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New Gloucester woman an encourager, former teacher says

AUBURN —  Tara Chase was remembered Monday for her positive attitude and contagious smile. The 20-year-old New Gloucester resident died in a car crash early Monday morning on Riverside Drive. Her former teacher, Dan Caron of The Green Ladle Culinary Arts School at the Lewiston Regional Technical Center said she was task-oriented and volunteered for […]

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No deaths in 70-car pileup in Worcester

Massachusetts State Police say a crash involving 65 cars and three tractor-trailers closed Interstate 290 in Worcester at about 7 a.m. About 35 to 40 people were taken to local hospitals. Two were seriously injured. Both directions of the highway were reopened by 11:45 a.m., authorities said. Sergeant Stephen Marsh compared the road to a […]

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Multiple casualties in New York train derailment

Some of the 100 to 150 passengers on the early morning Metro-North train from suburban Poughkeepsie to Manhattan said they were jolted awake around 7:20 a.m. to screams and the frightening sensation of their compartment rolling over on a bend where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet in the Bronx. When the motion stopped, four […]

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Winthrop crash kills local man, injures two others

WINTHROP — A local man was killed Thursday morning, and two others were injured in a collision that shut down Route 202 for nearly four hours, according to police. Richard St. Laurent, 80, of Winthrop was apparently trying to make a left turn from Route 202 onto Royal Street when his van was rear-ended by […]

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Fort Fairfield woman, 19, dies from injuries in Easton car crash

A 19-year-old Fort Fairfield woman who was injured last month in a head-on crash on Route 1A in Easton has died from her injuries, Maine State Police reported Saturday afternoon. Abigail Ladner died Friday afternoon at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor, where she was flown after the Oct. 27 crash in Easton, state police […]

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Woman strikes parked car, flips vehicle in Waterville

WATERVILLE — A Windsor woman was fortunate to escape injury Thursday night after her vehicle struck a parked car on West River Road and flipped onto its roof, police said. Callie Thompson, 22, was headed northbound when she apparently took her eyes off the road to adjust a radio dial, Deputy Chief Charles Rumsey said. […]

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Chesterville woman injured in rollover

CHESTERVILLE — A woman was injured Friday morning when her SUV went into a ditch, hit some rocks and rolled over on Sanborn Hill Road, Cpl. Christopher Chase of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department said. Jill Tibbetts, 42, of Chesterville told Chase she swerved to avoid deer crossing the road at about 8:50 a.m., he […]

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New Sharon man pleads guilty in OUI case

FARMINGTON — A New Sharon man pleaded guilty to drunken driving Thursday for crashing a truck on Weeks Mills Road in New Sharon in June. Adam King, 20, and a 15-year-old New Sharon boy, a passenger in the vehicle, were injured when King lost control of the truck and it ended up in a ditch […]