The Lincoln Academy in Newcastle is offering a support room for high school students struggling emotionally with President Donald Trump’s landslide victory on Tuesday. The Maine Wire received an internal email from Kelly Duffy, the private school’s Director of Curriculum and Instruction in the Social Studies department. [RELATED: Donald J. Trump Elected as the 47th [...]The ...

WALLA WALLA A Washington State Department of Ecology spokesperson is updating the estimate of how much diesel fuel spilled near the Columbia River when a Union Pacific freight train derailed early Wednesday morning, south of Wallula.

According to the Maine Secretary of State, the votes for Maine’s Second Congressional District congressional race between incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep. Jared Golden and Republican State Rep. Austin Theriault were as follows: Golden: 196,189 (48.65%) Theriault: 194,030 (48.11%) Write-in Diana Merenda: 420 (0.10%) BLANK: 12,635 (3.13%) Due to the large number of ballots in which [...]

BEIJING/MANILA >> China summoned the Philippines’ ambassador on Friday to express its objection to two new laws in the Southeast Asian nation asserting maritime rights and sovereignty over disputed areas of the South China Sea, its foreign ministry said.

FARGO (KVRR) – The EDC volleyball tournament is set to help decide who will go to state this season. Four play-in matches will be played on Saturday while the quarterfinals are set to start on the 12th. EDC PLAY-INS: #9 Fargo South @ #8 Fargo North at 6:00 p.m. Saturday #12 Wahpeton @ #5 West Fargo at 1:00 p.m. Saturday...

Pahrump Valley football heads to the regional semifinals game against the No. 1 team in the league.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) The union that represents thousands of Philadelphia mass transit system workers has agreed to delay a strike that could have started Friday, saying progress was being made in ongoing contract talks.Transport Workers Union Local 234 members had voted last week to authorize a strike once their one-year contract with the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Aut...

Call it schadenfreude. Or, call it a healthy desire to witness just deserts. Either way, watching the world’s worst people wallow in their own well-earned misery gives one immense satisfaction. […]The post Watch: Nancy Pelosi Appears to Be Having a...

Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich spun an issue out of Joe Biden's calm and measured response to Donald Trump's win.

California progressives suffered a one-two punch in this year’s elections as two high-profile officials lost their re-elections. The first punch landed on election night when Los Angeles County District Attorney […]The post Progressive San Francisco Mayor Concedes Race t...

Russian forces have lost at least 61 of the attack helicopters since the start of the war, according to monitoring website Oryx.

"Detectives believe there are additional, unidentified victims of Matarico who have yet to come forward," the LAPD said.

“Democrats didn’t just lose badly,” Axios reports. “They lost to a convicted felon they ridiculed as a racist, misogynistic fascist and an existential threat to democracy.” “And they didn’t […]

Nov. 7—PHILADELPHIA — David McCormick, the Republican former hedge fund CEO, will get a chance to make good on his pledge to shake up Washington after riding a wave of broad Keystone State support for presidential nominee Donald Trump to defeat three-term incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey. The Republican had picked up 3,339,133 votes to Mr. Casey's 3,308,214, when the Associated Pres...

Called the Mountain Fire, the blaze was spreading rapidly, with towering flames that sent residents fleeing for safety.

Thousands of people were urged to flee an out-of-control wildfire burning around communities near Los Angeles on Thursday, with scores of homes already lost to the fast-moving flames.Fierce seasonal winds had cast embers up to three miles (five ...

Tori Spelling Thriller Lost in The Everglades Starts Production Vancouver-based John Production Group has announced the start of filming on thriller Lost in The Everglades, starringTori Spelling as a mother on a perilous search for her college-age daughter who goes missing during a Spring Break trip to Miami. Enlists the help of a rugged local […]

LOS ANGELES — Humanity’s heating of the planet, driven by the burning of fossil fuels and unchecked emissions of greenhouse gases, has become the main driver of worsening droughts in California and the American West, according to new research. A team of UCLA and NOAA scientists found that while droughts in the last century were caused mainly by decreases in precipitation through natura...

L.A.-area startups received $1.8 billion in the third quarter, the highest quarterly amount for the region, according to CB Insights. Most of it went to a single company.