The owner of a massage parlor in Lewiston, Maine, has been arrested on sex trafficking charges, police confirmed Thursday. Richard Qiu of Brooklyn, New York, has ties to several massage parlors in Maine, according to Lewiston Police, who began investigating reports of an illicit massage parlor on Sabattus Street in March of this year. When investigators executed search warrants on…

The Department of Homeland Security released a new report this week that suggests the gunman who shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, last October could have been stalking his ex-coworkers at the Maine Recycling Corp. in Lisbon to ambush them, according to the Portland Press Herald. While there were cameras at the main facility, the report revealed that…

An independent report found that local police and the Army Reserve failed to stop the gunman who killed 18 people last year.

Nearly 10 months after the deadliest shooting in Maine history, in which an Army reservist killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar and grill in Lewiston, the independent body tasked with investigating what happened has released its final report. The Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston found that both the Army Reserve and…

Both the Army Reserve and local police missed out on opportunities to intervene in a gunman’s psychiatric crisis and seize weapons from the spiraling reservist responsible for the deadliest shootings in Maine history, according to the final report released Tuesday by a special commission created to investigate the attacks, which killed 18 people. The independent commission, which held more than…

With eleventh hour guidance from the state, Maine gun retailers on Friday began requiring a three-day wait period for gun purchases under one of the new safety laws adopted following the state’s deadliest mass shooting. Maine joins a dozen other states with similar laws, requiring that buyers wait 72 hours to complete a purchase and retrieve a weapon. The law…

Rancourt and Company has made shoes for American athletes to wear in past Olympic ceremonies, but after the mass shooting in Lewiston, the job takes on added meaning this year.

It’s the soul of Lewiston, Maine, on display in Paris. But before Team USA athletes could walk in these very special white suede shoes, their journey began at a New England factory. “It’s a shock when all of sudden you see it and there’s a picture of them and they’re dressed in their uniform and there’s our shoes on...

Families of the victims of the deadliest mass shooting in Maine’s history said Wednesday that they want a broader federal investigation into the circumstance surrounding the killings. The request came in a statement issued by the relatives’ lawyers a day after Army officials released a pair of reports about the October shootings. One of the reports said three Army...

The investigation indicated the Lewiston gunman had a “hit list,” bragged that he could kill 100 people with a rifle scope he’d bought, and told a health care provider that he decided to quit his job “before he ended up killing someone,” an Army report said...

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