Area schools each stand to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars under the cuts unveiled Friday.  Gov. John Baldacci ordered $38 million cut from the $1.2 billion sent to schools in aid this fiscal yea...

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine Labor Commissioner Laura Fortman says the state's jobless rate dropped by 0.3 percentage point in October to 8.2 percent October's rate also was 2 percentage points below the national ra...

ATLANTA (AP) - Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings makes it hard to predict what will happen next. The Centers for Diseas...