A Maine State Police detective has been in Boston to assist the investigators looking for the bombing suspects
April 2013
Suspect brothers a study in contrasts
The older had become a more devout Muslim; the younger is recalled as friendly and down-to-earth.
Mainers react to manhunt in Boston
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Boston travel: Trains, buses halted, planes flying
By Friday evening, authorities had lifted the stay-indoors warning for people in the Boston area, and the transit system started running again.
Police find 14 bodies at Texas fireball site
At least three who died in the fertilizer facility blast were firefighters, their family members say.
Senators want ship to be named after Maine’s Portland, too
Currently, the USS Portland, an amphibious transport dock ship, is named after the city of Portland, Ore.
St. Albans man dead in one-car accident
Austin E. Field, 18, of St. Albans died Friday after the car he was driving struck a tree on Mountain View Road.
Boston suspects’ father: ‘They were set up’
The father of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing describes his youngest son as smart, talented and accomplished.
Timeline: the hunt for Boston’s bombing suspects
A chronology of events leading up to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arrest on Friday evening.
Watertown residents describe ‘war zone’
WATERTOWN, Mass. — Watertown residents say it was like being in a “war zone” when they were woken in the middle of the night during a shootout between police and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Retired couple Albert and Anna Lanzo heard gunfire and a large boom that shook their house and lit up the […]