PORTLAND — The mother of a toddler missing since December says she was in denial for three months but has come to accept the heart-wrenching possibilities of what may have happened to her daughter, whose whereabouts remain unknown as her second birthday approaches. Trista Reynolds says she continues to pray for Ayla’s safe return but […]

SCARBOROUGH — The disappearance of a Scarborough teen’s customized wheelchair was apparently a big misunderstanding. Chris Fitzgerald says his wheelchair went missing last week from a neighbor’s driveway. His mother often leaves it there when she works late so he can use it for the quarter-mile trip home because Chris can’t walk that far. The […]

PORTLAND — The winter’s warm air temperatures have helped drive up water temperatures in the Gulf of Maine, in line with a continuing trend, and the warm waters could result in lobsters molting their shells earlier than usual and ocean algae blooming ahead of schedule. In the long run are questions around how rising ocean […]

PORTLAND — The newly named manager of a campaign seeking to legalize same-sex marriage in Maine said he expects the campaign to spend more than $5 million ahead of November’s election. The Maine Freedom to Marry Coalition announced Tuesday it has created a political action committee called Mainers United for Marriage to spearhead the campaign […]

PORTLAND — Maine’s highest court has ruled that parents of a 25-year-old woman who committed suicide while living at their house were not legally obligated to prevent her from killing herself. In Tuesday’s unanimous ruling, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that James and Jadzia Davies of Norway did not have a legal duty to […]

AUGUSTA — Using rhetoric rarely heard in the Maine State House, Democrats accused the Republican administration of lying and covering up information about malfunctioning computers that resulted in as many as 19,000 people erroneously receiving MaineCare. “It is time for the administration to first, take responsibility for their mismanagement and second, and most importantly, take […]

Maine was the most rural state in the nation in 2010, according to new data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The nationwide trend was toward a growth in urban populations. According to the new data, 61.3 percent of Maine’s population lived in rural areas. “Rural areas” are all those that aren’t classified as “urban.” The […]

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Public opinion on the national health care law played no role in the decision to have Maine join the 25 other states challenging the national health care law that’s before the U.S. Supreme Court this week, state Attorney General William Schneider said Monday. “Honestly, for me, it’s a matter of principle. […]