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Court appearance postponed for third time for man accused of causing police shootout
PARIS, Maine (WMTW) - Gary Porter, a homeless man, who police say slipped out of his handcuffs, stole two police vehicles and caused a dramatic shootout with police in Paris almost two weeks ago, was expected to make his first court appearance for the third time Friday. It was postponed yet again.
Significant police presence at Maine motorcycle club
TURNER, Maine (WMTW) - State police and the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant at the Saracens Motorcycle Club in Turner Friday morning. Police did not provide any details about what they were looking for, just that it was part of an ongoing investigation. They said there was no threat to the public.
Family members of Maine mass shooter testify before commission investigating shootings
The commission looking into the October shootings in Lewiston, Maine, heard from family members of the shooter Thursday morning. Commission members heard tales of frustration from Robert Card’s family members, who said they tried to get help before that deadly day. The family members told the commission that they...
Bus carrying RSU 16 students involved in crash Thursday
MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — An RSU 16 bus was involved in a crash Thursday morning. RSU 16 supports the towns of Poland, Mechanical Falls, and Minot. The crash happened shortly after 8:15 a.m. near the Cumberland Farms store on Pleasant Street in Mechanic Falls, the Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office told NEWS CENTER Maine.
Man pleads guilty to 2020 murder in Lewiston
The man who shot another man to death in Lewiston in July 2020 pleaded guilty to murder on Friday. Mark Sinclair, who was 28 at the time, killed John Paquin, 20, of Worcester, Massachusetts. Paquin was found with gunshot wounds outside an apartment building on Howe Street. "He was always...
Raw video: Testimony from Robert Card's sister, brother-in-law and ex-wife before Lewiston Commission
VIDEO: Watch as Nicole and James Herling, the sister and brother-in-law of Robert Cart, continue their testimony before the commission looking into the shootings that left 18 people dead in Lewiston, Maine, last October. Robert Card's ex-wife, Cara Lamb, also testifies. >> Watch videos from Thursday's commission hearing: Part 1...
Scarborough cornhole tournament raises funds in memory of Lewiston shooting victims
SCARBOROUGH (WGME) - Hundreds of folks on Saturday helped to continue the legacy of the lives lost in the Lewiston mass shooting. That night of the shooting, some people a part of the Maineiacs Cornhole lost their lives. On Saturday, that same league put on a cornhole tournament raising funds...
Lewiston native uses hometown as inspiration for first novel: ‘The Toll Road North’
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Peggy DeBlois is the author of “The Toll Road North.”. DeBlois grew up in Lewiston in the late 60s and early 70s in a French-Catholic neighborhood. She says she is an avid reader but never saw French-Canadian families of her youth in any book. DeBlois says she needed to capture that time and place in some small way.
Second man charged with manslaughter in Turner crash that killed grandmother acquitted
AUBURN, Maine — A second driver charged with manslaughter in the death of a Fayette grandmother following a deadly crash in Turner in 2022 has been acquitted by a jury in Auburn. After deliberating for an hour and a half Tuesday, a jury in Androscoggin County Superior Court came...
Music as Medicine: Lewiston artist battles psychosis, muscle palsy with ukulele
LEWISTON, Maine (WABI) - May is Lyme Disease Awareness Month. Maine Tracking Network reported almost 3 thousand Mainers were diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2023. Lyme Disease is spread through blacklegged tick bites. Per the CDC, undiagnosed Lyme disease can spread to and affect the joints, heart, and nervous system.
MSAD 17 parents worry about consolidating schools, officials say nothing is decided
SOUTH PARIS (WGME) -- MSAD 17 is made up of eight towns, and each has their own elementary school. In February, Agnes Gray in West Paris closed after architects hired by the district said the building was unsafe. Several other buildings also received low grades, which prompted the district to...
In Ye Olden Times: The Northern Lights
Some skies we’ve had this past week, eh? Certainly, one for the record books — more auroras sporting in the skies over Bridgton, and indeed all of Maine, than I’ve seen in my lifetime. Not since I was a boy have I seen anything even approaching the grand display of Northern Lights that we were treated to last Saturday night, and I hear spectral traces of these lights continued to show up here and there across the state in the nights afterward. Down to Standish, over 100 people gathered at the boat launch to take in the green and purple fires hanging over Sebago, and some of the pictures coming out of Portland and the islands of Casco Bay are truly stunning.
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