Maine

Multiple reports of active shooter situations at schools across Maine are not credible, state police said Tuesday morning. State police said various crisis lines in Maine received threats of armed individuals Tuesday morning on multiple school campuses around the state. State police said they are working with their various partners and were able to determine that the calls were swatting…

Maine Democratic Rep. Jared Golden, a moderate known for defying party orthodoxy, is defending his seat in Congress against Austin Theriault, a stock car driver and Republican state lawmaker. The matchup between Golden and Theriault is one of a handful of pivotal races with a chance to influence control of the U.S. House of Representatives during a competitive election year....

Independent U.S. Sen. Angus King is seeking another term that would make him the oldest senator to serve from Maine, but three candidates are vying to end his three-decade political run.

A 65-year-old man is dead after an ATV crash in Dixmont, Maine, on Saturday. Maine Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife spokesperson Mark Latti tells NBC10 Boston affiliate News Center Maine that Patrick LaFlamme reportedly went out hunting on his ATV Saturday morning but did not return to camp for breakfast, prompting his friends to go out looking for him….

A person was fatally injured in a fire in Skowhegan, Maine, on Thursday afternoon, authorities said.

Three Massachusetts utilities and Central Maine Power’s parent company have agreed that Massachusetts ratepayers must shoulder $512 million in additional costs caused by delays in construction of a power transmission project in Maine that will allow Canadian hydropower to reach the New England power grid. Proponents said Wednesday that the project aimed at supplying enough clean energy to power about...

A man was fatally shot by a sheriff’s deputy in Phillips, Maine, on Tuesday, authorities said. A Franklin County sheriff’s deputy was called to a bridge on Salem Road for a report of a man with a gun about 6 p.m., Sheriff Scott Nichols said in a news release, News Center Maine reported. The man, identified as 61-year-old Lawrence Scott,...

Three people died when a pickup truck and an SUV collided near the entrance to a Maine hiking trail Wednesday morning, authorities told News Center Maine. The crash on Egypt Road, near the border of Raymond and Gray, was reported about 11 a.m., the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office told the news station. All three people inside the vehicles died,...

A Maine lawmaker is currently being held without bail on a domestic violence charge after police put out a warrant for his arrest. Rep. Lucas Lanigan, R-Sanford, turned himself into York County Jail on Monday. He was charged with domestic violence aggravated assault following a warrant that said “Lanigan did intentionally, knowingly or recklessly cause bodily injury” to a woman…

A man was fatally shot in Portland, Maine, on Monday and another man arrested, police said. Edgar Cando, 31, was shot multiple times near the intersection of Portland and Adler streets just before 5:30 p.m. and pronounced dead after being rushed to Maine Medical Center, according to police. By 9 p.m., another Portland resident, Omar Abd Elkader, was arrested at…

A high school senior from Bangor, Maine, has decided that when the time comes, he will donate his brain to science. Fionn Parker-Cummings is the youngest person to donate his brain to the University of Pittsburgh National Sports Brain Bank. Researchers will check in with him every year for the rest of his life. Parker-Cummings said he hopes the contribution...

Maine’s traditional fall hunting seasons are in full swing, but hunters are being asked to avoid eating their game in parts of the state because of the possibility of harmful chemicals in animal meat. Hunters from around the Northeast trek each autumn to Maine, where deer and wild turkeys are two of the most popular game animals. The Maine...

A man was killed and three other people were hurt, one seriously, in a head-on crash in Lebanon, Maine, on Friday, officials said. A car crossed into oncoming traffic on Long Swamp Road about 6 p.m., hitting a pickup truck, according to the York County Sheriff’s Office. The car’s driver, 39-year-old Lebanon resident Daniel Dempsey, was pronounced dead at...

The 18 victims killed by a gunman in Lewiston, Maine, are being remembered at a ceremony one year later.

Maine Gov. Janet Mills released a video on social media Friday morning paying tribute to the victims and survivors of the Oct. 25, 2023, mass shooting in Lewiston and praising the strength of the state’s residents. Friday marks one year since the shootings at Just-In-Time Recreation and Schemengees Bar and Grille in Lewiston that claimed the lives of 18 people...

It’s been one year since the deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine, which left 18 people dead and dozens of others injured. The shootings on Oct. 25, 2023, happened at a bowling alley and a cornhole tournament hosted by a bar and grill. The gunman, 40-year-old Army reservist Robert Card, died by suicide, and his body was found two days...

Friday marks one year since the deadly mass shooting in Lewiston, Maine. Here’s how the city is planning to commemorate the somber anniversary.

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With flags lowered across the state, Maine residents whose sense of safety was shattered last year by a mass shooting planned to mark the anniversary Friday in ways big and small, including a memorial service. The killings of 18 people by an Army reservist in Lewiston drove home the stark reality that no corner of the country is safe from...

A man critically injured in a stabbing this month in the central Maine town of Palmyra died a week later, Maine State Police said Thursday, sharing the man’s identity but little else about the case.

Vicki Roy and Jill Walker, the older sisters of two men credited with saving lives at a Lewiston bowling alley during the mass shooting on Oct. 25, 2023, are sharing their story one year later, even though their brothers would shun the attention.