Farmington

On Saturday, the first day of 2022, a new law goes into effect in Maine that lawmakers hope will protect people from tragedy and destruction. The state will require fuel gas detectors in certain buildings more than two years on from a deadly explosion in Farmington, Maine, that claimed the life of a firefighter, injured more than six other people…

A deadly explosion in Farmington, Maine, has prompted a new fuel gas detector mandate more than two years later.

Four colleges in Massachusetts and one in Maine are teaming up to fight climate change in a unique way. They’re all buying solar power together from what’s believed to be the largest solar project in New England. The effort is called the New England College Renewable Partnership and its participating institutions include Bowdoin, Smith, Hampshire and Williams colleges. Together,...

Two lawsuits filed in the aftermath of a thunderous propane explosion in Farmington, Maine, that killed a firefighter and injured others have been settled. A court document filed this week indicates a lawsuit against two companies on behalf of the deceased firefighter and six injured firefighters was resolved, the Sun Journal reported. Another lawsuit brought by the maintenance worker who...

The National Transportation Safety Board has released its preliminary report on the investigation into a plane crash in Farmington that killed four people and injured four others earlier this month. The plane, a Cessna 560, was heading from Robertson Field Airport in Plainville to Dare County Regional Airport in Manteo, North Carolina when it crashed into the Trumpf production facility…

Part of Boston’s medical community was mourning Friday after a married couple — both doctors with local ties — were identified as two of the people who died when a small jet crashed in Connecticut Thursday. Courtney Haviland, 33, and William Shrauner, 31, left behind a young son and were expecting another baby, according to authorities and their family.  “They just...

A married couple, both doctors in Boston who were expecting a baby, died when a small plane crashed in Connecticut Thursday.

A pilot from Bristol, a pilot from Danbury and a couple from Boston were killed in a plane crash in Farmington Thursday.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) is expected to be in Farmington today to begin their investigation into what caused a deadly plane crash Thursday morning. Four people, two pilots and two passengers, died after the Cessna Citation 560X business jet crashed into the Trumpf production facility on Hyde Road around 10 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Police…

Four people have died after a plane crash in Farmington, according to police. The plane, a Cessna Citation 560X business jet, crashed into a building on Hyde Road around 10 a.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Police said two pilots and two passengers were on the plane. The plane departed from Robertson Field Airport in Plainville and was headed…

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...