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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
State trooper forces car to stop traveling wrong way on turnpike
State police encountered a northbound car traveling in the southbound lane of Interstate 95 in Sabattus about 10 p.m. Monday. The trooper pulled his cruiser alongside the car and forced it into the median guardrail. A state trooper was slightly injured Monday night when he was forced to drive his cruiser into a car headed […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Police say minister shot daughter in Hebron murder-suicide
Update: ‘Anita, it’s all your fault’: Pastor’s message to wife before killing his daughter and himself Updated 2:32 p.m.: HEBRON — Police said that the minister who killed his daughter and then shot himself Thursday at a home on Marshall Pond Road had been served with divorce papers earlier this week. Daniel Randall, 56, shot his […]
Posted inLocal & State, sj-web
Justin Chenette wants public hearing on how state police monitors social media
PORTLAND — The Maine State Police should explain whether it is using social media to monitor what the public says online, according to a state representative who is calling for a public hearing. A member of the state legislative committee that oversees law enforcement said he could not recall the state police briefing him on […]
Posted inBethel, Franklin, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
Police add patrols for holiday weekend
GRAY — State police plan to have additional troopers on patrol and a plane in the air for the long Thanksgiving weekend, according to a news release. Chief of the state police, Col. Robert Williams, said troopers will look for aggressive, impaired and texting drivers. In addition, troopers will also look for seat-belt violators, following […]
Posted inRiver Valley
State Police settle in Woodstock base
WOODSTOCK — Maine State Police will have a greater presence in Woodstock after settling into an office at 366 Route 232, Town Manager Vern Maxfield told selectmen at their meeting Tuesday. Maxfield said PACE ambulance employees and one or two state troopers will use the building for the foreseeable future. The town volunteered the building […]
Posted inFranklin, sj-web
One dead, two injured in Rangeley
RANGELEY — State Police say one man is dead and two others have been injured in a confrontation at a home in Rangeley early this morning, according to Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety on Thursday. Several people are being questions by detectives, he said in a release. The two injured […]
Posted inOxford Hills, sj-web
Woman killed in head-on crash in Porter
PORTER — A woman died in a head-on crash a half-mile from Kezar Falls Bridge around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday. According to police, her car struck a tractor-trailer and the cab of the tractor-trailer burst into flames. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland identified her as 50-year-old Donna-Lee Zahn of Parsonfield. The cab of […]