A former student is going to prison for at least five years after he pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of alcohol in a Manchester crash that killed a Chinese student.

Officials in Portland say they welcome Gov. John Baldacci's proposal for an $8 million deep-water cruise ship berth in the city's harbor.

The town of Williston is giving the green light to plans for a new large church at Taft Corners.

Connecticut officials say they're trying to find a bear that wounded an alpaca during an attack outside a Simsbury home.

The age of live horse racing at New Hampshire's Rockingham Park is over. Rockingham Park President Edward M. Callahan says the decision to limit the location to simulcast thoroughbred, harness and greyhound racing came because of increased fees imposed by the state.

Christians and Muslims once shared their lives together in Nigeria's fertile central belt, buying each other's goods in mixed neighborhoods and cultivating each other's farms across a sun-baked plateau.

Two men with criminal records are facing federal charges they tried to buy handguns in Maine so they could be resold illegally without serial numbers in Massachusetts.

Ukrainian lawmakers formed a new coalition around new President Viktor Yanukovych, and allowed him to consolidate power by quickly approving his choice for prime minister.

Mozambican authorities say about 800 people are trapped by rising floodwaters and in need of rescue.

A 76-year-old Connecticut woman is blaming a stuck gas pedal after her Toyota Camry went out of control, struck the front steps of a New Britain church and sailed down a flight of stairs.

Economic output in Latvia, one of the European Union's most troubled economies, fell a staggering 18 percent last year, the statistics agency said Thursday.

Economic output in Estonia contracted by 14.1 percent in 2009, the worst performance since 1991 as the Baltic country struggled to emerge from a deep recession, officials said Thursday.

Irish police have received three more days to interrogate seven Muslims over alleged links to a plot to assassinate Swedish artist Lars Vilks.

The campaign manager for former U.S. Rep. Chris Shays is expected to plead guilty to charges of embezzling campaign funds.

President Barack Obama speaks at a banking conference Thursday, holds more meetings on health care and gets a look at a new TV series about World War II.

The Vermont Labor Relations Board is expected to hear a grievance filed by the faculty union at the University of Vermont that claims the school is paying female professors less than their male counterparts.

A funeral Mass will take place in the central Maine town of Madison for the late Mary Josephine Ray, who was the oldest living American when she died on Sunday.

German vehicle group Daimler AG says its received an order for 239 buses from public transit authorities on the Italian island of Sardinia.