Maine

The Maine Turnpike northbound in York was temporarily shut down due to a multiple vehicle crash, state police said. State police sent an alert about the crash at 5:30 p.m., saying traffic was being diverted off the Kittery rest area exit. There was no immediate word on injuries. 🚧 TRAFFIC ALERT 🚧 A multi-vehicle crash going northbound on the Turnpike…

Fire officials say employees at a day care in Kittery, Maine, helped prevent a tragedy by quickly evacuating children who began feeling sick during a carbon monoxide incident on Wednesday....

Seven people from the Building Blocks Learning Center on Route 236 were hospitalized Wednesday afternoon but none were seriously injured....

The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office said staff at the day care noticed...

Police in Lincoln, Maine, shot and killed a man on Wednesday night after he lunged at officers with a knife. Lincoln police said officers from their department responded to a trespassing complaint at an address on Whalen Street at 8:36 p.m. Wednesday. The caller said a man they identified as Derek Beach was there despite an active protection from abuse…

Two drivers were killed when a truck lost control and crashed into oncoming traffic on the Maine Turnpike during wintry weather Thursday morning, police said.

The highway was shut down in both directions in Ogunquit on Thursday morning due to the crash.

Seven people were taken to hospitals from a day care in Kittery, Maine, on Wednesday, local fire officials said. None of the patients had life-threatening or serious injuries. The incident at Building Blocks day care on Route 236 was reported as potentially involving carbon monoxide at about 3:19 p.m., Kittery firefighters said. The state fire marshal’s office was set to...

Emergency crews were called to a Goodwill store in Maine on Tuesday morning after a box containing possible military grenades and mortars was discovered among some donated items. Augusta police said they were called to the Goodwill store at 5 Senator Way for a report of a suspicious box with possible military grenades and mortars inside. There were no threats…

A man was arrested on a murder charge hours after the discovery of two stricken people, one dead, at a central Maine home, police said Saturday. The incident was reported about 11:30 p.m. Friday at a Norridgewock home on Walnut Drive, Maine State Police said, and, inside, Somerset County sheriff’s deputies found a male who was deceased and another who...

A woman from Rhode Island died in a crash on Interstate 95 in Palmyra, Maine, Saturday morning, police said.

One person was injured in a shooting at the Maine Mall on Wednesday. Police say the suspect remains on the loose.

The man wanted for allegedly shooting someone at the popular Maine Mall in South Portland Wednesday has turned himself in, police said Thursday. Ahmed Basheer Awad, of Westbrook, surrendered outside the Cumberland County Jail about 3:30 p.m. Thursday, police said. It’s about 24 hours after the shooting took place. Awad was booked on charges of aggravated assault, reckless conduct with…

A person was shot inside the popular Maine Mall Wednesday, and the suspected shooter, who fled, was being sought by police, officials said. South Portland police urged the public to avoid the area of the mall as they searched for the suspect in the incident, which appears to be isolated. The person who was shot was rushed to Maine Medical...

A police dog shot while trying to stop a domestic violence suspect at the end of a long standoff in Portage, Maine, on Monday died hours later, officials said Tuesday.

A man was killed by Maine State Police after he shot and wounded a sheriff’s deputy and a police dog at the end of an hourslong standoff in the northern town of Portage, officials said.

An investigation is underway after a large fire destroyed a Maine Turnpike Authority garage located just off Interstate 95 on Sunday. The State Fire Marshal’s Office said a 911 call was placed shortly before 6 p.m. Sunday reporting a fire at the garage located off the side of I-95 and Hackett Road in Auburn. Upon arrival, the Auburn Fire Department…

A crew of divers was able to recover a body from a boat that sunk last month off the coast of Maine. News Center Maine reported Sunday that the volunteer team of divers recovered a body from the scallop vessel Sudden Impact. Father and son Chester and Aaron Barrett left Cobsook Bay State Park early Jan. 18, and did not...

Three people led police on a car chase through multiple Maine towns on Monday afternoon after one of them robbed an elderly woman of her jewelry in her home and then fled. State police said an elderly woman called 911 around 3:57 p.m. Monday to report a robbery at her home on McCard Road in Corinth. A man, later identified...

People in Boston and across New England felt the rare earthquake that struck just off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire Monday morning, which a local scientist described as a once-every-five-year event. ...

To one local, it sounded like a jumbo jet flying under the ground — we found video of a bartender feel the shaking as he poured a glass...

A 3.8-magnitude earthquake rattled New England on Monday morning and was felt from Connecticut all the way north to New Hampshire.

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New Englanders are reacting after an earthquake struck off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire Monday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey rated the shaking as a magnitude 3.8, downgraded from the initial magnitude of 4.1. “I was outside with the dog, and the trees were shuddering,” explained NBC10 Boston’s Pete Bouchard. “Long, steady rumbling like there was blasting nearby….

The Boston area shook from a rare, but minor, earthquake Monday morning. The U.S. Geological Survey rated the shaking as a magnitude 3.8, downgraded from the initial magnitude of 4.1. It was centered off the coast of New Hampshire and Maine in York Harbor, about 12 miles underground. While not destructive, and fairly common in areas with more seismic activity…