Dechaine has been serving a life sentence for the killing of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry in 1988, and is asking for a new trial based on DNA test evidence released two years ago.

Under the newly passed legislation, Maine's Child Development Services (CDS) offices would remain open, but responsibility for students aged three to five would be transferred to local school districts over four years.

The chief of the Augusta Fire Department said several departments responded after a passerby reported seeing heavy fire around 12:30 a.m. Friday.

As a child with Bulgarian heritage on her fathers' side, Stancioff recalls the powerful presence of Balkan folk music in her early life, sung acapella by women using multiple dissonant harmonies. And now, at the age of 30, she says that music still has an influence on her own songwriting.

A bill that would have established minimum staff ratios was rejected by state lawmakers. Nurses who said they're under-staffed and overworked are disappointment by the outcome, but said they will continue to push for change.

Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted overwhelmingly to unionize with the UAW, setting a new trajectory for labor unions in the American South.

The modern study of starvation was sparked by the liberation of concentration camp survivors. U.S. and British soldiers rushed to feed them — and yet they sometimes perished.

Stereophonic, a new play on Broadway with music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, tracks the volatile creation of a rock and roll album over the course of a year in the 1970s.

Israel and Iran seem to be downplaying the attack, the latest in a series of retaliatory strikes between the two. Analysts say that could be a sign of the de-escalation world leaders are calling for.

The Jinx ended with Robert Durst, a wealthy man suspected of multiple murders, making self-incriminating statements on a hot mic. Part Two picks up where the original left off: arrest and conviction.