Maine

A man with a machete was shot by police on a Maine bridge early Tuesday morning after they said he refused to drop his weapon. Topsham police said the regional dispatch center covering their town received a call around 1:30 a.m. Tuesday from 33-year-old Joseph Mendez thanking them for their service. He also told the dispatcher that they would be...

A 75-year-old man was rescued early Saturday after the U-Haul truck he was driving crashed through the ice on a lake in Mount Desert, Maine. A spokesperson for the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife tells NBC Boston affiliate News Center Maine that the driver of the 10-foot box truck was apparently “confused” and did not realize he was...

The Maine Marine Patrol, U.S. Coast Guard and local fishermen began searching for Chester Barrett and his son, Aaron, along the coast between Lubec and South Addison.

​Duke freshman Cooper Flagg won’t be making it all the way up to Maine, so his fans trekked to Chestnut Hill on Saturday night to see the likely No. 1 overall draft pick play Boston College in his only game in New England this season. Flagg had 28 points, five rebounds, four assists, two steals and two blocked shots to…

A man died in an explosion at his home in Molunkus, Maine, Friday afternoon, fire officials said. Kerry Holmes, 66, is believed to have died in a propane torch incident about 3 p.m. on Aroostock Road, the Maine Fire Marshal’s Office said. The explosion took place after a propane torch Holmes was using to thaw a commercial truck’s frozen water...

Authorities are investigating a deadly fire that broke out on Friday morning in a large single-family home in Lebanon, Maine. Lebanon Fire and EMS said they received a 911 call around 11:40 a.m. Friday from a passerby reporting a fully engulfed house fire at 117 Smith Road. Numerous area fire departments responded to the scene. A heavy column of smoke...

Police are investigating after a man was found dead in a pickup truck alongside Interstate 95 in central Maine on Thursday morning. State police troopers responded to I-95 south in Sidney around 7 a.m. Thursday for a report of a motor vehicle crash. A Nissan pickup truck had reportedly gone into the trees int he median of the highway. Upon...

Police say they have made an arrest in connection with a shooting last month that stemmed from a fight that broke out at a steakhouse in South Portland, Maine, last month. South Portland police said 21-year-old Jonathan Hanson, of Buxton, was arrested Wednesday in Buxton. He was one of two suspects in a Dec. 18 incident in the Maine Mall...

A 41-year-old man has been charged with shooting his stepbrother in the leg on Tuesday in South Portland, Maine. South Portland police said they responded to a 911 call reporting a shooting at 616 Westbrook Street around 4 p.m. Tuesday. Arriving officers found a 30-year-old man who had suffered a gunshot to his lower leg. Police immediately applied a tourniquet,...

Police in Maine are investigating the death of a 3-year-old boy who was found outside in the snow on Sunday morning. The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office responded to a 911 call around 8:30 a.m. Sunday from a residence on Exeter Road in Corinna, a town of about 2,200 residents in central Maine. The caller said her 3-year-old nephew was missing...

A 20-year-old man is dead and his 20-year-old passenger is seriously injured after the SUV they were in went off the roadway and struck a fence and tree overnight in New Gloucester, Maine. New Gloucester Fire Rescue says they were called to 97 Dougherty Road around 12:12 a.m. Saturday for a crash with reported entrapment and one person unresponsive. Crews...

More than a month after a Virginia man was found shot to death in Maine, the man wanted in the killing was arrested in California. Maine State Police said 34-year-old William “Nate” Robinson of Austinville, Virginia, was found Dec. 3 in a trash barrel in the Schmid Land Preserve in Edgecomb. The state’s medical examiner’s office determined he had died...

A Maine police lieutenant was critically injured in a two-vehicle head-on crash Monday afternoon, according to authorities. The Buckfield Fire Department said in a social media post around 4:45 p.m. Monday that the Turner Fire Department responded to two major crashes in different areas of Turner Center Road. Traffic was reportedly seriously delayed or even at a standstill at times....

A Maine man is facing arson and other charges in connection with an explosion Sunday night in the back of a parked pickup truck. The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office said it responded Sunday night to assist Maine State Police with an explosion investigation that occurred at 7:30 p.m. in Swanville, a small town in the central part of the state....

Police in Maine say an at-risk teen from Limerick who was reported missing Saturday night has been found. Maine State Police said 13-year-old Madelyn “Ash” Fogg had last been seen on Central Avenue in Limerick around 8 p.m. In an update shortly before 1 p.m. Sunday, they said the teen had been found safe.

An altercation at a house party in Auburn, Maine, led to two people being shot and a third being stabbed overnight, according to police, who announced charges against an 18-year-old partygoer. Auburn police say they responded to the area of 45 Smith Street around 3:20 a.m. Saturday for a report of a stabbing and gunshot wounds and found three injured...

A man was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer on I-95 in Maine early Friday morning. Maine State Police said shortly after 4 a.m. that they were at the scene of a fatal crash and had closed the I-95 off-ramp at Exit 132 southbound in Fairfield as they investigated. In an update shortly after 6 a.m., they said they received...

Two teens were injured in a shooting incident and assault in Auburn, Maine, on New Year’s Day, according to police. Auburn police said they received multiple calls shortly after 5 a.m. Wednesday reporting that a female had been shot in the leg in the area of Winter and Dennison streets. Responding officers found a 16-year-old girl from Lewiston suffering from...

A man died after being pulled from a burning home in Biddeford, Maine, Monday afternoon, officials say. The fire was reported about 3:03 p.m. at a home on Alfred Street at the intersection of Ray Street, according to Biddeford firefighters, who saw flames pouring from an apartment over a two-car garage. A 71-year-old man was found unresponsive in the apartment...

An elderly man driving the wrong way on Interstate 95 in central Maine died in a crash Tuesday morning, police said. The other driver was injured but is expected to survive, Maine State Police said. The crash closed I-95 south in Pittsfield for about two hours. The crash took place about 11 a.m. in Pittsfield, while troopers were rushing to...