Ninety years ago this year, John Bapst High School opened in Bangor — named for Johannes Bapst, a Swiss Jesuit priest who came to Maine in the 1840s, oversaw the building of Bangor’s first Catholic Church, and later became the first president of Boston College. Read More
Susan Hunter will have a hard time staying away from the University of Maine, but she shouldn’t miss her desk. She didn’t spend too much behind it, anyhow. Read More
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has decided to delay changes for six months that addiction treatment agencies had said would threaten their operations in the middle of an opioid crisis. Read More
This is the story of how one woman turned the darkest time of her life — when she was being treated for a malignant brain tumor — into something positive. She was supported and inspired by someone special and now she is the one who is supporting and inspiring others. Read More
The Border Patrol said close to 200 people inside the facility were minors unaccompanied by a parent. Another 500 were "family units," parents and children. Read More
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol denied Monday that it owes the Maine ACLU a response to its request for records concerning citizenship checks at Maine bus stops. Read More
The owner of a head shop and former medical marijuana smoking lounge in downtown Bangor pleaded guilty Monday in U.S. District Court to a marijuana conspiracy charge and admitted trying to hide cash proceeds from bank regulators. Read More
“The thought that any state would seek to deter parents by inflicting such abuse on children is unconscionable,” said Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, a Jordanian prince. Read More
The bus line in a statement refuted the claim, saying that the "terminal employee was caught off guard with a question he was unprepared to answer." Read More
“It’s not every day a church celebrates its 200th anniversary,” said one fifth-generation parishioner present for the anniversary Mass at St. Denis Church in Whitefield on Sunday, June 10. Read More
The policy of separating immigrant children from parents who illegally cross the Mexican border threatens to balloon into an election-year headache for Republicans. Read More
A powerful earthquake hit the area around Osaka, the country's second-largest city of commerce, killing three people and injuring hundreds while knocking over walls and setting off fires. Read More
The SUV carrying 14 people went out of control at more than 100 mph and overturned on Texas Highway 85, ejecting most of the occupants, Dimmit County Sheriff Marion Boyd said. Read More
After an improbable cross-cultural journey that landed him in Maine, Abdi Nor Iftin is not only talking to Americans, he’s written about them, with his memoir set to come out this week. Read More
Two years later, the brief sit-down in Florida has resurfaced as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller III’s sprawling investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential campaign. Read More
