THE effectiveness of a police service is a cornerstone of any stable and democratic society. Beyond enforcing laws, the police embody the social contract between the state and its citizens, where law ...

To the Editor; Penobscot County Commissioners want to spend tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money for a new and bigger jail. They ...

An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states ...

Oversight was loosened as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before the floods, a review found.

After weeks of pressuring members of Congress into supporting his signature domestic policy legislation, Donald Trump has ...