Maine

A woman was killed and a man seriously hurt in a pileup that temporarily shut one side of the Maine Turnpike Friday morning, police said. A car being driven by a man from Boston hit a minivan and a pickup truck in Wells at about 8:41 a.m., sending the truck rolling across the road, Interstate 95, Maine State Police said….

Fellow U.S. Army reservists who witnessed the mental and physical decline of a colleague who would commit Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told a commission investigating the killings Thursday that they tried to intervene before the tragedy. Six weeks before Robert Card killed 18 people at a bar and bowling alley in Lewiston, his best friend and fel...

Police in Maine are searching for a Greenbush man who has been missing for several days. The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office says they received a missing person report on Thursday for 47-year-old Jeremy Hill, and deputies began investigating. Hill was reportedly last seen waring gray-colored clothing. He is 5’10, has brown hair and we...

A man allegedly robbed or threatened people at several different churches in Maine on Sunday morning before he led police on a chase and was later arrested. State police say it all started around 10:07 a.m. when a woman called 911 from a church parking lot at 213 Federal Road in Parsonsfield to say a man threatened to kill her….

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration is investigating international criminal organizations that are operating illegal marijuana grows in about 20 states, including Maine.

A Maine man convicted of killing a 12-year-old girl more than three decades ago launched his latest bid on Thursday for a new trial by trying to convince a judge that advances in DNA testing raise questions about his guilt. The attorney for Dennis Dechaine called his first witness at the start of a two-day hearing in Knox County Superior…...

An 11-year-old boy was killed when he crashed an all-terrain vehicle while riding on a neighbor’s property in the northern Maine town of Sangerville, wardens said. The neighbor went looking for the boy and found him unresponsive with the ATV on top of him at about 4:15 p.m. Tuesday, said Mark Latti, a spokesperson for the Maine Department of....

The Maine Legislature approved sweeping gun safety legislation including background checks on private gun sales, waiting periods for gun purchases and criminalizing gun sales to prohibited people before adjourning Thursday morning, nearly six months after the deadliest shooting in state history. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and the Democratic-led Le...

A woman accused by scam victims of criscrossing the U.S. claiming to be an Irish heiress is expected to learn next month whether she will be extradited to the United Kingdom. Marianne Smyth, a 54-year-old American, appeared Wednesday in federal court in Maine for a hearing related to allegations that she stole more than $170,000 from at least five ...

Maine will become the latest to join a multistate effort to elect the president by popular vote with the Democratic governor’s announcement Monday that she’s letting the proposal become law without her signature. Under the proposed compact, each state would allocate all its electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote for p...

A series of gun safety bills introduced after the deadliest shooting in Maine history appears to be headed toward final passage as the state Legislature races to wrap up its session this week. The House followed the Senate on Monday in approving the governor’s omnibus gun safety bill that strengthens the state’s yellow flag law, boosts ...

L.L. Bean will be laying off several customer service workers and shrinking call center hours, according to NBC affiliate News Center Maine. “As more of our customers choose self-service and shop through our digital and retail channels, customer contacts have declined over the last four years,” the company said in an announcement last w...

The proposal is designed to make it easier for social workers to practice in new states.