Maine might join a growing number of states that require cage-free facilities for chickens that lay eggs for commercial consumption
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General Motors leaving Australia, New Zealand and Thailand
The move will not affect GM’s U.S. operations, a spokesman says.
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Museum’s Rembrandt knockoff turns out to be the real thing
A nearly 400-year-old painting that had long been attributed to someone in his workshop has now been judged a work of the Dutch master himself.
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Former UAW President Owen Bieber dies at 90
He led the United Auto Workers union from the industry’s dark days of the early 1980s to the prosperity of the mid-1990s.
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Girls basketball: Winthrop, Boothbay top balanced C South bracket
Ramblers hope for deep run as No. 1 seed, but Seahawks, Old Orchard Beach, NYA pose threats.
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LGBT bereavement groups give support for unacknowledged loss
Groups specifically geared to the LGBT community are a recent phenomenon even in Massachusetts, where same-sex marriage was legalized in 2004.
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Referendum aims to restore vaccine opt-outs in Maine
Debate is intensifying over a referendum aimed at reversing a law that eliminates religious and philosophical exemptions for childhood vaccinations
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Video: Gardiner junior Bailey Poore on win over Medomak
Poore scores 13 points as the second-seeded Tigers eliminate the Panthers.
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Maine’s rural school districts to lose $1.2 million with federal program change
The U.S. Department of Education has determined that free- and reduced-lunch numbers cannot be used as a basis for awarding federal Title V grant money for low-income rural schools.
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Reworked charges in Chicago cite another R. Kelly accuser
An updated federal indictment against the singer includes sex abuse allegations involving a girl.