Cumberland County

A toddler is dead after an apparent family tragedy in Naples, Maine. Maine State Police say a 2-year-old boy was in the driveway of his family’s Lambs Mills Road home Saturday afternoon when he was fatally struck by a pickup truck that was pulling a camper trailer. According to state police, the boy’s dad was driving the truck, and...

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with abuse of a corpse, receiving stolen property and other charges after police say he allegedly tried to buy stolen human remains from an Arkansas woman for possible resale on Facebook. A spokeswoman for the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock confirmed that the remains were donated to UAMS’s facility but...

Deaths rates in Maine from COVID-19 are three times higher in the state’s less-vaccinated counties compared to counties that are heavily vaccinated, a newspaper reports. The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram analysis compared highly vaccinated coastal counties Cumberland, Lincoln and Sagadahoc with three counties that are not, Somerset, Piscataquis and Franklin counties. The widest difference was 2.23 COVID-19 deaths...

State and local police are asking for the public’s help locating a man from Naples, Maine, who has not been seen since Christmas Eve. As Maine State Police and the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office continue to investigate Mark Conley’s disappearance, the two agencies announced they will hold a joint news conference Monday. Authorities did not say what information they...