Rumford

A man was killed but his wife and their two dogs escaped an early-morning house fire in Rumford, Maine, on Friday. The Rumford Fire Department received a call shortly before 4 a.m. for a house fire on Virgin Street. The initial caller said there were two people in the home and one was unable to get out. While they were…

A teenager in Rumford, Maine, is safe after a tense ice rescue by the town’s fire department Tuesday. Shortly before 6 p.m. that afternoon, two teen boys were fishing when one of them got swept into the Androscoggin River just below a paper mill.

A teenager in Rumford, Maine, is safe after a tense ice rescue by the town’s fire department Tuesday. Shortly before 6 p.m. that afternoon, two teen boys were fishing when one of them got swept into the Androscoggin River just below a paper mill.

The pit bull who attacked a mother and her two children was euthanized.

Police say a dog that attacked two teenage girls and their mother in Rumford, Maine, has been euthanized.

Overnight snow that fell is melting and/or being washed away in Eastern Mass, Rhode Island and Connecticut.

Police say a robber walked in to the sushi restaurant Tuesday night, pulled a gun out of his waistband and demanded money before the sushi chef ran after him wielding a large, shiny and sharp knife.