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Man shot dead, suspected shooter arrested in Portland, Maine
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...
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1 dead, 3 hurt in head-on crash in Maine, deputies say
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...
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2 relatives found dead in Vermont home
Two relatives were found dead at a home in Newfane, Vermont, on Friday, state police said. They didn’t say what’s believed to have led to the deaths, but said there was no apparent threat to the public and everyone involved was believed to have been accounted for; no one was in custody. Relatives reported finding the bodies of family members...
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Man injured in Maine stabbing dies 1 week later; no arrests announced
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.
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Teen still missing weeks after walking out of her Maine home
It’s been nearly a month since Stefanie Damron was last seen, and the New Sweden, Maine, teenager remains missing, police said Tuesday.
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Canadian hiker dies on trail in NH's White Mountains
A hiker from Canada died after suffering a medical emergency on a mountain trail near Conway, New Hampshire, on Saturday, authorities said. The 58-year-old man from Montreal was nearly 2 miles from the trailhead of Mt. Chocorua’s Piper Trail when he had the medical emergency, New Hampshire Fire and Game said. While the type of medical emergency wasn’t specified, the...
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Firefighters Battle Blaze Sending Smoke Over Revere
Residents were displaced after a fire raged at a building Tuesday in Revere, Massachusetts. Fire crews could be seen dousing the flames coming from cranes high above what appeared to be two burning triple-decker homes on Hyde Street. Smoke from the blaze rose into the sky over the city. The Revere Fire Department didn’t immediately release information on the...
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Man Dies After Being Pulled From Water in Scituate
A man has died after being rushed to the hospital from the waters off Scituate, Massachusetts, Tuesday. First responders had been searching by sea and air after a man jumped off the Edward Foster Bridge to cool off from the stifling temperatures. The man in the water was found about 3:45 p.m., about 37 minutes after 911 was called, just…
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Retired Mass. Trooper, Air Force Vet IDed as Victims in Winthrop Shooting Rampage
The people who were gunned down in Winthrop, Massachusetts, Saturday by a man who had just crashed a stolen truck have been identified, along with the shooter, who is suspected to have used white supremacist language in the past. The victims were David Green, a 58-year-old retired Massachusetts State Police officer, and Ramona Cooper, a 60-year-old Air Force veteran who…
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Driver Injures 2 Mass. State Troopers During Police Chase in Revere
A driver who’d been leading Massachusetts state troopers on a chase Saturday injured two of them, one in a cruiser and one on foot, in Revere, police said Sunday. The driver who police were pursuing hadn’t yet been captured, according to the Massachusetts State Police said Sunday morning. The incident took place on Belview Road about 8 a.m. Saturday,...
