Maine

A man was killed when he crashed into a moose on Interstate 95 in rural Maine on Sunday, police said. The moose also died in the crash, reported about 7 p.m. in T2 R9, an unorganized territory near Mount Katahdin, according to Maine State Police. The motorcycle driver was identified as Anand Sreedharan, a 50-year-old from Princeton, New Jersey. Police…

A 24-year-old construction flagger was killed when he was hit by a pickup truck while working in a construction zone in Downeast Maine on Tuesday. The Hancock County Sheriff’s Office said the crash occurred just before 7 a.m. Tuesday on Acadia Highway in Orland. A Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck was driving east approaching a construction zone when it struck...

A woman who lost her husband and son in Maine’s deadliest shooting is seeking the gunman’s health and military records through the probate process.

A Maine man was arrested after he allegedly shot at a vehicle that was attempting to flee from police on Monday night. The York County Sheriff’s Office said the incident began with a police pursuit in New Hampshire, when Milton police initiated a chase involving a suspicious vehicle that fled from Dollar General on White Mountain Highway that continued...

A 53-year-old man was killed over the weekend when he crashed in Brunswick, Maine, according to the town’s police department. The crash happened on Saturday night after 10 p.m., police said, as the driver was traveling on Range Road toward Pleasant Street. The driver went through a lawn and rolled over onto Pleasant Street, police said. He was not...

Authorities said they found an injured man, identified as 46-year-old Gene Dares of Biddeford, at the scene.

One person is dead after a tractor-trailer carrying tree logs crashed in West Forks, Maine, on Friday. Somerset County sheriff’s deputies responded to a report of a single-vehicle crash involving a tractor-trailer shortly after 3 p.m. Friday on Route 201 in West Forks, News Center Maine reports. According to a preliminary investigation, a fully loaded 2018 Western Star tractor-trailer was…

Richard Keith Thorpe, 42, was arrested in connection with the homicide of 39-year-old Virginia Cookson in Bangor, Maine, police in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, say

A person was found dead after firefighters put out flames at a burning home in Mexico, Maine, on Thursday morning, state police said. Another person was rescued from the home on Tucker Street with a ladder, police said Friday. She wasn’t hurt. Police didn’t say how the person is believed to have died, or give her name, with the...

Four people were injured when a work van rolled over on its roof on Interstate 295 in Freeport, Maine, on Friday morning. Maine State Police said just before 7 a.m., a white GMC work van with five people inside was driving north on I-295 when the driver, identified as 29-year-old Edison Uscha-Roto, of South Portland, went off the highway to…

9/28/24 UPDATE: Authorities say the victim’s ex-boyfriend has been arrested in her death Police are investigating a homicide after a woman was found dead in a home in Bangor, Maine, on Wednesday. Bangor police said they were notified around 9 a.m. Wednesday of a possible death on Larkin Street, according to News Center Maine. They responded and found a woman…

Police in Fairfield, Maine, are searching for a missing mother and her toddler son who haven’t been seen since Monday. Fairfield police said in a social media post on Thursday that they are seeking the public’s help in locating 38-year-old Star Cunningham and her 3-year-old son Grayson Costain. They were last seen on foot in Fairfield Center on Monday...

A 43-year-old man was killed when he was struck by the bucket of a front-end loader while walking across the yard at a Maine sand and gravel company on Monday, according to state police. Troopers from the Maine State Police said they responded to Dayton Sand and Gravel around 12:03 p.m. Monday for a report of a worker who had…

Two law enforcement officers who were allies when they faced tough questions about their interactions with an Army reservist who killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, last year are squaring off to become sheriff.

Authorities are investigating a fatal fire in Auburn, Maine. The Fire Marshal’s Office said their investigators were called to a residential fire on Washington Street in Auburn around 2:30 a.m. Monday. During their investigation, they said human remains were located. The remains have been transported to the state medical examiner’s office in Augusta for positive identification, but investigators said...

A 50-year-old man is facing charges after authorities say he intentionally crashed his car into an ATV driven by a teen on Saturday in southern Maine. The York County Sheriff’s Department said their deputies responded to the intersection of Buff Brook Road and Lake Sherburne Road in Waterboro around 5 p.m. Saturday for a disturbance. Their investigation determined that...

The extent of injury the woman suffered was not disclosed.

Maine State Police say they arrested 20-year-old Tyler Quirion of Waterville.

Maine State Police say 54-year-old Lisa Barney of Oakland was charged with manslaughter in connection to the death of 4-month-old infant on September 8, 2023.

A 53-year-old man died in a single-car crash in Albion, Maine on Friday night. Maine State Police say they responded to a report of a motor vehicle crash on East Benton Road at around 7:41 p.m. Authorities say 53-year-old James T. McGarey was driving a Dodge pick-up before leaving the roadway and striking a rock. Police say that life-saving measures…