David Sharp

A Massachusetts man shimmied down the chimney. But he wasn't filling up stockings. Fall River police say the man fled from detectives onto a rooftop by channeling “the essence of the seasonal icon” but ended up getting wedged inside a chimney Tuesday night.

Republican Austin Theriault has ended a recount, conceding to Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Golden in Maine.

While retailers hope to go big this holiday season, customers may notice that the catalogs arriving in their mailboxes are smaller.

The U.S. Navy is making progress in deploying its first shipborne hypersonic weapon. Workers at a Mississippi shipyard have finished installing missile tubes on the USS Zumwalt that will replace twin turrets from a gun system that was never activated because it was too expensive.

A Boston auctioneer is taking bidders out to the ballpark with an auction of a team executive’s Red Sox memorabilia — including four World Series trophies.

Gun rights advocacy groups are challenging Maine's 72-hour waiting period for gun purchases, arguing that it’s unconstitutional.

Independent Angus King has won a third term in the U.S. Senate representing Maine. King turned back challenges by a former Republican state party chair and a Democratic environmental activist.

Maine is testing the legal limits of restrictions on so-called super PACs. Voters on Election Day approved a referendum limiting donations to political action committees that spend independently in candidate elections, setting the stage for a legal showdown.

Maine schoolchildren know about the boy lost for more than a week on the state’s tallest mountain. Now the rest of the U.S. is getting in on the survival story from 1939.

Three Massachusetts utilities and a transmission line developer have agreed to pass along $512 million in added costs to Massachusetts ratepayers for an electric transmission project in western Maine.