Houlton council formalizes its bid for a new multimillion-dollar county jail, including the location

“There's really no other viable option to keeping [the jail] in Houlton,” said Town Councilor Fred Grant.

Camp Mystic faces a criminal investigation that could include manslaughter or negligent homicide charges in the deaths of 27 girls amid devastating flooding in Texas last year, court documents show. In applications for search warrants…

A 3D-printed boat manufactured at UMaine figured in ProPublica's report on a scuttled FBI anti-corruption investigation into the Republican senator.

The ProPublica story brought to light an FBI investigation into an alleged pay-to-play relationship between Collins and a defense contractor.

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — It’s killer robots versus super intelligence. Visions of the future straight out of comic books are playing out at the United Nations as world leaders talk about the threat — or promise — of artificial intelligence.…

DALLAS (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered Texas to install air conditioning in all of its prisons, saying that inmates in lockups without it are being given punishments that violate their constitutional rights. U.S. District Judge…

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A 36-year-old Costa Rican man whose family says he complained of missing insulin shots and meals to manage his diabetes is the third detainee to die in less than six months at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to intervene in a custody dispute over a 5-week-old child who was born in Texas after a surrogate refused a California couple’s wishes to have an abortion. Justice Elena…