ELIOT, Maine (AP) _ Officials say three of five water samples tested at a Maine middle school contained elevated levels of E. coli. The Portsmouth …

Beer and wine bottle maker Owens-Illinois will pay about $2.15 billion to buy the food and beverage glass container business of the Mexican company Vitro. …

NEW YORK (AP) _ The NBA draft will be held at Barclays Center, the home of the Brooklyn Nets, on June 25. The league announced …

ATLANTA (AP) _ A German automaker has opened its North American headquarters in metro Atlanta. Porsche officials were joined by Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal and …

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) _ Toledo City Council has approved the $1.5 million purchase of 17 residential properties near the Jeep Wrangler plant as it continues …

ORANGE, N.J. (AP) _ A New Jersey school district has fired a teacher whose third-grade class wrote get-well letters to a sick prison inmate convicted …

PHILADELPHIA (AP) _ The first notice of appeal has been filed in an attempt to halt the planned $1 billion settlement of NFL concussion lawsuits. …

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) _ A legislative panel on Tuesday rejected a California soda tax, the latest loss for public health advocates seeking to cut down …

BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) _ The University of Vermont Board of Trustees plans to discuss a proposed 3.4 percent tuition increase for the 2016 academic year …

WEST PALM BEACH — Palm Beach County’s largest child welfare organization is working to recruit and train new foster families so children don’t have to …