People chant and wave signs on the grand staircase between second and third floors during a gun control rally on Thursday in the State House Hall of Flags in Augusta.
Gardiner Public Library is in the background as the USCGC Tackle breaks ice Thursday in the Kennebec River between Randolph and Gardiner.
Murder defendant Sharon Carrillo of Stockton Springs is led into Waldo Superior Court in Belfast on Wednesday. Carrillo and her husband, Julio Carrillo, are charged in the death of her 10-year-old daughter, Marissa Kennedy, last weekend.
A state trooper blocks the entrance to Mount View School complex in Thorndike on Wednesday as firefighters work at the entrance of the high school. Students and staff evacuated the buildings after a student released pepper spray.
SAD 54 School Resource Officer David Daigneault, center, leads a Skowhegan Area High School student in handcuffs on Thursday, March 1, 2018. Another student is placed in a cruiser in background. Three students were detained following threats to the school that resulted in a lock out earlier in the day. Two students later were arrested.
Trooper Jacob Roddy gathers evidence Monday from a demolished vehicle involved in an crash with a truck, background, on West River Road in Sidney. The roadway was blocked.
Hall-Dale captain Owen Dupont whips around the net as the Bulldogs celebrate winning the Class C South final game on Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Augusta Civic Civic.
Monmouth Academy basketball players react late in the Class C South final game on Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Augusta Civic Civic.
Marine Patrol Officer Chad Webster confers Tuesday with David Beckwith, of Richmond, on the Kennebec River in Dresden. Beckwith said he drilled through 20 inches of ice on the river to jig for smelt. Webster said he likes to check on recreational anglers while patrolling his new district.
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