With life-threatening wind chills, whiteouts and as much as 2 feet of snow expected, schools, offices and the Portland airport close.
David Hench
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Lawmakers pushing to end Maine state jail consolidation
A plan to return control of jails to counties has a big price tag for some, but means opportunity for others.
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Two Noble High School students face expulsion following bomb threat
The students allegedly used Twitter to direct a bomb threat at the schools on Jan. 14.
Posted inCops & Courts, Nation & World, News
Maine police look for man wanted in killing of his wife in Michigan
Harold ‘Butch’ Knight and Sara Lee Knight lived in Turner for several years, and police say he has been seen in Maine since the killing.
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Old Orchard Beach fire leads to discovery of 102 marijuana plants
An overloaded extension cord used in the growing operation started a fire at 36 Atlantic Ave.
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Deadly Portland fire was caused by cigarette butt, investigators say
The Noyes Street building where six young people died had no working smoke detectors, says Portland Fire Chief Jerome LaMoria.
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Kennebunk man charged with threatening family with knife
William C. Day, 40 of Fletcher Street, turned himself in to Kennebunk police early Tuesday morning after search.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Police search for pair of robbers who hit two Key Bank branches in Portland
The same two people, wearing masks made to look like old men, were last seen getting into a car on Brook Road.
Posted inPolitics
Maine Board of Corrections frozen as LePage halts nominations
The governor objects to the structure of the jail system and won’t ‘throw good money … after bad.’
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Portland police investigating death of infant
Police were called to a home on Leland Street this morning.