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Year-end statistics showed that international passengers increased by nearly 8 percent from the previous year -- 9.14 million to 9.86 million.

A sleepy corner of the country became hotly contested in this year's roller-coaster GOP primary, and Mitt Romney squeaked past Ron Paul by less than 200 votes.

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- During the final debate last week, Barack Obama called John McCain on the negative ads, saying that 100 percent of his radio and television ads were negative.

BANGOR, Maine - Bishop Richard J. Malone on Friday called President Barack Obama's announcement that religious employers would not have to provide free birth control coverage under his health care plan a step in the right direction, but stopped short of endorsing it.

He is the only one of the four contenders for the Republican presidential nomination not to have won a state primary or caucus.

It is perhaps another sign of rightward drift from two of the few moderates left in the tea-party influenced Republican Party.

Three senators are expected to introduce a long-awaited cybersecurity bill next week that will overhaul the way the government protects critical networks, Federal Times reported.

The federal government gave Maine State Housing Authority high marks for administering the Section 8 program, according to a statement from MSHA.

After reversing a decision to stop funding the country's leading abortion provider, Komen is now going to have a hard time avoiding politics.

The U.S. Postal Service announced Thursday that it lost $3.3 billion in the first three months of the fiscal year as the agency continues to hemorrhage money.

The possibility of another go-round for the BRAC process comes as no surprise. The revival as early as 2015 of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission has been mentioned previously in our editorials.

More than $270,000 in federal funding announced Wednesday for the Fayette Fire Department is the largest grant the small force has ever received and will help buy new equipment.

Congress failed to pass a new federal law last year requiring the litany of companies affected by data breaches - from gaming giant Sony to shoe e-tailer Zappos - to notify consumers.

Early wedding gift: Last week's announcement by U.S. Sen. Susan Collins that's she's engaged to be married was handled by the Maine media with the same timidity that's been the hallmark of coverage of the state's congressional delegation dating back several decades.

Maine's Republican Party decided to switch things up this election year in order to grab some national attention from both the media and presidential candidates.

Peter Rogers said Wednesday he came onboard in July to help set up Gov. Paul LePage's office of communications and never intended for it to be a long-term job.

Inspectors searching for shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles amassed by Moammar Gadhafi and prized by terrorists can't account for potentially thousands of them.

Republican leaders in Congress are talking about dismembering the U.S. Postal Service by cutting the number of delivery days, shuttering processing centers so that it will take longer for letters to arrive, closing thousands of rural and inner-city post offices and taking additional steps that would dramatically downsize one of the few national ... (more)

BLOOMSBURG, Pa. -- During the final debate last week, Barack Obama called John McCain on the negative ads, saying that 100 percent of his radio and television ads were negative.

American Airlines recently completed a radical makeover of its lobby at Los Angeles International Airport , a project that eliminated the counters that separate ticket agents from long lines of passengers.