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The website WalletHub has released a report on 2021’s Best & Worst Cities for Singles, and Portland has made the Best List, coming in at #8. The site determined where singles have the highest chance of finding love and compared more than 180 U.S. cities across 32 key indicators of dating-friendliness. The data set ranges …
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The Department of Public Safety and the Unified Crime Reporting Division of the Maine State Police have released crime statistics for Maine for 2020. Crime in Maine decreased -6.1% during 2020. It is the ninth consecutive year that crime has dropped in the state. The total number of both adults and juveniles summoned or cited by police …
Scarborough dispatcher Amanda Marden, who is certified and licensed emergency medical dispatcher, this week received a 911 call from a family in Old Orchard Beach. It turns out a woman was in active labor. Marden ended up helping the family deliver a healthy baby boy while waiting for the first responders to arrive. As you …
All three men who chased and killed Ahmaud Arbery in Georgia in Feb. 2020, have been found guilty of murder. Greg McMichael, son Travis McMichael and neighbor William “Roddie” Bryan face minimum sentences of life in prison. #BREAKING: Greg McMichael and his son, Travis McMichael, who pursued Ahmaud Arbery, have been convicted of murder. The …
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Steven Mathis, 32, of Winterport has been arrested in Texas and extradited back to Maine to face criminal charges of child abuse and exploitation. Mathis was interviewed and confessed to sexually abusing several identified children along with uploading images of the abuse online and disseminating the images to various people. An electronic device was seized …
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Mark Penley was sentenced today to two concurrent life sentences in the killing of Heather Bickford and her boyfriend, Dana Hill. They were killed in their South Paris apartment on New Year’s Day 2019. Penley was sentenced at Oxford County Superior Court. #UPDATE: A Maine man who killed his ex-girlfriend and her boyfriend so “no …
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Sarah Huntington, 32, of Sabattus was arrested and charged with arson after being accused of setting a fire that damaged a Walgreens pharmacy in Auburn this morning, Nov. 23. There was some structural damage and significant smoke damage to the Union Street building. Huntington is also charged with and aggravated criminal mischief and is being …
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The Skowhegan area is getting ready for the holiday season with the upcoming Skowhegan Shop Small Week and SKOW-Whoville. Skowhegan Shop Small Week runs Nov. 27 – Dec. 4 and SKOW-Whoville is scheduled for Dec. 3-4. Both events are organized by Main Street Skowhegan and supported by nearly two dozen local business sponsors. Skowhegan Shop …
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Maine State Police, along with other law enforcement agencies, are investigating a large number of vehicle burglaries that have occurred in the past two weeks. The majority of these crimes have occurred overnight and all of the vehicles targeted have been cars with vehicle doors left unlocked. In several of these cases credit cards, cash, …
Saturday afternoon, Nov. 20, Maine State Police responded to a single vehicle crash at mile 100 on I-95 in Litchfield at the West Gardiner Toll Plaza. Upon investigation it was discovered that a vehicle traveling southbound crashed into a guardrail, redirected itself back onto the highway and then struck the center pylon at the toll …
