PORTLAND (AP) — Scientists with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are using a computer model to re-create the conditions of an apartment fire that killed six people in Portland in November. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/1GLfGd2 ) reported that the computer model could provide answers about how the fire started, why it […]
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Driver in fatal crash in Fryeburg last week dies
FRYEBURG — The truck driver in a Dec. 9 fatal crash in Fryeburg has died, according to police Chief Joshua Potvin. Paul Cundiff, 64, of Porter died Tuesday morning at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston from injuries sustained in the crash, police said. He had been in critical condition since the accident. Rhonda Robblee, […]
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Truck-safety advocate criticizes Collins on budget fix additions
LEWISTON — The founder of Parents Against Tired Truckers said provisions that Sen. Susan Collins wants to add to a federal budget bill would “jeopardize the safety of everyone.” Daphne Izer of Lisbon, whose teenage son was killed by a trucker who fell asleep at the wheel in October 1993, said relaxing rest standards for […]
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Two die in Dover-Foxcroft crash Thursday
DOVER-FOXCROFT (AP) — Two people are dead after a Thanksgiving morning crash in Dover-Foxcroft. Police told WVII-TV (http://bit.ly/1toyvwh ) that a car went of control on a slush-covered Route 15 just after 10 a.m. Thursday and collided with a pickup truck. Both occupants of the car died. They were identified as 71-year-old William Viney of Sangerville, […]
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N.H. man dies in Bethel ATV rollover
BETHEL (AP) — Authorities say one man is dead after an all-terrain vehicle rolled over in Bethel. The Oxford County Sheriff’s Office says the victim of the accident at about 2 p.m. Sunday was a 42-year-old man from New Hampshire, but authorities did not immediately make his name public. He was not wearing a helmet. […]
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Two teen victims of Hiram car crash identified
HIRAM (AP) — The two teenagers who died in a car crash near Sacopee Valley High School in Hiram last weekend were recent graduates of the school. Police on Monday identified the victims of the crash at about 2 a.m. Saturday as 18-year-old Andrew Stanley, of Porter, and 19-year-old Isaac Moore, of Parsonfield. Stanley was […]
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13-year-old girl killed by train in Massachusetts
LAWRENCE, Mass. — A 13-year-old girl who was crossing a set of train tracks with a friend was hit and killed by a commuter train in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Carrie Kimball Monahan, of the Essex District Attorney’s office, says in a statement that the accident happened Friday afternoon. The girls were cutting between two cars of […]
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Fatal hayride operator’s recycling company frequently cited for truck-safety violations
CITATIONS: Read the Re-Harvest Driver Vehicle Examination reports LEWISTON — A company that’s part of the same corporate structure as Harvest Hill Farms has a lengthy record of citations for vehicle-safety violations, according to public records obtained by the Sun Journal. According to a Maine State Police supervisor, the company’s safety rating is among the worst […]
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Trial lawyer suggests fatal hayride wagon too heavy
LEWISTON — The Jeep pulling a hayride trailer that overturned, resulting in one death and many injuries Saturday, was ill-equipped to tow the trailer, according to a lawyer who specializes in cases involving hayride victims. Jeffrey Reiff of Philadelphia wrote in a website posting that the 1979 Jeep CJ5 had a towing capacity of 2,000 […]
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Two people killed in Saturday afternoon crash on Route 4 in Livermore
LIVERMORE — Two people were killed and another was injured in a noontime car accident Saturday on Route 4. Two vehicles — a minivan and an SUV — collided head-on, Lt. Glenn Holt of the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Department said. The crash was reported at 12:07 p.m. near 1273 Federal Road (Route 4) in Livermore. […]