial lawyer from Cape Elizabeth, to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals.

GORHAM — An unoccupied house was targeted in the latest in a string of suspicious fires in town, but the house was spared by the direction of the wind, according to the state Fire Marshal’s Office.

An Amtrak official says that 40-year-old Sean Page was killed in the incident Monday.

Mark Stitham was born and raised in Dover-Foxcroft, so Maine was the obvious choice when he reached the point in his life that he could consider buying a second home.

The investigation continued Friday in a series of arsons in Gorham, with authorities working with evidence gathered from the fire scenes and following up on leads provided by the public.

The primary organization fighting gay marriage in the United States aimed to drive a wedge between gays and blacks and cast acceptance for same-sex marriage among Latinos as a mark of inappropriate assimilation, according to a confidential memo that was unsealed in U.S. District Court.

The primary organization fighting gay marriage in the United States aimed to drive a wedge between gays and blacks and cast acceptance for same-sex marriage among Latinos as a mark of inappropriate assimilation, according to a confidential memo that was unsealed in U.S. District Court.