ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — A Maine man convicted of raping and killing a former high school classmate is due to be sentenced. Jalique Keene was captured on surveillance video carrying the woman over his shoulder as she kicked her legs and later carrying her lifeless body to the woods where her body was found. The […]
YORK, Maine (AP) — The Maine Bureau of Highway Safety is coordinating increased traffic enforcement for Labor Day weekend. The bureau has funneled federal highway safety money to 37 Maine police departments for increased enforcement for the last big weekend of the summer. The effort is part of the national campaign called “Drive Sober or […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine leaders are looking at ways to make health care more affordable and accessible in the wake of voter-approved Medicaid expansion. Democratic Gov. Janet Mills is bringing together health care providers, advocates, leaders and experts for a Thursday forum in Portland. The public can watch a live-stream. Mills says Maine has […]
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Maine says it should be able to release a cause of death soon in the case of a body found in Greenland Cove near Bremen. The Maine Marine Patrol announced the discovery of the body of a man on Monday. A spokesman for […]
MOUNT DESERT, Maine (AP) — Police say a man has been killed in a head-on collision on Maine’s Mount Desert Island. Police tell WABI-TV that 72-year-old Edward Wells, of Bar Harbor, was pronounced dead at the scene Tuesday afternoon in the town of Mount Desert. Police report that the driver of a vehicle that crossed […]
BREWER, Maine (AP) — A Maine company that spun off from the University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Center aims to make bridge construction faster, cheaper and more durable. Advanced Infrastructure Technologies in Brewer has created a composite bridge support that will be used for the first time next year for the new Grist […]
Federal agriculture officials are set to disperse rabies vaccine baits targeted at raccoons across a wide swath of northeast Maine. The U.S. Department of Agriculture will spread the baits over a 2,405-square-mile area by land and air-drops between Saturday and Aug. 7. Raccoons have the highest number of rabies cases in the eastern U.S. A […]
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — It’s been a slow lobster season so far in Maine, but the lack of crustaceans isn’t translating into high prices for consumers, and fishermen are still hopeful for a bump in catch this summer. The harvest of the valuable bottom dwellers in America’s biggest lobstering state is usually in full swing […]
ELLSWORTH, Maine (AP) — Police say the driver of a pick-up truck has died following a crash. WABI-TV reports that the man died at the scene of the Thursday afternoon crash on Route 1A in Ellsworth. Police have not released the man’s name. A passenger of that truck and the driver of another vehicle received […]
WATERBORO, Maine (AP) — Maine State Police detectives are investigating the deaths of a couple from Waterboro as a murder-suicide. Police says the bodies of Christal and Christopher Denis, who were both 45, were found in their home on New Dam Road just before 8 p.m. Saturday by York County deputies who had been called […]
