Stories about Nation
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation.SpaceX capsule docks at International Space Station
From wire reports on May 25, 2012, at 10:04 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — About 250 miles above northwest Australia, a cargo-carrying space capsule linked up with the International Space Station, marking the first time a privately built and operated vehicle has ever docked at the orbiting outpost. Astronauts on the space station plan to enter the capsule Saturday and take ...
Edwards jurors break for holiday with no verdict
By Anne Blythe, McClatchy Newspapers on May 25, 2012, at 9:38 p.m.
GREENSBORO, N.C. — The jury deliberating the John Edwards case broke Friday for a long holiday weekend with no verdict and no indication of how close together or far apart they are on any of the six counts. Shortly before sending the jury home, Judge Catherine Eagles closed the public ...
Woman in Oregon with possible Maine ties remains unidentified
BANGOR, Maine — Despite a media blitz earlier this week, a woman who turned up in Oregon last week lost and confused and who may have ties to Maine remains unidentified, a detective with the Linn County Sheriff’s Department said Friday evening. Who she is, where she came from and ...
Former Berwick man sentenced in NH bank robbery
The Associated Press on May 25, 2012, at 6:53 p.m.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — A Massachusetts man has been sentenced to 37 months in federal prison for holding up a bank in Portsmouth, N.H., last summer by telling the clerk he had a bomb. Forty-nine-year-old Thomas Gould of Chelsea, Mass., pleaded guilty on Friday in the July robbery of the Citizens ...
Rhode Island governor: Schilling company again in violation
The Associated Press on May 25, 2012, at 6:53 p.m.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Gov. Lincoln Chafee on Friday said former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling’s video gaming company is again in violation of a loan guarantee agreement with Rhode Island after it failed to notify state officials of mass layoffs, and that he’ll seek an audit of the company’s finances. ...
DNA on beer can needle ‘likely’ belongs to Clemens
By Joseph White, The Associated Press on May 25, 2012, at 6:51 p.m.
WASHINGTON — A needle stored with a beer can appeared to contain an extremely tiny amount of Roger Clemens’ DNA, which turned out to be good news and bad news for both sides in the perjury trial of the seven-time Cy Young Award winner. A forensic scientist on Friday linked ...
Customs incident over $1.74 duty heading to Canadian federal court
ST. STEPHEN, New Brunswick — A Massachusetts attorney has been at odds with the Canadian government since last August, when she claims she was “bullied” by a New Brunswick border patrol agent who she wants reprimanded. She also wants her record cleared of any border crossing violation that could affect ...
Nuked and duped: Maine may store nuclear waste for decades
As politicians dither over a permanent repository for America’s radioactive waste, costs are mounting at closed nuclear power plants such as Maine Yankee, where approximately $8 million is spent each year safeguarding the spent nuclear fuel stored onsite. New security measures under review by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission could force ...
$500 or $50 co-pay? Mass. Blue Cross Blue Shield offers a choice
By Sarah Kliff, The Washington Post on May 25, 2012, at 5:52 a.m.
The health plan is experimenting with a novel attempt to reduce the cost of health care without sacrificing quality.
Brunswick woman nominated for top Navy Reserve post says she’s just ‘part of the team’
By BETH BROGAN, Times Record on May 24, 2012, at 9:20 p.m.
BRUNSWICK, Maine — A Brunswick woman has been nominated by President Barack Obama for promotion to vice admiral and chief of the Navy Reserve. Rear Adm. Robin R. Braun, deputy director of the European Plans and Operations Center at U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Germany, said Tuesday while home on ...
Buffett says his firm likely to buy newspapers
By JOSH FUNK, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 9:16 p.m.
OMAHA, Neb. — Warren Buffett says his company is likely to buy more newspapers in the next few years, and Berkshire Hathaway will not try to influence the editorial policies of any of them. Buffett wrote a memo this week to the editors and publishers of all of Berkshire’s daily ...
New Orleans Times-Picayune cuts paper publication to 3 days a week
By Michael Muskal, Los Angeles Times (MCT) on May 24, 2012, at 9:14 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — The New Orleans Times-Picayune will move to a three-day-a-week print schedule in the fall, becoming the largest metropolitan newspaper to cut back paper publication in what has increasingly become an electronic world of information. The paper, owned by Advance Publications Inc., also announced the formation of the ...
Berkeley chief defends search for son’s iPhone
The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 9:13 p.m.
BERKELEY, Calif. — A California police chief is once again under scrutiny, this time for using 10 officers — some on overtime — to search for his teenage son’s stolen iPhone. Berkeley Police Chief Michael Meehan told the Oakland Tribune that no preferential treatment was given when officers, including three ...
Ohio hospital settles lawsuit over fetuses in jars
By BARBARA RODRIGUEZ, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 9:10 p.m.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio hospital reached a proposed lawsuit settlement of about $1 million with women who said they were emotionally distressed to learn a former employee had stuffed their miscarried or stillborn fetuses into jars for years — citing her religious beliefs — and kept them in hospital ...
AWOL Muslim soldier guilty in Fort Hood bomb plot
By ANGELA K. BROWN, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 9:09 p.m.
WACO, Texas — A federal jury on Thursday convicted a Muslim soldier on six charges in connection with a failed plot to blow up a Texas restaurant full of Fort Hood troops, his religious mission to get “justice” for the people of Iraq and Afghanistan. Jurors in U.S. District Court ...
Unabomber embarrasses, angers Harvard Class of ’62
By Rene Lynch, Los Angeles Times on May 24, 2012, at 9:07 p.m.
LOS ANGELES — As the Harvard Class of 1962 prepared to gather this week, many alumni updated their profiles — no doubt proud to share their accomplishments of the last 50 years. Theodore Kaczynski did so as well. But many believe he had a different motive: They say the man ...
Senate panel approves $631 billion defense bill
By DONNA CASSATA, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 9:05 p.m.
WASHINGTON — A Senate panel on Thursday rejected the Pentagon’s proposed cuts in personnel and equipment for the Air National Guard as it completed a far-reaching, $631 billion defense budget for next year. Republicans and Democrats on the Armed Services Committee unanimously backed the budget, which called for the same ...
Graduation week tough on mother of player who died on basketball court
By Noah Trister, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 9:04 p.m.
For Jocelyn Leonard, the pain can be difficult to bear — especially during a week like this. Jocelyn is the mother of Wes Leonard, the Michigan high school basketball player who died last year immediately after making a game-winning shot. On Thursday night, Leonard’s class at Fennville High School was ...
Women’s clinics on alert after fires, burglaries in Atlanta area
By Andria Simmons, The Atlanta-Journal Constitution on May 24, 2012, at 9:04 p.m.
ATLANTA — Heightened fears over burglaries and fires targeting abortion and obstetrical clinics around Atlanta have triggered heightened security across the country. The FBI, which is leading a joint investigation, is looking at the cases as possibly domestic terrorism or civil rights violations based on federal laws against intimidation, according ...
Onetime top Calif. football prospect exonerated
By Linda Deutsch, The Associated Press on May 24, 2012, at 9:02 p.m.
LONG BEACH, Calif. — A former high school football star whose dreams of a pro career were shattered by a rape conviction burst into tears Thursday as a judge threw out the charge that sent him to prison for more than five years. Brian Banks, now 26, pleaded no contest ...
Glenburn art teacher killed in Friday morning collision in Bangor
Harvard student asked to leave bar for ‘bad behavior,’ not drunkenness
LePage blasts teachers union for endorsing same-sex marriage question
Reporting crime
A people’s revolt in Bar Harbor
Old Town football coach steps down
Perakslis helps UMaine beat Albany; Binghamton next in America East tournament
Orono baseball shuts out archrival Old Town for ninth straight victory
Stony Brook knocks out UMaine to win America East tournament
Aroostook businessman expands company out of home with hit mobile app 7 Little Words
Small idea launches major project in Hampden
Former CEO of MaineToday Media Richard Connor sued over $250,000 in loans
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
New, old methods combine to deter scrap metal thefts in Aroostook
Gary Allan talks with the BDN leading up to Bangor concert
Mid Coast Actor’s Studio provides new forum for classic plays
Signs lead artist to opportunity
Bangor Daily News
Account
Start a blog
Post News
Post Events
See it. Fix it.
Subscribe