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The Department of Health and Human Services has suspended the license of a Sanford day care while it is under investigation, but the owner says she closed the business because she is retiring.
The license for Faye’s Family Day Care has been suspended for 10 days pending the outcome of the investigation, according to the department. A department official said no information about the nature of the investigation is available because it is ongoing.

Every so often Emily Buker pauses in her busy day to reflect on how much her life has changed in the last year.
The 28-year-old woman who nine months ago was homeless, unemployed, addicted to drugs, committing crimes to support her habit and hanging out with the wrong crowd now is clean, sober, working and getting her life back together.

The federal government has approved a request by the Maine Bureau of Insurance to relaunch its $93 million reinsurance program, which will help reduce premiums for individual insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace.
On Monday, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services granted a waiver that permits the state to diverge from the normal rules set up by the ACA for insurance. The CMS waiver will be effective from 2019 through 2023. Maine previously had operated a reinsurance program, but it was shelved in 2013 after the ACA went into effect.

LEWISTON — Patrick Dempsey is not asking people to donate money to him, or to his Dempsey Centers cause through his social media accounts, the actor tweeted Monday.
Dempsey tweeted it has come to his attention “that people have been impersonating me and asking my fans for money (through social media). Please do not ever talk to, or give money to anyone saying it is me. My official profile has a blue circle with a check mark.”
Dempsey asked his fans to report any fake pages to Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge has blocked the public availability of blueprints that provide instructions for making guns using 3-D printers, just hours before the documents were expected to be published online.
U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik granted a temporary restraining order Tuesday night barring a trove of downloadable information about creating the do-it-yourself weapons.

Canada has been rebuffed in recent attempts to engage on the North American Free Trade Agreement with U.S. trade representative Robert Lighthizer amid talks between the Trump administration and Mexico, according to three people with knowledge of the negotiations.

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration says people would drive more and be exposed to increased risk if their cars get better gas mileage, an argument intended to justify freezing Obama-era toughening of fuel standards.
Transportation experts dispute the arguments, contained in a draft of the administration’s proposals prepared this summer, excerpts of which were obtained by the Associated Press.
Revisions to the mileage rules for 2021 through 2026 are still being worked on, the administration says.

Your social calendar might be sucking the joy out of activities that are supposed to be fun or relaxing, according to an upcoming paper co-written by a professor who studies time management.
The paper argues that when a leisure activity is planned rather than spontaneous, we enjoy it less.
That’s because we tend to mentally lump all our scheduled activities in the same bucket and it makes the pleasurable activities more of a chore.

EDDINGTON — Maine game wardens have recovered the body of a boater who had been missing since he tried to help a swimmer in a pond.
The Maine Warden Service said the call came in Monday night, reporting that a 54-year-old man went into Chemo Pond in Eddington to help a struggling swimmer and never resurfaced. WGME-TV reported that the body was found early Tuesday in about 20 feet of water.
Authorities say they found the body by using an underwater drone device.
The name of the victim has not been released.