What do you do with children suspected or convicted of committing very adult crimes? The answer isn’t easy, particularly when violence is involved.

If you think negotiating over the debt ceiling and the government shutdown is difficult, try sitting across the table from Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai. The mercurial leader has routinely trashed his biggest benefactor, gone back on his word, and presided over staggering levels of corruption and political chicanery.

The fight against drunken driving should be scored a victory.

If Maine has had a long-term strategy for dealing with elder care financing, it has been this: not dealing with it.

The saga of Malala Yousafzai is one of inspiration forged from terrible personal sacrifice. One year ago, a Taliban gunman boarded a school bus she was riding in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, demanded to know, “Who is Malala?,” and shot her in the head, along with two of her classmates.

When Gov. Paul LePage declared a civil emergency last week, many in Maine prepared for the worst.

The world’s largest telecommunications company has launched a massive public service campaign to tell people not to use its own products — not behind the wheel, anyway.

Last week was National Newspaper Week, when we celebrate the significance of the newspaper and its place in our communities.

Americans have been laboring under the delusion that we had to travel halfway around the world to find a gaggle of dangerous nut cases. Who knew we could have hung out in the western hemisphere and found all we wanted in Venezuela?

Understanding and awareness of autism has come a long way in the last 30 years, but so much concerning the condition remains in the dark, even as diagnoses skyrocket.