Maine

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...

New England’s states are ringing in the new year with laws that will go into effect throughout 2025, affecting family leave, rideshare drivers, cannabis, wages and much more.

A man driving a U-Haul caused a serious chain reaction crash that shut the Maine Turnpike in Scarborough Friday night, police said. The U-Haul’s driver was trapped inside the vehicle after it collided with a tanker truck on I-95; he had to be extracted from the vehicle and was flown to Maine Medical Center in Portland for treatment, Maine...

A Sidney, Maine woman accused of killing a 14-year-old boy was ordered by a judge to undergo psychological evaluation during her first court appearance, according to News Center Maine. 39-year-old Megan McDonald was charged with murder after a teenager was found outside her home on December 20. The teen’s identity has not been released. The evaluation is expected to be...

A man driving a U-Haul caused a serious chain reaction crash that shut the Maine Turnpike in Scarborough Friday night, police said. The U-Haul’s driver was trapped inside the vehicle after it collided with a tanker truck on I-95; he had to be extracted from the vehicle and was flown to Maine Medical Center in Portland for treatment, Maine State...

Police are investigating an overnight shooting at a local apartment building in Portland, Maine. Portland police said they responded to the area of 139 Cumberland Avenue around 12:08 a.m. Thursday for a report of shots fired. When they arrived, officers found numerous damaged windows and signs that multiple gunshots had been fired into several apartments. They said it appears that...

Maine State Police are searching for a man wanted on domestic violence charges after allegedly choking his pregnant partner on Christmas Eve. Police say 41-year-old Dusty O’Brien, who is out on bail after a separate domestic violence arrest, fled his home after attacking his partner. Authorities did not say where the incident occurred, but noted that O’Brien is known to...

A 78-year-old man was found dead in the basement following a house fire in Portland, Maine, on Sunday. The State Fire Marshal’s Office said they were called to a Bayview Drive home around 3:22 p.m. Sunday to assist with a death investigation involving a fire. Portland police said they had arrived at the scene to find a man dead in...

Authorities were called to Perkins Cove at around 7:17 p.m. for reports of a fire in the building that housed Oarweed Restaurant, along with Uniques and Antiques.

A vigil was held Saturday for a northern Maine teen who has been missing just shy of three months, and whose disappearance has attracted international media attention. Stefanie Damron, 14, of New Sweden, Maine, was reported missing by her family on Sept. 24, a day after the then-13-year-old was last seen walking out of her house and into the nearby...

A woman was arrested on a murder charge in the violent killing of a 14-year-old boy in Sidney, Maine, on Friday, authorities said. The teenager was found dead outside of a residence on Summerhaven Road after a woman arrived at the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office about 5:27 a.m. to report an incident at her home, state police said. The boy,...

A home in eastern Maine was destroyed by a fire that started with a propane gas explosion on Thursday morning. The Maine Fire Marshals Office said it was called to an address on Milford Road in Grand Lake Stream around 10:30 a.m. Thursday for a single-family home that had been destroyed by fire. They said the fire started outside the...

Police are searching for two suspects believed to have been involved in a shooting stemming from a fight that broke out at a steakhouse in South Portland, Maine, on Wednesday. South Portland police said they responded to the Kobe Steakhouse at 380 Gorham Road at 5:13 p.m. Wednesday for a possible shooting in the parking lot. Responding officers learned that...

Two people were killed in a fiery head on crash in Clifton, Maine, on Wednesday morning, authorities said. The crash occurred shortly before 10 a.m. on Route 180, and the road remained closed as of 1 p.m. Wednesday. Penobscot County Sheriff Troy Morton told News Center Maine that a vehicle crossed the center line and struck an oncoming vehicle head...

Residents in Auburn, Kittery, Portland and Waterville have all reported sightings.

Drone sightings have been reported in New Jersey, New York and more recently, Massachusetts and New Hampshire. And now they are being reported in Maine too. News Center Maine said a Kittery couple reported seeing a drone flying just down the street from their house last week. Ken and Judy Galle told the station they spotted the drone on Dec....

Police responded to an unusual incident on Monday after four cows fell from a trailer being towed by a pickup truck on the Maine Turnpike. Maine State Police said they responded to a single-vehicle crash involving a pickup truck hauling a cattle trailer on the Maine Turnpike in Lewiston at 11:30 a.m. on Monday. The driver was going south when...

Icy road conditions and some poor driving choices caused five separate crashes involving a dozen vehicles on Monday morning in central Maine. Maine State Police said they responded to Interstate 395 westbound on the bridge in Brewer at 7:20 a.m. Monday. A Toyota Tacoma had lost control due to the icy conditions and crashed in the third lane. The pickup...

President Joe Biden on Monday established a national monument honoring the late FDR-era Labor Secretary Frances Perkins, the first woman to serve in a presidential Cabinet and a driving force behind Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal programs after the Great Depression. Perkins is “one of America’s greatest labor leaders, and that’s not hyperbole,” Biden said. Perkins “cemented the idea” that...