An online ancestry test helped locate Luis Armando Albino, who was 6 in 1951 when a woman kidnapped him, flying him to the East Coast where he ended up with a couple who raised him as their own son.

The first report came in just before 7 p.m., police said, when rounds were reported fired behind a mosque on Bartlett Street. At the time, a community event with hundreds of people was taking place at Mike McGraw Park in the same area.

A Massachusetts judge has ruled that Karen Read can be re-tried for murder and leaving the scene where her Boston police officer boyfriend died.

Authorities found a gun in the motor vehicle Bret Binette was driving.

Rumford police have been publicizing the final results of criminal cases on Facebook, causing some to question why so many cases are dropped in court system.

Larry Wayne Cole III is wanted in Tennessee in connection with the stabbing of his husband in a Walmart in Gallatin, Tennessee.

In June, a jury found Michael Kilgore, 48, guilty of assault on an officer and assault, but returned not guilty verdicts on several other charges from the September 2022 incident.

Darren Mitchell of Brunswick was taken to Maine Medical Center after suffering a gunshot wound to the leg. He is in stable condition. A Wiscasset man was arrested on unrelated charges as police investigated.

A month before the fatal shooting occurred, the student had been expelled from the school for ongoing issues with professors after receiving a bad grade.

Police say Jeremy P. Proctor wielded a knife and then a tire iron at the Auburn store.

Cote Noonan, 33, was arrested in 2023 after police say they found thousands of explicit images of young children. He faces up to 20 years in federal prison on each of two counts and up to $250,000 in fines.

The flashing blue lights atop poles in some Maine parking lots are designed to deter criminals, but some question the balance of safety vs. privacy.

Aristotle Stilley was extradited from California in 2020 for allegedly killing David Anderson and wounding another man at an apartment on Gilman Street in 2016. But Stilley says the state has the wrong man.

The original proposal sought to treat substance use as a public health issue and would have set up receiving centers to help people dealing with a crisis.

A San Diego man is arrested for brings HFCs - hydrofluorocarbons - into the U.S. One expert calls it a 'climate crime.'

An autopsy performed Tuesday found that Justin Iraola died from multiple gunshot wounds, police said.

Deputies respond to disturbance in Minot on Valentine's Day, discovering a home on fire and a man with a gun.

Multiple law enforcement agencies, led by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office, executed a search warrant at a home on Betterment Road in Norridgewock, leading to the arrest of Zunjie Wu, 26, of Brooklyn, New York.

No arrests were made because no one was at the Rome Road home when the raid was carried out, but officials say charges are expected after the occupants are located.

U.S. marshals, along with Lewiston and Maine State Police, said they found Alyalia Chaibounmingkhouan, 19, in Lewiston arrested her on a warrant charging her with trying to kill a man.