A new nonprofit health insurer for Maine will receive $62.1 million in financing from the federal government to help it start offering affordable insurance options to individuals and small businesses in 2014.

As a girl in New Delhi, Sabina Freedman grew up with the Sikh tradition of langar, the community meal open to anyone in the city regardless of religion, caste status, wealth or lack thereof. It was a lesson in equality, with the diners all sitting cross-legged on the ground, but also in humility for a girl from a privileged background.

As a girl in New Delhi, Sabina Freedman grew up with the Sikh tradition of langar, the community meal open to anyone in the city regardless of religion, caste status, wealth or lack thereof. It was a lesson in equality, with the diners all sitting cross-legged on the ground, but also in humility for a girl from a privileged background.

A vacancy is opening on the federal bench in Maine, but the work to fill it will not begin until after the November election because of the hold-up on judicial nominees in the Senate, according to the office of U.S. Rep. Mike Michaud.

Conviction rates for operating-under-the-influence charges vary widely from county to county in Maine, with the 10-year average ranging from a low of 37 percent in York County to a high of 83 percent in Hancock and Penobscot counties, according to an analysis by The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.

Conviction rates for operating-under-the-influence charges vary widely from county to county in Maine, with the 10-year average ranging from a low of 37 percent in York County to a high of 83 percent in Hancock and Penobscot counties, according to an analysis by The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram.