The vampires took the lead in pulling in moviegoers over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend, but far more money was made by studios catering to families, according to box office receipts.

Years after leaving the White House, Bill Clinton admitted that he missed his old job. “If it were up to me, I wouldn’t have left, but this is a democracy,” he said.

The Maine Legislature fought for years against the establishment of charter schools, a reform with a long track record in most other states.

Boston is the birthplace of the American Revolution. Along with neighboring Cambridge, it is home to some of the nation’s leading research universities and teaching hospitals. It’s where the Red Sox play their home games.

The Roman Catholic Church and its affiliated nonprofit organizations have every right to hold true to its religious convictions while doing good works. But when a nonprofit organizations, religious or not, is carrying out the government’s work with government money, it must to do so on the government’s terms.

The day after news leaked about Facebook’s plans for a blockbuster initial stock offering, the Federal Trade Commission announced a proposed consent order that would rein in the social network’s freewheeling approach to its users’ personal information.

The governors of Washington and Rhode Island are taking the lead in addressing a problem that also exists here in Maine. Gov. Paul LePage would do well to join the fight.

When Herman Cain told his staff Tuesday that he was doing a “reassessment” of his campaign after new accusations of adulterous behavior, many pundits saw it as the beginning of the end for the onetime GOP presidential front-runner.

There’s nothing new about the way Yarmouth Dr. Phillip Frederick practices medicine. In fact, it sounds kind of old fashioned.

Nothing puts a damper on prospects more than a down economy, and apparently that extends to the area of starting or expanding families.