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Police in a Maine town are investigating the discovery of two bodies in a residence. Maine State Police say local officers found the bodies of two adult males Tuesday morning after receiving a call to do a well-being check of two residents who live on High Street in Farmington. The state medical examiner’s office is scheduled to perform an...

A motorist was talking on her cellphone to her future wife when powerful winds blew a tree limb onto her car Monday and killed her, authorities said. Rochelle Hager, 31, of Waterville, was an executive chef who posted popular TikTok videos and was engaged to be married this fall. “It happened really quick,” Brittany Lynn Ritchie told the Morning Sentinel….

The day after state police spent hours at a Farmington property that was once owned by Fore Group, Inc., the company that was run by the estranged husband of missing mom Jennifer Dulos, an excavator was on the property. State police spoke briefly with the media Wednesday and said they do not have any updates. State police said Tuesday that…

A Rochester, New Hampshire hospital security officer that was assaulted in the parking lot died Friday.

One year later, Farmington, Maine is remembering a sudden moment of loss. On the morning of Sept. 16, 2019, a propane explosion destroyed a nonprofit’s office building there, killing a fire captain and injuring seven others inside. On Wednesday, Farmington firefighters, Maine Gov. Janet Mills and others from the local community gathered for a brief remembrance event in honor of…

The town of Farmington, Maine, looks back on the deadly explosion that leveled a nonprofit a year later.

A hometown hero is back after roughly seven months in rehab following a deadly explosion in September. Larry Lord, a maintenance worker credited with evacuating staff at the Life Enrichment Advancing People, or LEAP, building in Farmington, Maine, shortly before an explosion killed a firefighter and injured Lord and at least a half dozen other firefighters, has returned to his…

After seven months in rehabilitation, a maintenance worker badly hurt in a Maine building explosion returned home.

Jackson Laboratory in Farmington said will begin COVID-19 diagnostic testing next week, which the governor’s office said will help the State of Connecticut to test more people faster. The lab will not be testing patients, so people with symptoms should not respond to Farmington site to get tested. Officials from the lab said they will ramp up the speed...

A building supervisor credited with saving lives by evacuating a building before a deadly propane blast in Farmington is out of the hospital five months later. Larry Lord’s GoFundMe page reported Tuesday that he had been discharged from Massachusetts General Hospital and transferred to a rehabilitation center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, in Charlestown,  the Bangor Daily News reported. Lord helped...

The cause of a propane explosion that killed one Maine firefighter and severely injured others has been revealed. Fire Marshal Joe Thomas cited an augerhead used to drill a metal post into the ground as the source of a break in a line that caused gas to fill LEAP, a facility for the disabled in Farmington. “We want to find…

A propane line that was severed during construction caused a deadly explosion in Farmington, Maine.

Fotis Dulos has been released on bond and has returned to his Farmington home two days after he was arrested on murder charges in the death of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos. His girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, was also released and a source with direct knowledge of the case told NBC New York that she was transported to an area medical…

Fotis Dulos has been released on bond Thursday and one of his attorneys said he will be going home today, two days after being arrested of murder charges in the death of his estranged wife, Jennifer Dulos. His girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, is also expected to post bond and her attorney said she will be released today. Fotis Dulos intended to…

Fotis Dulos, the 52-year-old estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos, a New Canaan woman who has been missing for more than seven months, is due in court on Wednesday. He has been arrested and charged with murder, felony murder and kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of his wife. Fotis Dulos’ bond has been set at $6 million and he will…

The last of the firefighters to be released from the hospital after a deadly building explosion in Farmington, Maine, headed home on Tuesday. Capt. Scott Baxter left a rehabilitation center in Portland and was joined by a firefighter escort along the way home to Farmington.

The last firefighter who was injured in a propane explosion in Farmington, Maine, headed home Tuesday after being released from a rehab center.

A standout performer’s concert tour is making a swing through New England. And while she’s in the spotlight, she’s advocating for disability rights. “People with disabilities have value,” said Gaelynn Lea of Duluth, Minnesota, a singer and violinist. Lea’s music communicates both life’s joys and its sorrows to audiences around the nation.

A standout performer is preparing for a series of shows in New England while advocating for disability rights.

Officials in Maine revealed Friday that a leak in propane line was behind the Sept. 16 explosion that demolished a building in Farmington, killing one firefighter and injuring several other people. The State Fire Marshal’s Office said investigators found a significant leak in the line, which ran from the basement of a facility for disabled people to an outside propane...