Maine

A man has been arrested in connection to a homicide in Bridgton, Maine in November of last year. Maine State Police and Bridgton Police say they investigated the death of 51-year-old Benita Preo of Bridgton on November 25, 2023. An autopsy determined her dead as a homicide, authorities say. After an investigation, a grand jury indicted 48-year-old ...

Two people are dead following a head-on collision Thursday morning in Sebec, Maine. The Piscataquis County Sheriff’s Office says dispatch received calls around 7 a.m. reporting a two-vehicle accident on Milo Road, also called Route 6. There were three people involved, according to the sheriff’s office. The driver and a passenger in one ...

Alone, Cole Brauer braved three oceans and the elements as she navigated her sailboat for months. When she and her 40-foot sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old Boothbay, Maine, resident and New York native became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself, traveling across about 30,000 miles. Braue...

Brain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released and limited information about evidence of a brain injury in an Army reservist who killed 18 people last year in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting. Boston University researchers who analyzed a sample of Robert Card’s brain tissue said Wednesday they found evidence of t...

An Army reservist who served with a man who fatally shot 18 people in Maine last year and participated in the search for him after the killings on Thursday described the response to the tragedy as chaotic. Matthew Noyes told a special commission that is holding hearings into the Oct. 25 massacre that the search for the shooter was hampered…...

The brain of a gunman who killed 18 people and injured 13 others in Lewiston, Maine, showed signs of significant traumatic injury at the time of the mass shooting, researchers tasked with examining the tissue said.

This winter’s warm temperatures are making maple syrup season in Maine a bit more challenging than usual. “Maple producers across the state are approaching the sugaring season with a different perspective,” Lyle Merrifield, president of the association, told News Center Maine. Maine’s maple sugaring season usually spans abou...

The Supreme Court on Monday restored Donald Trump to 2024 presidential primary ballots, rejecting state attempts to hold the Republican former president accountable for the Capitol riot. The justices ruled a day before the Super Tuesday primaries that states, without action from Congress first, cannot invoke a post-Civil War constitutional provisio...

An emotional mother described freezing when she heard gunfire and then becoming separated from her daughter — not knowing whether she was dead or alive — during the deadliest shooting in Maine history. Tammy Asselin also had a message for lawmakers dealing with legislation in the aftermath of the Oct. 25 shootings, telling them to “put down your pa...

The parents and grandmother of a 10-year-old who died in Bangor, Maine, last month appeared before a judge Friday on charges in connection to the boy’s death, according to News Center Maine. Braxtyn Smith’s father, 33-year-old Joshua Smith, his mother, 35-year-old Jem Bean, and grandmother, 56-year-old Mistie Latourette, were all arrest...

While Americans lament the loss of good-paying manufacturing jobs, defense contractors are struggling to fill skilled positions that still exist in Maine and are key to the nation’s defense.

A federal judge is delaying the implementation of a voter-approved law in Maine that aimed to close an election law loophole by stopping foreign government spending on state referendum races.

The lobster industry, based mostly in Maine, has had an unprecedented decade in terms of the volume and value of the lobsters brought to the docks.

America’s lobster fishing business dipped in catch while grappling with challenges including a changing ocean environment and new rules designed to protect rare whales. The lobster industry, based mostly in Maine, has had an unprecedented decade in terms of the volume and value of the lobsters brought to the docks. But members of the industry...

The incident took place on United Flight 883, which was headed from Heathrow Airport to Newark Liberty International Airport.