West Bath woman dies in wreck on Maine Turnpike, police say

SACO (WGAN) Police say a crash involving a tractor-trailer and two other vehicles on the Maine Turnpike resulted in the death of a woman from West Bath Monday night.

Police asking for information related to I-95 crash in York

A fatal single-vehicle crash on the Turnpike in York is under investigation.

Buckfield homeowner charged after mobile home goes up in flames

A homeowner has been charged after fire destroyed a mobile home in Buckfield over the weekend.

Shots fired at Lewiston apartment building, police search for suspect

Lewiston police are investigating after multiple gunshots were fired into an apartment on Pine St. early Sunday morning.

Recent endangered whale deaths put pressure on officials to act before species goes extinct.

2 North Atlantic right whales died from human related causes over the past month, adding to the debate over whether to favor the survival of the critically endangered species or the Maine lobstering industry.

Maine gunman says reservists were worried he was going to do something because ‘I am capable’

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) An Army reservist responsible for Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told state police in New York before his hospitalization last summer that fellow soldiers were worried about him because he was ”gonna friggin’ do something.”

Maine police defend search for gunman who killed 18 last fall, saying they feared an ambush

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) Maine state police on Thursday defended their search last fall for a gunman who had just killed 18 people, saying they didn’t rush to search woods surrounding his abandoned car because they feared a late-night ambush.

Even voters in independent-minded Maine are taking sides in a polarized nation

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) The state of Maine’s long-cherished reputation for political independence is being threatened by the nation’s polarized politics, with more and more of its voters feeling pressured to take sides.

Maine mass-shooting was ‘unique’ because of multiple locations, manhunt, police chief tells panel

AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) In the unfortunate history of U.S. mass shootings, the Lewiston massacre in which 18 people were killed was “extremely unique and extremely challenging” because it involved two separate locations followed by an intense search, Maine state’s police chief told a panel investigating the shooting Thursday.

Gunfire at Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration kills 1 and wounds nearly two-dozen, including children

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A historic railway station on the edge of downtown Kansas City became the latest backdrop…