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"A Bittersweet Season: Caring for Our Aging Parents — and Ourselves" (Knopf), by Jane Gross: Decades after screen star Bette Davis famously declared that "growing old is not for sissies," Estelle Gross expanded on the woes of the ailing aged with her lament that people live too long and die too slowly.
"Woodrow Wilson" (Knopf, 704 pages, $35), By John Milton Cooper Jr.: Soon after he was elected president in 1912, Woodrow Wilson told a former colleague at Princeton University that all of his preparation for office was in the domestic sphere and it would be "an irony of fate" if his administration were to be consumed by concerns over foreign policy.
Sen. Olympia Snowe, a key figure in shaping federal health care legislation, said Monday that a government-run plan that would take effect if the private insurance market fails to deliver affordable coverage could bridge the partisan divide that threatens to derail President Barack Obama's efforts to reform the system.
For the 17th year in a row, Israeli and Palestinian teenagers have come together at a summer camp in the western Maine woods to make new friendships, understand each other's dreams and fears, and possibly lay a groundwork for peace in the Middle East.
A woman who killed her abusive husband by stabbing him more than 25 times was sentenced Friday to seven months of jail time served and allowed to go free after a judge said she had already suffered enough.
In the state most dependent on heating oil, prices are now less than half of their peak last summer, an unprecedented plunge that spells good news for customers, dealers and the region's economy.
Thousands of lost jobs and a deep streak of independence have thrust Maine into the middle of the debate over President Barack Obama's economic stimulus package.
More than 50 years after her refusal to surrender her bus seat to a white woman set the stage for a similar act of defiance by Rosa Parks, Claudette Colvin is finally getting her due as a civil rights pioneer.
It's feeding time at Cobscook Bay's Broad Cove and the 25,000 salmon are hungry.
As an anti-Bush, anti-Republican wave swamps many of that party's House and Senate candidates, GOP Sen. Susan Collins — a moderate often at odds with the party — appears to be riding it toward a third term.
Voters whose bottom line is taxes can use a new online tool to calculate what their own bottom line would be with the IRS under a Barack Obama or John McCain administration.
People worried about the high cost of keeping warm this winter will draw little comfort from the Farmers' Almanac, which predicts below-average temperatures for most of the U.S.
The Navy has reversed course and decided to push for construction of a third stealth destroyer, Sen. Susan Collins said Monday.
An adult adoption involving lesbian partners and a claim to a share of a family fortune built on IBM has been annulled, bouncing the case to Maine's highest court.
Barbra Streisand, Mary Tyler Moore and Stephen King have a financial stake in Maine's high-profile U.S. Senate race. So does a founding member of the Grateful Dead and an actress who starred as a James Bond girl.
The Navy's newest guided missile destroyer was christened Saturday with the name of a fighter pilot who spent 7 1/2 years in captivity in North Vietnam, received the Medal of Honor and served as presidential candidate Ross Perot's running mate.
Glenn Close's signature characters have boiled a bunny, plotted the skinning of Dalmatian puppies and, more recently, helped arrange the killing of a pet dog to leverage a balky witness.
The low point in Kimberly Henderson's struggle to keep her family warm came in early January when she was too broke to order an oil delivery and had to buy a 5-gallon container to take to her dealer to get enough fuel to make it through the night.
Jonathan McCullum was in perfect health at 155 pounds when he left last summer to spend the school year as an exchange student in Egypt.
Beatrice Mayo practiced law in Maine for more than half a century before retiring in 1994. But she never spent a day in law school.
When newspaper editor Lou Ureneck took his teenage son Adam on a 110-mile river journey through the Alaskan wilderness in August 2000, he had more in mind than observing wildlife and catching salmon and Arctic char.
Nowhere in America, it seems, are people more apprehensive about the prospect of a $3-a-gallon winter than in Maine.
Physician-scientist Wilhelm Reich, best known for his claims of a cosmic life force associated with sexual orgasm, died in federal prison, and the government burned tons of his books and other publications and destroyed his equipment.
School officials on Thursday defended a decision to allow children as young as 11 to obtain birth-control pills at a middle-school health center, saying the new policy is aimed at a tiny number of sexually active students.
Chief Justice John Roberts won't have to worry about the bill for the ambulance ride after he suffered a seizure and fell at his island vacation home.
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