Centerville

A small earthquake shook parts of Downeast Maine early Wednesday morning, the U.S. Geological Survey said. The 3.0 magnitude quake occurred about 2 miles from Centerville just before 3 a.m., according to the agency, which said about two dozen people reported feeling the shaking. Small earthquakes do take place in New England on occasion, and there are about 100,000 earthquakes…

Texas’ prison system has temporarily stopped transporting inmates as it investigates how a convicted murderer escaped from a bus last month and later killed a man and his four grandsons.

A convicted murderer on the run since escaping a prison bus after stabbing its driver on May 12 was shot dead late Thursday after he killed a family of five and stole their truck from a rural weekend cabin, a Texas prison system spokesman said.

One person is dead in a single-car crash that occurred overnight in Centerville, Massachusetts. Emergency crews responded to the crash on South Main Street shortly before 2a.m. on Saturday. According to the Centerville Fire Department, the car had crashed into multiple utility poles before ending up off the roadway on its side. There was only one person in the...