If the charges in a lawsuit against former Maine Turnpike Authority Executive Director Paul Violette hold up in court, he will enter some sort of state Hall of Fame for the Creative and Flagrant Misuse of Public Funds.

As Aug. 2 fast approaches, there’s a lot going on in Washington to try to come up with a fiscal plan that would garner enough votes in both houses of Congress to raise the ceiling on the national debt.

A group of researchers at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia has come up with some good news for grandparents: Their grandchildren are safer with grandma or grandpa behind the wheel than they are when they are in a car driven by mom or dad.

Ethical questions can be thorny, and the ones regarding conflicts of interest can be the most complicated to answer, especially in a small state like Maine.

For the second week in a row, an unexpected outcome in a trial that attracted intense national coverage has drawn the public’s eyes to U.S. legal procedures.

In the wake of the deaths of 157 brave Canadian soldiers and the wounding of hundreds more, the U.S. Army officially took over Canada’s battle space in Kandahar.

Millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs have been sent overseas by corporations eager to utilize low-paid foreign workers. To resist this betrayal, Rep. Nick J. Rahall, D-W.Va., helped form the bipartisan Buy American Caucus in Congress to require the federal government to purchase American-made products as much as possible.

In a few days, a sleek-winged ship will drop out of the sky after spending nearly two weeks in space. It will glide to a runway — most likely in Florida.

There’s no sugarcoating it: The recent employment report was a disaster, with just 18,000 net jobs created in June. And there’s no reason to think the coming months will be any better.