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Lucinda Tyler and Aaron Raymo sit outside their home with fuel containers they used to fill their heating oil tank at their home, Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022 in Jay, Maine. The couple shopped around for the best prices and bought heating oil 5 gallons at a time throughout the summer whenever they had any extra money. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

U.S. heating worries mount amid growing costs, uncertainty

October 20, 2022 at 7:23 a.m.

Families are looking forward with dread as winter approaches with high energy costs and tight fuel supplies. The U.S. Department of Energy is projecting sharp price increases for home heating...

FILE – This handout photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows a common hypersonic glide body (C-HGB) launching from the Pacific Missile Range Facility, in Kauai, Hawaii, March 19, 2020, during a Department of Defense flight experiment. The department is working in collaboration with industry and academia to field hypersonic war-fighting capabilities. (Luke Lamborn/U.S. Navy via AP)

Ukraine war is backdrop in US push for hypersonic weapons

March 20, 2022 at 12:00 p.m.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Lagging behind Russia in developing hypersonic weapons, the U.S. Navy is rushing to field its first, with installation on a warship starting as soon as late...

Shippers prepare for another pandemic crush of holiday gifts

November 27, 2021 at 1:38 p.m.

Postal workers who recall packages piled up in distribution hubs are better prepared this time as they gear up for another pandemic crunch. But low product inventories, and port and...

Pandemic set off deadly rise in speeding that hasn鈥檛 stopped

August 8, 2021 at 2:02 p.m.

Motorists put the pedal to the metal during the pandemic and police are worried as roads get busy with the final stretch of summer travel.

Postal carrier Josiah Morse heads out ...

Weary postal workers hope Biden will bring new tone, change

February 7, 2021 at 9:12 a.m.

The U.S. Postal Service's stretch of challenges didn't end with the November general election and tens of millions of mail-in votes. The pandemic-depleted workforce fell further into a hole during...

Coronavirus pandemic leads to a bicycle boom, and shortage, around world

June 14, 2020 at 10:13 a.m.

Fitness junkies locked out of gyms, commuters fearful of public transit, and families going stir crazy inside their homes during the coronavirus pandemic have created a boom in bicycle sales...

Older states grapple with fear, isolation and medical care amid coronavirus pandemic

April 13, 2020 at 2:00 a.m.

This isn鈥檛 the way Betsy Steen and her husband wanted to spend their golden years: Hunkered down at home, living with fear and isolation.

Sen. Cory Gardner, GOP senators try to figure out how closely to run with Trump

January 20, 2019 at 1:30 p.m.

Republican Sen. Cory Gardner helped mastermind the GOP's midterm strategy of pushing Senate candidates closer to President Donald Trump. But heading into his own 2020 re-election bid in Colorado, he's...

Letters describe slugger Ted Williams’ service in Korean War

December 27, 2017 at 9:45 a.m.

Thirty-eight letters penned by Hall of Fame baseball player Ted Williams, including one in which he described crash-landing a fighter jet with "holes all over" it, are going up for...

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, speaks ...

L.L. Bean boosting production of iconic boot

August 20, 2017 at 2:11 a.m.

L.L. Bean hopes to give the boot to backlogs of its most iconic product.

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