The forensic dramas that have become so popular on our TV screens in recent years have whetted the public’s appetite for this particularly morbid line in detective work, but the discovery of the skeleton of Richard III beneath a Leicester car park trumps any work of fiction. It ranks as one of the most dramatic archaeological discoveries of modern times.

An immigration debate is raging and a budget crisis looms in Congress, but the conservative activists gathered outside the New Hampshire Capitol had just one thing on their minds: Guns.

We wonder what the 12 Maine lawyers assembled to review candidates to fill the next vacancy on the U.S. District Court will say to those candidates.

The riders on the nation’s first high-speed bullet train are likely to travel California’s central valley between Fresno and Bakersfield. It’s not because these two farming communities are experiencing a traffic problem, or that tourists are dying to visit the Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace Museum and Restaurant.

United States House Republicans came eyeball to eyeball with sweeping immigration reform Tuesday, and they blinked.

Should the United States give away a public asset and allow the creation of free wireless networks all across the nation?

At one point in his State of the State address, Gov. Paul LePage sounded as if he were ready to make a major policy about-face.

Americans are still in the grip of a scary flu season. Who can forget the alarming headlines about the swift spread and virulence of this year’s bug? Everyone’s still on high alert should someone sneeze or cough on the bus or train, or in the restaurant or office. Violators are dealt with harshly.

No one wants to think about what would happen if the state runs out of money to pay court-appointed lawyers. And it wouldn’t be bad news just for lawyers.

The concept is so simple that even a U.S. congressman can understand it: No work, no pay.