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Police in Maine say they are investigating the discovery of two bodies inside a home in Greenbush

Officials have identifed the victims of a house fire in North Hampton, New Hampshire, as a 23-year-old man and a 1-year-old boy. The state medical examiner’s office determined Benjamin Fauteux, of Hillsboro, and Emerson Quinonez, of North Hampton, died from smoke inhalation. Their deaths were ruled accidental.

An overnight house fire in North Hampton, N.H. left a man and a child dead.

The deaths of a man and woman found inside of their Lebanon home on Saturday afternoon are being investigated as a murder suicide, according to the Maine Department of Public Safety.

Thousands of members of New England law enforcement agencies are grieving the loss of a Maine State trooper who was laid to rest Tuesday. The mourners made up most of the attendees for funeral ceremonies for Det. Ben Campbell, held at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. Campbell was killed on-duty last week in what’s been described by Maine State...

Maine State Police have announced funeral services for a detective who was killed while assisting a motorist on Interstate 95. State police say services for Detective Ben Campbell will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Cross Insurance Arena in Portland. Campbell was at the site of a disabled vehicle Wednesday morning when he was struck and killed by...

A Maine man is facing charges in connection with the stabbing death of his roommate, according to state police. Authorities say Dustan Bentley, 40, of Old Orchard Beach, was arrested Tuesday evening and charged with the murder of William Popplewell. The 65-year-old was found dead at an apartment on Boisvert Street at about 10:30 p.m. Monday.

Maine State Police detectives are investigating an apparent murder-suicide following a standoff in Presque Isle that ended in the deaths of a man and a child. State Police spokesman Stephen McCausland says officers were called early Sunday to a home on Reach Road. He says officers discovered two bodies when they entered the home. One was of an adult male...

Elizabeth Abelson, 30, of Gloucester, Mass., was snowmobiling along with her husband on a trail near Irish Neighborhood Road shortly after 11 a.m. when she lost control of her snowmobile in Greenwood, Maine.

A pregnant woman from Massachusetts and her unborn child were killed in a snowmobile crash in Maine, according to Maine Game Warden Corporal John MacDonald. Elizabeth Abelson, 30, of Gloucester, was snowmobiling along with her husband on a trail near Irish Neighborhood Road shortly after 11 a.m. Saturday when she lost control of her snowmobile. Officials say Abelson was ejected...

Two people have died in an early morning house fire in the Maine town of Orrington. The fire marshal’s office says three other people, two men and a woman, escaped the fire that was reported around 2:30 a.m. on Saturday. Authorities say the bodies of a man and woman were found in the rubble. They will be transported to the...

Medical examiner ruled Brian Joyce overdosed on a drug used to treat insomnia.

Former Massachusetts state Sen. Brian Joyce died of acute pentobarbital intoxication, an overdose of a drug used to treat insomnia, according to the state medical examiner’s office. Joyce, 56, was found dead in his home in September. The Bristol District Attorney’s Office said Joyce’s wife found him dead in their home in Westport. No foul play was suspected.

Maine State Police say the skydiving instructor who was thought to have become separated from his student during a tandem jump back in September committed suicide. Authorities said the State Medical Examiner’s Office concluded that the Sept. 27 death of 41-year-old Brett Bickford, of Rochester, New Hampshire was a suicide.

State police are investigating an inmate death at the Maine State Prison. Officials say 50-year-old Christopher Nault of Farmington died Friday morning.

Police in Maine have identified the body of a woman found on the side of an Augusta road.

A Maine man has died of injuries sustained in a brawl in Lewiston earlier this week, according to police.

State police in Maine say a woman’s body was found in the tourist town of Bar Harbor.

A man was shot and killed early Monday morning in an armed confrontation with a state trooper in Wales, Maine, according to state police.

Police in Maine are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains over the weekend.