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The blast that shook the Farmington community Monday, leaving a fire captain dead and seven others injured, also left 30 people homeless who lived in 11 mobile homes in a park near the LEAP Inc. building.
Carrier Nicholas Claudel does not consider himself a hero: ‘I look at myself as a servant;' he and Joseph Arsenault Jr. have been honored multiple times for their Jan. 2 actions.
Family and friends of Melissa Sousa, 29, say her boyfriend and the father of their children, Nicholas Lovejoy, 28, was mentally unstable and could not take knowing she was leaving him.
Melissa Sousa, 29, of 32 Gold St., was killed last week, allegedly by Nicholas Lovejoy, 28, her longtime live-in boyfriend and the father of the couple's 8-year-old twin daughters.
Justice Robert Mullen gives the 31-year-old Madison man the maximum sentence, rejecting arguments that Williams' drug abuse and troubled childhood were mitigating factors.
The officer pulled over a man in connection with a shoplifting incident at Walmart in Waterville, and seven officers fired on the suspect in the ensuing shootout, Maine State Police say.
Richard Murray-Burns, 29, of Hartland allegedly initiated a car chase and shooting after Waterville police pulled him over Sunday after a report of shoplifting at Walmart.
The Skowhegan-area journalist was remembered by colleagues and community members as a tough-minded reporter who closely covered the community and enjoyed life's pleasures.
Fellow firefighters and town officials said Capt. Scott Higgins' loss will be felt statewide and that he was a consummate professional who also ran a Christmas tree farm.
Jen Gagnon, the youngest daughter of the late Jim Lane, thanked all who were in attendance for her father's celebration of life on Sunday afternoon. Gagnon says the last few weeks have been an emotional roller coaster for her and her family, but that the love and support from the community has been great.
Officials say a nasty, intentionally deployed virus shut down public safety computers and made the city's entire network unusable, but the phone system and public safety radio system were not affected.
City officials, rather than pay off the apparent creator of malicious software that froze up the city's computer network and forced Augusta City Center to close April 18, instead pulled the plug and rebuilt its network from backup data.
Police Department computers are back up and running, City Center is expected to reopen Monday, and Hatch Hill landfill and Augusta Civic Center regained the ability to take credit card payments, just in time for the Kora Shrine Circus on Friday.
Authorities said Friday there were no updates three weeks after police discovered Andrew Sherman's death and 10 days after the death was classified as a homicide.
A search for details of the life of Anneliese Heinig, the missing mother of two from Richmond, reveal a woman who is loved by family and friends but who also has struggled and had a history of conflict involving law enforcement.
A Maine State Police spokeswoman says charges are pending against a driver whose vehicle reportedly crossed the centerline before striking and killing two people Saturday night.
Reza Namin, who made waves throughout the course of his one-year term as superintendent of School Administrative District 49, wrote in an email Tuesday to school staff that he has accepted a position with another organization.
With a ground breaking planned for April, officials at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Kennebec Valley aim to raise the remaining $3 million to pay for the new, larger facility in Gardiner.
Bridge, longtime owner and president of construction company Bridgecorp, led and funded efforts to build the Kennebec Valley YMCA and encouraged philanthropy in others by giving himself.
The attorney for Reynolds' mother is running a legal notice in the Morning Sentinel for three consecutive Tuesdays, starting April 2, to serve Justin DiPietro with a wrongful death suit.
Stores that are 10,000-square-feet in size or larger may no longer dispense plastic bags to customers at check-out, as required by the city of Waterville's plastic bag ordinance.
Maine will join four other states with bag bans when the legislation takes effect on April 22, 2020, Earth Day. The delay is designed to give businesses time to adjust.
Testimony, including in-depth discussion about how difficult it is to play the card game pinochle, wraps up in a new competency hearing for Eric Bard, a Sidney man convicted of raping a 4-year-old girl.
An official from the Judicial Responsibility and Disability Committee said the process for disciplining judges is largely confidential, while it is public for lawyers.
The permit from the Public Utilities Commission is a milestone in Central Maine Power's effort to build the 145-mile project to deliver renewable energy from Canada to Massachusetts.
The Maine Department of Transportation could skirt liability for creating potentially hazardous or fatal conditions after contractor SHOem Roadway Services LLC incorrectly laid fog seal on the road in June.
Ryan Beaudette, who admitted to stealing $150,000 from the Litchfield Farmers' Club, has repaid some of that and was ordered to make effort to pay $129,000 in restitution as part of his probation conditions.