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Domestic assault suspect breaks one trooper's leg, bites another during struggle
A suspect in a domestic assault in Maine is facing multiple charges after he allegedly broke one state trooper’s leg and bit another during a struggle with police over the weekend. State police said they were called to Long Street in Limerick shortly before 11 p.m. Saturday for a report of a domestic assault in progress. A neighbor had...
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Police investigating after body was found floating in Maine's Casco Bay
Police are investigating after a man’s body was found floating in Casco Bay in Portland, Maine, on Saturday. The man’s body was spotted floating in the bay by a woman on a Casco Bay Lines ferry that was traveling from Peaks Island to Portland, according to News Center Maine. The captain of the ferry contacted police and kept the...
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75-year-old man critically injured in Maine fire
A 75-year-old Bangor, Maine, man was critically injured in a house fire Thursday. The Fire Marshal’s Office said Bangor firefighters responded to a residential fire on Ohio Street in Bangor shortly after noon Thursday. One of the occupants, a 75-year-old man whose name has not been released, was rescued from the home and taken to Eastern Maine Medical Center...
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Family of 8-year-old Mass. boy killed in Maine crash expected to survive
The younger brother and father of an 8-year-old Massachusetts boy killed in a crash in Maine over the weekend are expected to survive, police say. “There have been a number of requests for an update relating to this past weekend’s tragic fatal motor vehicle crash which claimed the life of an 8-year old boy. As of last report I...
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Mass. boy, 8, killed in Maine crash; younger brother, dad critically injured
Rumford Police say they responded to a 911 call about a crash in the vicinity of 1125 U.S. Route 2 at around 3:13 p.m.
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Man arrested in connection to homicide in Bridgton, 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 Eric Knight of…
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Route 1-stop shop: Where to grab lobster rolls, local beer and more entering Maine
Maine Beer Café is a convenient stop for burgers, dogs, lobster rolls, local beers and more in the southern tip of Maine.
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PHOTOS: Maine Beer Café
Sometimes you just want a burger and a beer (or a hot dog and a beer, or a lobster roll and a beer) and for that, it’s tough to beat the Maine Beer Café, a little-known Kittery pub that makes it that much more difficult to decide where to eat when spending some time in this little pocket of Maine...
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Two people killed in head-on collision in Sebec, Maine
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 of the vehicles died at the...
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Maine's Cole Brauer becomes first American woman to race sailboat alone and nonstop around world
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. Brauer, all 5-foot-2 and 100…
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Maine sailor becomes first American woman to race solo around globe
Maine sailor Cole Brauer has become the first American woman to race solo, nonstop and unassisted around the world.
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Maine mass shooter had a brain injury, but experts say that doesn't explain his violence
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 traumatic brain injury. The analysis, requested...
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Army officials testify before Maine mass shooting commission
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…
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Lewiston shooter's brain showed signs of brain trauma
Researchers at Boston University say there is evidence that Lewiston, Maine, mass shooter had traumatic brain injuries.
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Brain of Lewiston gunman showed signs of traumatic injury, researchers say
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.
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Warm winter makes for an uncertain maple sugaring season in Maine
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 about four weeks, but the warm weather has introduced an element of...
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Supreme Court restores Trump to Maine ballot, rejecting attempts to ban him over Capitol attack
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 provision to keep presidential candidates from appearing on ballots. The…
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Survivors say opportunities were missed that could have prevented Maine mass shooting
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 partisan lines…
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Court documents detail alleged abuse leading up to Maine child's death
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 arrested last week and charged with depraved indifference murder....
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Alliance to help Maine defense contractors that are struggling to fill jobs
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.