Maine

A 58-year-old hiker had to be rescued by a helicopter after injuring himself on the Beehive Trail at Maine’s Acadia National Park on Wednesday. Acadia National Park said in a press release that park rangers responded to a report of a man experiencing a serious medical event on the Beehive Trail around 8 a.m. Wednesday. Park rangers coordinated with...

A 17-year-old was killed when the moped he was riding on was struck by a pickup truck in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday afternoon. Augusta police said they responded to a motor vehicle crash at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in front of the Rusty Lantern convenience store and gas station at 670 Civic Center Drive. Preliminary investigation determined that a Chevrolet Silverado…

A Massachusetts man was badly injured after making a hard landing during a skydiving accident in Maine on Monday. Manny Silva, 57, of Dartmouth, was injured when he fell hard following complications skydiving in Lebanon, Maine, just before noon Monday. He was taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, the York County Sheriff’s Department said. He was…

A bill that’s being introduced Monday after a mass shooting in Maine would require the Army to use state crisis intervention laws to remove the weapons of a service member who is deemed to be a serious threat to themselves or others, said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, the bill’s sponsor. The Armed Forces Crisis Intervention Notification Act is aimed...

Maine State Police said they are investigating after a body was found in a river in Falmouth over the weekend. Falmouth police were called to the Presumpscot River adjacent to Walton Park at 11:49 a.m. Saturday for a report of a suspicious object. When they arrived, they said they determined the object to be the deceased body of an adult…

A fire suppression system at a Brunswick Executive Airport hangar showed deficiencies about a year before it discharged gallons of firefighting foam containing harmful chemicals in Maine’s biggest accidental spill of the fire suppressant on record, according to a recently released report. It’s not known, however, if those deficiencies, which included some non-functioning sensors, led to what happened on...

Nicholas Carter, 31, had been found guilty of aggravated assault against a 14-month-old child.

Nicholas Carter, 31, had been found guilty of aggravated assault against a 14-month-old child

A person died when a pickup truck rear-ended her SUV in a construction zone on Interstate 95 in Augusta, Maine, on Friday, police said. A dog in the SUV died as well, according to Maine State Police. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was facing charges in the crash, which involved five vehicles in total. The crash took place about…

A Walmart store in Augusta, Maine, was evacuated on Thursday afternoon due to a bomb threat. Augusta police said all customers and employees evacuated the store on Civic Center Drive around 2:20 p.m. A police bomb sniffing dog responded to the scene. Around 4:45 p.m., the building was cleared and allowed to reopen. The investigation into the bomb threat remains…

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…

A settlement that led to the dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit hasn’t ended a criminal investigation into a toddler’s disappearance from her father’s home in Maine where blood was found more than a decade ago. Trista Reynolds, who is the mother of Ayla Reynolds, reached a settlement that brought her civil lawsuit against the girl’s father, Justin DiPietro,...

A 4-year-old girl was struck and killed by an SUV while outside of her day care last week in North Berwick, Maine, according to police. North Berwick police said they were called to Buffum Road arond 4:46 p.m. Thursday for a report of a child who had been struck by a vehicle. Responding emergency personnel arrived at the scene to…

A total of 13 fire departments and over 100 first responders battled a massive blaze at an unfinished apartment complex in Auburn, Maine, overnight. Auburn fire officials said they responded to a reported fire at a construction site at 138 Mount Auburn Avenue around 10:11 p.m. Sunday. The site holds two 4-story apartment buildings, each with about 80 living units,…

Orange, blue, calico, two-toned and … cotton-candy colored? Those are all the hues of lobsters that have showed up in fishers’ traps, supermarket seafood tanks and scientists’ laboratories over the last year. The funky-colored crustaceans inspire headlines that trumpet their rarity, with particularly uncommon baby blue-tinted critters described by some as “cotton-candy colored” often estimated at 1 in 100 million….

The Maine State Police released a report on Friday describing the lessons learned after the state’s largest mass shooting and making multiple recommendations for improvements in tactical response, incident management, training and other areas. The agency called the report an “after action review” and said one of its goals was to identify areas for improvement stemming from the response...

A Maine man was killed Wednesday night after he crashed his minivan into a state police cruiser and was thrown from his vehicle. State police said Trooper Ryan Murry was parked in his marked cruiser off the road in a gravel turnout off Route 180 in Ellsworth just after 7:30 p.m. when his cruiser was struck by a vehicle. Preliminary…

A Rembrandt discovered in the attic of a Maine estate recently sold for $1.4 million at auction.

A woman was found dead in a parked vehicle in Dayton, Maine, Monday afternoon, police said, and the woman matched the description of a woman missing from Virginia. Autumn Cleveland, 23, had been reported missing from Newport News, Maine State Police said Tuesday. There was no danger to the public, and the woman’s death remained under investigation, according to police….

A baby girl was rescued from an opioid overdose in Mexico, Maine, and a man, out of jail on bail, was arrested, officials said Tuesday. The 9-month-old, who was rushed to Rumford Hospital and then Maine Medical Center, responded to the overdose-reversing drug Narcan in the incident Monday, the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office said. She also tested positive for...