BETHEL — Police on Monday identified the woman killed in a multicar accident on Route 2 on Sunday afternoon as Arlene Shepler, 60, of Randolph, Vt. Shepler was killed instantly after her 2006 Audi collided with two vehicles, Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant said. Shepler was traveling east with her husband, David Shepler. Their car […]
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Man charged with manslaughter in Winthrop crash
WINTRHOP (AP) — A Scarborough man has been charged with manslaughter in a November car crash in that killed a Winthrop couple. The Kennebec Journal reported (http://bit.ly/1s65l4R ) that 44-year-old Jeffrey Ray was indicted on double manslaughter charges Wednesday. Police say that Patricia and Napoleon Richard St. Laurent’s van was stopped while waiting to make […]
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Judge orders release of 911 call from fatal shooting in Windham by deputy
PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine judge has ordered state officials to release a transcript of a 911 call made by a woman whose husband was killed by a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy in April. The Portland Press Herald reported (http://bit.ly/1qYbeVU ) that Justice Thomas Warren ordered the state Tuesday to give the transcript to the […]
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Three dead in car, RV crash in southwest New Hampshire
STODDARD, N.H. — State Police say three people are dead after a sedan crossed into oncoming traffic on Route 9 in southwestern New Hampshire and smashed into an RV. State Police say in a press release that a Honda Accord was traveling westbound near Stoddard at about 2:15 p.m. Saturday when it crossed into the […]
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Two teens killed in Boothbay Harbor crash
BOOTHBAY HARBOR (AP) — Police are continuing to investigate a crash in Boothbay Harbor that left two teenagers dead. The Lincoln County Sheriff’s office said the teens were in an SUV that was traveling at a high rate of speed when it went off Route 27 early Wednesday morning and struck several trees. The driver, […]
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Police hunt for 2 who carjacked SUV, killed 3 kids
PHILADELPHIA — Police were searching for two men who carjacked an SUV and plowed into a group of children and adults selling fruit to raise money for their church, killing three kids and critically injuring their mother and the carjacking victim. Another woman was hurt but is in stable condition. The men carjacked a real […]
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Skowhegan man dies in apparent logging accident in Chesterville
CHESTERVILLE — A Skowhegan man likely died instantly Friday when a branch fell and struck him as he was working alone in the woods, Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said. He said the logging accident was reported at about 3:25 p.m. by an acquaintance who found the body of Seymour Charles, 54. Evidence at […]
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Corinna town manager dies in ATV crash
MOSCOW — Corinna’s town manager died Sunday afternoon in an all-terrain vehicle accident in Moscow. Kimberly Anne Godsoe, 38, of Hartland had been riding on a trail near Deadwater Road when the crash occurred at about 12:30 p.m. Before becoming Corinna’s town manager in 2011, Godsoe served as the St. Albans town manager’s administrative assistant […]
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Report: Maine led nation for share of fatal car crashes on rural roads
PORTLAND — A national report found 98 percent of Maine’s fatal car crashes occurred on rural, non-interstate roads in 2012 as the amount of rural road pavement in poor condition rose about 9 percentage points from three years prior. The percentage of deficient rural bridges rose one point from the 2009 report. The latest rural […]
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Two dead Sunday in Biddeford shooting
BIDDEFORD (AP) — State police say two men are dead after an apparent shooting in an apartment in Biddeford. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said Biddeford police were called to an apartment house on Western Avenue for a shooting around 7 p.m. Sunday. He said one man died at Maine Medical Center […]