A Falmouth couple faces criminal charges, and the rest of Maine is being reminded of a message that everyone should have gotten a long time ago.

Too many Americans are still out of work to justify cuts to the food stamp program. Democrats and Republicans banded together in the Senate to defeat an amendment by Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., to slash spending on the program nearly in half.

Maine’s emerging technology economy took another kick in the teeth Monday, when Betsy Biemann unceremoniously vanished from her post as president of the Maine Technology Institute.

Is religious freedom suddenly under attack in America? That’s what the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops and some non-Catholic allies would have you believe. But reports of the demise of this fundamental liberty are greatly exaggerated.

The residents of Middleborough, Mass., have had enough. In a state with a storied history of Puritan-inspired prohibitions, they voted 183-50 in a town meeting last week to approve a proposal that would, among other things, impose a $20 fine on public profanity, First Amendment be damned.

Every operation that expects to succeed needs a person who speaks the painful truth to power at great personal or professional risk.

Mitt Romney is partly right in his criticism of President Barack Obama’s executive order to stop the deportation of as many as 800,000 undocumented immigrants: It doesn’t go far enough.

Is there nothing the international community can do to stop the bloodshed in Syria?

They’re pretty easy to spot. They’re either going way too fast or way too slow.

Americans won’t vote for president for almost five months, but we already seem to be in the thick of the presidential campaign.