Maine

A couple and their baby have been missing for several days, Maine State Police said Friday, asking for the public’s help ensuring that they’re all safe. Benjamin, Casandra and 2-month-old Grace Quinn are believed to be in the area of Androscoggin County, police said. The trio were reported missing to the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office Wednesday. Anyone who knows...

A man was critically injured in a stabbing in the central Maine town of Palmyra, Maine State Police said Friday. State Police said they and the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office were called to a home on Madawaska Road and found the victim with serious injuries. He was taken Sebasticook Valley Hospital in Pittsfield, then transferred to Eastern Maine Medical...

After a manhunt lasting hours, police in Maine caught a wanted man who’d been seen crashing a stolen pickup truck in Casco, authorities said Thursday. Garrett Littlefield, a 33-year-old from Alfred who was wanted over multiple felonies, evaded police all day, according to Maine State Police. When they first announced he was at large, they said he’d been last...

Republican Donald Trump mixed up Democratic Gov. Janet Mills’ gender on a phone call with supporters in Maine, The Bangor Daily News reported Tuesday. The newspaper obtained a recording of the call in which Trump attacked Mills on immigration, saying the governor is going to turn Maine into a “third world” country. Trump was trying to energize voters on Monday,…

The U.S. general election on Nov. 5 will decide the country’s direction, but it is far from a nationally administered contest. The 50 states and the District of Columbia run their own elections, and each does things a little differently. To win the presidency outright, a candidate must receive at least 270 of the 538 votes in the Electoral College….

It’s going to take about two weeks to remove smoldering debris from a Maine town’s trash incinerator after a fire burned in the waste for a week, officials said Tuesday. Firefighters have been stationed continuously at the trash incinerator, which was foreclosed upon in 2023 and bought by Eagle Point Energy Center, since the fire started on Oct. 1. They…

A man has been arrested in the death of a woman last month in Mexico, Maine, police said Monday.

Maine State Police say they are investigating the double homicide that occurred at 10 Crawford Drive in Bath

The FBI says 13-year-old Stefanie Damron of New Sweden, Maine was reported missing by her family on September 24.

A Maine man is dead after a high-speed pursuit involving a sheriff’s deputy ended in a head-on crash with a tractor trailer in Waterford earlier this week. The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday that Thomas Welch, 42, of Porter, had died Monday following an incident on Route 93 southbound, otherwise known as Sweden Road. According to the sheriff’s...

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…