A 14-year-old Maine boy was arrested this week after police said he had drawn up a hit list and was plotting to harm classmates. Many parents opted to keep their children home from school on Friday — when a holiday assmbly was planned on the last day of school before winter break — after the …
A repeat child sex abuser and register sex offender now faces a witness tampering charge after he allegedly smuggled a letter out of jail in October urging his latest victim to stop cooperating with law enforcement. Matthew “Nate” Boegel, 27, was arrested in October on charges of felony sexual abuse of minors and violating conditions …
A Maine man who shot and killed his parents, their family dog, and another couple was found dead Tuesday in his prison cell in Massachusetts where he was serving a life sentence for the murders. After killing Cynthia and David Eaton, 62 and 66, and their friends, 62-year-old Patti and 72-year-old Bob Eger, on April …
A 19-year-old Maine man has been thrown behind bars after he allegedly attacked his 59-year-old grandmother with a hatchet, leaving her with serious injuries. Ethan Herbert fled the scene on Sunday before deputies arrived, the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office said, but was caught a short time later and charged with domestic violence aggravated assault, domestic …
A Maine man has been arrested and charged with killing his wife while the couple was visiting his parents in Readfield. Maine State Police said they and Winthrop Police responded to a home just after 10 a.m. on Wednesday and found Margaux Whittermore, 32, dead outside the home. Dorothy Whittemore, her 67-year-old mother-in-law, was found …
A 39-year-old Maine woman has been charged with murder after a 14-year-old boy was found dead in Kennebec County. Maine State Police said that a woman made an in-person report about an incident at her home in Sidney just before 5:30 a.m. Friday at the Androscoggin County Sheriff’s Office, according to WMTW. Deputies there contacted …
Jury selection begins Tuesday in the trial of a Maine man charged in the Christmas Day death of his girlfriend’s toddler daughter two years ago. Tyler Witham-Jordan is charged with indifference murder in the death of the 3-year-old, Makinzlee Handrahan, as CrimeOnline reported. He pleaded not guilty and has tried to shift the blame to …
A Main man has been accused of intentionally ramming a 17-year-old riding an SUV in Waterboro on Saturday. York County Sheriff William King said 50-year-old Jason Campbell was angry that the teen was “ripping up the road” where he was supposedly working on the grade, the Bangor Daily News reported. The 17-year-old and his two …
New Hampshire officials provided an update on the murders a man committed Thursday before he was killed by law enforcement on an interstate highway bridge between that state and Maine. Officials identified the murder victims as Brittany Weston, 37, and her 8-year-old son, Benson, WMUR reported. Trent Weston, 37, was identified as the man who …
Maine officials released more information about a deadly incident early Thursday morning that began in New Hampshire, and ended on an Interstate 95 bridge linking the two states. Officials have not yet released the names of the suspect or the victims but said the incident began just after 2 a.m. when a 911 call came …
Police shot and killed a man, suspected of killing his wife and an 8-year-old child, on the Interstate 95 bridge between Maine and New Hampshire early Thursday morning. The names of the suspect and victims have not been released, but officials said the man apparently killed his wife at a home in Troy, New Hampshire, …
Police in Maine say they have arrested four juvenile — one of them 12 years old — and an adult in connection with an incident earlier this month in which a 13-year-old boy was assaulted, held prisoner in a camper, and had property stolen from him. The victim and other witnesses told the Wilton Police …
