Maine

Authorities in Maine have issued a Silver Alert for a 66-year-old woman who has not been heard from since Monday. The Saco Police Department has issued a Silver Alert for Deborah Davidson-Stewart of Saco, the Maine Department of Public Safety said early Friday morning in a news release. The woman posted on Facebook that she was in the Portland area,…

A Maine school bus driver is now charged with assault and driving to endanger after a parent recorded video that appears to show a bus pulling away with the mother of an eighth-grader still in its open doors. According to the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office, 74-year-old, Shirley Danforth of Lovell, Maine was allegedly behind the wheel of that bus...

In Maine, the skylines in at least two of its cities are rapidly changing. In Portland, high-rise buildings, like an 18-story apartment complex, are under construction downtown. Next door in Westbrook, a multi-story structure with a parking garage, apartments and a vertical farm is being built as well. “The site has gotten a lot of attention,” said the city’s...

Jorge “Jo-Jo” Morales was reported missing from Miami last month.

A Maine man who joined rioters at the U.S. Capitol was convicted Tuesday of 11 charges including assaulting, resisting or impeding police officers. Kyle Fitzsimons, 39, of Lebanon, charged to the front line on Jan. 6, 2021, and assaulted officers, including three from the Metropolitan and Capitol Police Departments who testified against him. He also charged the line twice while…

An abandoned vehicle found in Maine is believed to be connected to a missing 6-year-old boy from Florida. Jorge “Jo-Jo” Morales was reported missing from Miami on Aug. 27. He is believed to have been abducted by his father and paternal grandmother, according to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Police in Miami said personal items believed to…

With that cool fall breeze becoming more common these days, you may find yourself breaking out the flannel shirts and enjoying a “PSL” (short for pumpkin spice latte) more and more. And as September comes to a close, it may also be time to head out to the orchard and pick some apples to really get into the fall vibe….

After an aerial survey last week, experts at the New England Aquarium say the whale, named Snow Cone, a female who had recently reproduced and added to the scare species’ population, had become newly entangled in fishing gear and was covered in cyamids or “whale lice.”

Police in Freeport, Maine, are seeking the public’s assistance as they search for a 14-year-old boy who has been missing since Thursday. Theo Ferrara was last seen at his home in Freeport around 4:30 p.m. Thursday, police said. Flyers have been posted around town as police officers and game wardens continue to search for the missing teen. During a...

Some areas will see wind gusts up to 65 mph and big waves.

Maine will be spared the worst of Hurricane Fiona as it slams into Nova Scotia and the Canadian Maritimes this weekend. Still, some communities are expecting wind gusts of 55 to 60 miles per hour and big waves. One NWS Caribou projected wind gust map showed the city of Eastport, Maine getting a 61 mile-per-hour gust. High wind warnings and…

A bargain hunter who went to an estate sale in Maine looking for a KitchenAid mixer, a bookshelf or vintage clothing walked away with a 700-year-old treasure.

In some ways, it might be a college student’s dream: the ability to get hot food on-campus without having to leave your dorm room on a cold winter night. Over the past few weeks, University of Southern Maine students in Portland and Gorham have been getting used to that convenience thanks to 15 delivery robots. They’re called Kiwibots and...

Students on the school’s Portland and Gorham campuses can now order food delivered by a robot.

More than two years after a massive explosion at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, hundreds of workers will soon be out of a job. In April 2020, the “digester” of the Androscoggin Mill in the town of fewer than 5,000 people, a roughly 45-minute drive north of Lewiston, exploded, sending debris over a widespread area. Fortunately, there were no…

An explosion at a paper mill in Jay, Maine, was a devastating blow and despite rebuilding, the mill is now closing. It will mean the loss of some 230 jobs.

A Maine Uber driver has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman he’d picked up from a nightclub in Bangor in June, police said. The woman called police the next morning to report the assault, Bangor police said, according to NewsCenter Maine. Joseph Graston, a 28-year-old Milo resident, was arrested on charges of gross sexual assault and unlawful sexual...

A woman from Georgia died after falling 30 feet off the edge of a cliff walk Monday in Scarborough, Maine, according to NBC affiliate News Center Maine. The woman was identified by officials as Romona Gowens, 55, of Calhoun, Georgia, according to the Maine news outlet. Emergency crews found the woman critically injured following the fall off the Prouts Neck…

A witness who asked not to be named said the noise was “unbelievable” as the car came around the road and crashed into the lake.

A man dressed only in underwear tried to break into a Maine home on Sunday, then led police on a chase that ended when his SUV crashed into a lake, authorities said.