Maine

A 58-year-old hiker had to be rescued by a helicopter after injuring himself on the Beehive Trail at Maine’s Acadia National Park on Wednesday. Acadia National Park said in a press release that park rangers responded to a report of a man experiencing a serious medical event on the Beehive Trail around 8 a.m. Wednesday. Park rangers coordinated with...

A 17-year-old was killed when the moped he was riding on was struck by a pickup truck in Augusta, Maine, on Tuesday afternoon. Augusta police said they responded to a motor vehicle crash at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday in front of the Rusty Lantern convenience store and gas station at 670 Civic Center Drive. Preliminary investigation determined that a Chevrolet Silverado…

A Massachusetts man was badly injured after making a hard landing during a skydiving accident in Maine on Monday. Manny Silva, 57, of Dartmouth, was injured when he fell hard following complications skydiving in Lebanon, Maine, just before noon Monday. He was taken to the hospital with serious but not life-threatening injuries, the York County Sheriff’s Department said. He was…

A bill that’s being introduced Monday after a mass shooting in Maine would require the Army to use state crisis intervention laws to remove the weapons of a service member who is deemed to be a serious threat to themselves or others, said U.S. Sen. Susan Collins, the bill’s sponsor. The Armed Forces Crisis Intervention Notification Act is aimed...

A person died when a pickup truck rear-ended her SUV in a construction zone on Interstate 95 in Augusta, Maine, on Friday, police said. A dog in the SUV died as well, according to Maine State Police. It wasn’t immediately clear if anyone was facing charges in the crash, which involved five vehicles in total. The crash took place about…

A Walmart store in Augusta, Maine, was evacuated on Thursday afternoon due to a bomb threat. Augusta police said all customers and employees evacuated the store on Civic Center Drive around 2:20 p.m. A police bomb sniffing dog responded to the scene. Around 4:45 p.m., the building was cleared and allowed to reopen. The investigation into the bomb threat remains…

The owner of a massage parlor in Lewiston, Maine, has been arrested on sex trafficking charges, police confirmed Thursday. Richard Qiu of Brooklyn, New York, has ties to several massage parlors in Maine, according to Lewiston Police, who began investigating reports of an illicit massage parlor on Sabattus Street in March of this year. When investigators executed search warrants on…

A settlement that led to the dismissal of a wrongful death lawsuit hasn’t ended a criminal investigation into a toddler’s disappearance from her father’s home in Maine where blood was found more than a decade ago. Trista Reynolds, who is the mother of Ayla Reynolds, reached a settlement that brought her civil lawsuit against the girl’s father, Justin DiPietro,...

A 4-year-old girl was struck and killed by an SUV while outside of her day care last week in North Berwick, Maine, according to police. North Berwick police said they were called to Buffum Road arond 4:46 p.m. Thursday for a report of a child who had been struck by a vehicle. Responding emergency personnel arrived at the scene to…

The Maine State Police released a report on Friday describing the lessons learned after the state’s largest mass shooting and making multiple recommendations for improvements in tactical response, incident management, training and other areas. The agency called the report an “after action review” and said one of its goals was to identify areas for improvement stemming from the response...

A Maine man was killed Wednesday night after he crashed his minivan into a state police cruiser and was thrown from his vehicle. State police said Trooper Ryan Murry was parked in his marked cruiser off the road in a gravel turnout off Route 180 in Ellsworth just after 7:30 p.m. when his cruiser was struck by a vehicle. Preliminary…

A Rembrandt discovered in the attic of a Maine estate recently sold for $1.4 million at auction.

A baby girl was rescued from an opioid overdose in Mexico, Maine, and a man, out of jail on bail, was arrested, officials said Tuesday. The 9-month-old, who was rushed to Rumford Hospital and then Maine Medical Center, responded to the overdose-reversing drug Narcan in the incident Monday, the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office said. She also tested positive for...

An early morning fire on Sunday destroyed a popular seafood restaurant in the mid-coast Maine town of Damariscotta, the fire department said. No one was injured in the fire at the Schooner Landing and Marina, fire officials said. The cause of the fire had not been determined. Schooner Landing, on the Damariscotta River in the quaint downtown, featured indoor and…

Three people were injured in a golf cart rollover in Maine on Thursday. According to St. George Fire and Rescue, three people were struck and injured by a golf cart in Port Clyde, a village of St. George. They were taken by ambulance to Pen Bay Medical Center and are expected to survive. The Penobscot Bay Pilot reported that the…

The Department of Homeland Security released a new report this week that suggests the gunman who shot and killed 18 people in Lewiston, Maine, last October could have been stalking his ex-coworkers at the Maine Recycling Corp. in Lisbon to ambush them, according to the Portland Press Herald. While there were cameras at the main facility, the report revealed that…

A man who was shot and killed by police on the Interstate 95 bridge at the New Hampshire-Maine state line is believed to have killed his wife in western New Hampshire overnight, and authorities said his 8-year-old son was also found shot to death inside his vehicle.

A 32-year-old man is facing multiple charges after he allegedly tried to rob a post office branch just outside of downtown Portland, Maine, on Monday. Portland police said they responded to the post office on Forest Avenue around 6:30 p.m. Monday for a report of a robbery. A man had allegedly approached the counter and demanded the register be opened,…

Independent presidential candidate Cornel West can appear on the ballot in Maine, the state’s secretary of state has ruled. Shenna Bellows’ decision came Tuesday, about a week after the withdrawal of a challenge to another long-shot candidate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The presence of multiple third-party candidates on the Maine ballot is potentially significant because the state uses ranked...

Nearly 10 months after the deadliest shooting in Maine history, in which an Army reservist killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar and grill in Lewiston, the independent body tasked with investigating what happened has released its final report. The Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston found that both the Army Reserve and…