In the midst of March Madness, the NCAA is pushing for states with legal wagering on sporting events to ban prop bets on college athletes. "Sports betting issues are on the rise across the country with prop bets continuing to threaten the integrity of competition and leading to ...
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, Vermont's first woman and first openly gay person to represent the state in Congress, announced Wednesday that she's running for a second term. Balint, a Democrat, said in Congress she has focused on making affordable housing more accessible, ...
BOSTON (AP) — She has crisscrossed the country saying she's an Irish heiress, a psychic and good friends with a movie star in order to run scores of scams, her victims say. But now Marianne Smyth is in a Maine jail awaiting a hearing next month that will decide whether she can be extradited ...
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine fishermen bucked yearslong, industrywide trends last year and caught more fish, a development regulators and industry members said shows the impact of COVID-19 relief funds. Maine has long been a leader in catching groundfish, which are bottom-dwelling species ...
BOSTON (AP) — A Rwandan man who authorities say killed people with a machete and raped women in the country's 1994 genocide before immigrating to the U.S. was indicted Tuesday by a federal grand jury in Boston. Eric Nshimiye, of Ohio, is accused of repeatedly lying about his involvement in ...
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A former top Rhode Island official agreed Tuesday to pay a $5,000 to settle an ethics fine for his behavior on a Philadelphia business trip last year. The Rhode Island Ethics Commission found David Patten violated the state's ethics code. Patten resigned last June ...
