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No swimming, fishing or shellfish harvesting is being allowed in Maine’s Wells Harbor due to a sewage leak. Wells police tweeted about the leak around 12:30 p.m. Friday. They said the sewage leak at the harbor has led them to shut down swimming and fishing between the jetty “until further notice.” No further details were released Friday by police...

A Maine man who fatally shot his toddler niece did so after getting into a fight with the child’s father over a shirt, police said. The girl, Octavia Huber Young, died Saturday after the shooting in Wells. Police said the man who shot Octavia, 19-year-old Andrew Huber Young, got into a fight with his brother over the shirt, the Portland Press...

A Maine man has been charged with murder in the fatal shooting of a 2-year-old girl on Saturday. Andrew Huber Young, 19, of Wells, is accused of shooting three people shortly after 4 p.m. Saturday at a home in Wells. Two males were taken to local hospitals and are expected to survive, police said, but a 2-year-old girl died as…

Three people were taken to area hospitals after a shooting Saturday involving a family at a home in Wells, Maine, police announced. Wells police said in a press release that the alleged shooter is in custody, and the victims are at local hospitals. There were no details on the victims’ injuries or their current conditions. According to NBC affiliate NEWS…

A Massachusetts man was allegedly driving impaired when he crashed into another car on the highway Monday, injuring a couple in Wells, Maine. Cornelius Hegarty III, of Salisbury, Mass., was arrested and charged with operating under the influence, the Maine Department of Public Safety said in a statement. Maine State Police responded around 11:45 a.m. Monday to a two-vehicle crash…

A 52-year-old Massachusetts man was killed in a car crash with a tractor-trailer Thursday night on I-95 northbound in Wells, Maine. Maine State Police responded to the fatal crash just after 11 p.m. Thursday. The tractor-trailer, driven by 24-year-old Sahib Singh of Fresno, California, was traveling in the right lane when he saw a BMW parked in the breakdown lane….

Scientists at the New England Aquarium are asking for help identifying a great white shark that was spotted eating a dead whale off the coast of Maine at the end of last week. On Friday, Steve Brettell and a friend captured the shark on camera shortly before the whale carcass washed up on Mother’s Beach in Kennebunk. Brettell said...

The shark, which was spotted feeding on a whale in Kennebunk, isn’t tagged, scientists say.

The retired captain of a charter fishing boat in southern Maine captured some incredible images of a shark feeding on a whale carcass off the coast of Drake’s Island in Wells on Friday morning. “It’s kind of a cool thing. Fun to watch,” said Steve Brettell, who snapped the photos. Brettell, who ran a charter fishing business for over...

A great white shark was spotted off the coast of Maine Thursday afternoon, according to Wells police, about two and a half weeks after the state’s first deadly shark attack. Several beachgoers alerted a lifeguard around noon, police said, to say they had spotted fins in the water off of Wells Beach. As lifeguards were about to investigate with...

Swimmers were ordered out of the water at several Cape Cod beaches on Thursday morning due to shark sightings.

An agreement announced Wednesday between the state of Vermont and the owner of a closed industrial site blamed for contaminating drinking water supplies should bring relief to a few hundred homeowners in the Bennington area.

Maine State Police say a 46-year-old man was killed in a car crash after he lost control of his vehicle in Wells.

Maine State Police say a 46-year-old man was killed in a car crash after he lost control of his vehicle in Wells.

A 19-year-old man was killed in a single-vehicle crash Tuesday that resulted in the partial closure of the Maine Turnpike in Wells. State police say the crash occurred at approximately 6:30 a.m. in the northbound lane after a car struck the median guardrail and slammed into a group of trees.

“The Warriors” name will remain, but mascots at public schools in Wells, Maine, will no longer incorporate Native American imagery.

Wildfires reportedly burned more than 100 acres of land in multiple parts of Maine Wednesday.

The tides have torn up parts of Maine’s coast, and there is little time to clean up the damage before the next nor’easter hits.

After just 10 days of collecting hurricane relief supplies, a filled tractor trailer will be heading down to Florida.

The Air Force says it will spend $30 million this year on cleaning up contaminated groundwater at a former New Hampshire base.