Families who receive food stamps will see a reduction in benefits after the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program was cut by about 7 percent beginning in November. The figures below show how the monthly benefit will change for families who qualify for the maximum allotment, based on income.

In 2006, Maine police recorded 5,459 domestic assaults. Seven of the 22 homicides that year were the result of domestic violence.

In 2009, the state completed the reconstruction of a 17-mile stretch of Interstate 295 between Topsham and Gardiner. In all, 34 miles of fresh asphalt were put down over a rebuilt roadway, at a cost of $35.3 million, paid for with federal stimulus funds.

The Sept. 20 editorial (“Rangers’ safety can be improved without firearms”) incorrectly reported statistics from the Maine Department of Labor.

To the new Miss America we offer hearty congratulations, and best wishes in her determination to ignore the psychos who have been posting racist comments online.

At one time, the Scooter Store was the largest private employer in New Braunfels, Texas. It had more than 2,400 employees with national distribution.

WHEN YOU IMAGINE the face of poverty, what do you see? Is it a senior citizen forced to chose between buying her prescriptions and filling her oil tank? Or is it a homeless man, panhandling by an intersection?

The development of vaccines against childhood illnesses is one of the great achievements of modern medicine. Diseases that cause birth defects, make children seriously ill or even kill them — rubella, whooping cough, polio — now can be reliably prevented.

State forest rangers, worried about their safety when patrolling the vast Maine woodlands in what they see as an increasingly dangerous world, are pushing hard for the right to carry firearms.