CLERMONT, Fla. (AP) – Leaflets depicting President Obama in ghoulish makeup similar to that of the Joker from the Batman movie, “The Dark Knight,” have popped up in a Florida county northwest of Orlando. Some of the fliers were glued to a mail box at a U.S. Post Office in downtown Clermont in Lake County, […]

NEW LONDON, Conn. (AP) – The family of a teenager who says he was sexually assaulted by a former dean of a Connecticut prep school has filed a lawsuit. The lawsuit was filed Monday in Superior Court against The Gunnery school, 44-year-old former dean Robert Reinhardt, Head of School Susan Graham and Dana Jackson, a […]

BOSTON (AP) – Boston officials are hoping to reach a final decision with a Canadian company to create what would be the largest, urban bike-sharing system in the U.S. Officials are in talks with the Public Bike System Company in Montreal to install a network of 2,500 bikes and 290 stations across the city by […]

CHICAGO (AP) – The case of a puppy that used to have five legs and was saved from a Coney Island animal show is going before a court TV judge in Chicago. Plaintiff John Strong operates a New York animal show that features disfigured animals. He’s suing the dog’s original owner, Calvin Owensby, for $4,000. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is halting its search for World War I-era chemical weapons in a Washington, D.C., neighborhood after workers found an open glass flask containing traces of the chemical agent mustard. The discovery was made last week at a vacant home behind American University, where chemical weapons were […]

HYANNIS, Mass. (AP) – A public wake for Eunice Kennedy Shriver has been scheduled for a Cape Cod church. A family spokesman says the wake will be held Thursday from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in the Centerville section of Barnstable, not far from the family’s Hyannis […]

BANGOR, Maine (AP) – A Maine carpenter who admitted to police that he shot his best friend in the back of the head has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. Fifty-year-old Joseph Dumas could have faced up to life in prison for killing 70-year-old Mario “Sony” Litterio near a camp where Dumas was working. […]

CUSHING, Maine (AP) – The Maine Marine Patrol’s stepped up surveillance following lobster turf wars that erupted in a shooting on Matinicus Island has led to an arrest. Maj. John Fetterman says a lobsterman from Cushing was given a summons Tuesday after he was observed cutting 22 traps lines belonging to a competitor. Fetterman says […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – A new study shows family health care premiums have grown more than four times faster than income this decade in Maine. Families USA said Wednesday health insurance premiums rose by 101 percent, while median earnings rose by only 22 percent from 2000 to 2009. Ron Pollack, executive director, says health care […]

ATLANTA (AP) – A civil rights icon who worked alongside the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and helped lead the Montgomery bus boycott is headed to Washington to receive the Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. The Rev. Joseph Lowery, 87, delivered the benediction at Obama’s inauguration in January and now joins 15 others […]