The story of Afghanistan known by most Americans is of horrific war scenes, lost lives and injuries to troops and civilians. Last weekend, another roadside bomb killed five soldiers working to rout terrorists.

North Korea’s sentencing of Kenneth Bae to 15 years of hard labor likely is meant to provoke the United States.

We have to hand it to Gov. Paul LePage. He may not always be right about the facts, but he tells you what he thinks.

About a week since it released its controversial A-F grades of Maine public schools, the Department of Education has announced how it plans to aid the schools that it has marked out as having fallen behind.

Between all our talk about the obesity epidemic as a public-health problem and our actual, often moralistic attitudes toward the overweight lies a distance much greater than any extra-large waistline.

Any doubts that the U.S. military has been unable to address its own problems with sexual assault should be dispelled by a just-released Department of Defense survey.

“Help me. … I’ve been kidnapped and I’ve been missing for 10 years and I’m, I’m here, I’m free now.”

The visit of a sitting governor to his disaster-stricken hometown would seem to be the perfect time for him to connect with constituents in crisis.

When a doctor sticks a needle in you, you expect that the drugs it carries won’t be tainted. But, possibly owing to a strange gray area in federal law, thousands of patients last October got injections for back pain that contained highly dangerous fungal meningitis, and dozens of them died.

Food is a basic need. Without it, we can’t survive.