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Police in Maine and New Hampshire are searching for two Maine women with intellectual disabilities who are lost and driving around Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Kimberly Pushard Courtesy Maine Department of Public Safety

Maine State Police issued a silver alert and New Hampshire State Police activated the missing vulnerable adult alert system to ask for the public’s assistance in locating Kimberly Pushard, 51, and Angela Bussell, 50. They were reported missing by the Topsham Police Department at 12:36 a.m. Wednesday.

Pushard’s and Bussell’s families told police the women are intellectually disabled, easily disoriented, have trouble processing information and are prone to be confused by directions.

Pushard is driving her red 2012 Jeep Compass with Maine registration 1960VC with Bussell as a passenger, police said.

Angela Bussell Courtesy Maine Department of Public Safety

They were last seen Tuesday evening when they had contact with Exeter police and several other New Hampshire law enforcement agencies, who all attempted to give them directions to return home.

Pushard’s cell phone last pinged in Candia and Raymond, New Hampshire, but is now powered off.

Anyone who has contact with the women is asked to call the Exeter Police Department at 603-772-1212.

Gillian Graham reports on social services for the Portland Press Herald, covering topics including child welfare, homelessness, food insecurity, poverty and mental health. A lifelong Mainer and graduate...

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