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Police in Mass. seek missing Hanson woman whose car was last seen in Maine
Police are looking for a Massachusetts woman who has been missing since last week. Fae Barbone, 40, of Hanson, was last seen Thursday in the area of Williamstown, authorities said. Her car, a black Ford Fiesta with Massachusetts plates reading “259TB2,” was seen the same day parked on a street in Augusta, Maine, according to Massachusetts State Police. She has…
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Family of 8-year-old Mass. boy killed in Maine crash expected to survive
The younger brother and father of an 8-year-old Massachusetts boy killed in a crash in Maine over the weekend are expected to survive, police say. “There have been a number of requests for an update relating to this past weekend’s tragic fatal motor vehicle crash which claimed the life of an 8-year old boy. As of last report I...
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Mass. boy, 8, killed in Maine crash; younger brother, dad critically injured
Rumford Police say they responded to a 911 call about a crash in the vicinity of 1125 U.S. Route 2 at around 3:13 p.m.
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Maine's Cole Brauer becomes first American woman to race sailboat alone and nonstop around world
Alone, Cole Brauer braved three oceans and the elements as she navigated her sailboat for months. When she and her 40-foot sailboat arrived Thursday in A Coruna, Spain, the 29-year-old Boothbay, Maine, resident and New York native became the first American woman to race nonstop around the world by herself, traveling across about 30,000 miles. Brauer, all 5-foot-2 and 100…
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Maine mass shooter had a brain injury, but experts say that doesn't explain his violence
Brain injury experts are cautioning against drawing conclusions from newly released and limited information about evidence of a brain injury in an Army reservist who killed 18 people last year in Maine’s deadliest mass shooting. Boston University researchers who analyzed a sample of Robert Card’s brain tissue said Wednesday they found evidence of traumatic brain injury. The analysis, requested...
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Army officials testify before Maine mass shooting commission
New information is coming out about the months leading up to the Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting. An independent commission created to review the facts surrounding the events heard testimony Thursday from Army personnel who served alongside the gunman.
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Army officials testify before Maine mass shooting commission
An Army reservist who served with a man who fatally shot 18 people in Maine last year and participated in the search for him after the killings on Thursday described the response to the tragedy as chaotic. Matthew Noyes told a special commission that is holding hearings into the Oct. 25 massacre that the search for the shooter was hampered…
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Lewiston shooter's brain showed signs of brain trauma
Researchers at Boston University say there is evidence that Lewiston, Maine, mass shooter had traumatic brain injuries.
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Analysis of Maine mass shooter's brain showed traumatic injury, possibly from Army blasts
The brain of a gunman who killed 18 people and injured 13 others in Lewiston, Maine, showed signs of significant traumatic injury at the time of the mass shooting, researchers tasked with examining the tissue said.
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Survivors say opportunities were missed that could have prevented Maine mass shooting
An emotional mother described freezing when she heard gunfire and then becoming separated from her daughter — not knowing whether she was dead or alive — during the deadliest shooting in Maine history. Tammy Asselin also had a message for lawmakers dealing with legislation in the aftermath of the Oct. 25 shootings, telling them to “put down your partisan lines…
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Outlets at Kittery to be torn down, replaced by apartments and a hotel
The town of Kittery, Maine, has given final approval to a plan that would demolish a shopping outlet and replace it with apartments and a hotel. That plan includes building a 107-unit apartment complex that would include 11 affordable housing units. It will also include a 119-room hotel and a commercial building meant for a restaurant. The Outlets at Kittery…
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ATF director fears Americans are becoming numb to violence with each mass shooting
The head of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says he fears that a drumbeat of mass shootings and other gun violence across the United States could make Americans numb to the bloodshed, fostering apathy to finding solutions rather than galvanizing communities to act. Director Steve Dettelbach’s comments to The Associated Press came after he met...
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Maine to become 27th state to ban paramilitary training under bill passed by House
Maine would become the 27th state to ban paramilitary training, under a bill the House narrowly passed Wednesday. The proposal, designed to block groups hoping to create civil unrest, passed 66-60. It was sponsored by Democratic Rep. Laurie Osher of Orono. The measure comes in the wake of a rise in public demonstrations by white nationalist groups in the state….
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In wake of mass shooting, here is how Maine's governor wants to tackle gun control and mental health
Maine’s governor rolled out legislation on Wednesday she said will prevent dangerous people from possessing weapons and strengthen mental health services to help prevent future tragedies like the Lewiston mass shooting that shook the state. Gov. Janet Mills, a Democrat, called for the changes in January in a speech that came three months after an Army reservist killed 18 people…
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George H.W. Bush's speedboat fetches $435,000 at benefit auction
Former President George H.W. Bush’s speedboat has a new owner. The 38-foot “Fidelity V” was auctioned for $435,000 during the George and Barbara Bush Foundation’s 2024 Presidential Salute benefiting the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, and The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, a spokesperson said. The event last week in Houston...
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Police investigate after child dies at hospital in Bangor, Maine
A child’s death at a hospital has prompted a police investigation, according to NBC affiliate News Center Maine. The outlet reported that the child arrived with life-threatening injuries Sunday morning at a hospital in Bangor. Police said the hospital took measures to save the child, who died from their injuries Sunday night. Authorities added there was no threat to...
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1 person dead following shooting incident in Waterville, Maine
One person is dead following a shooting incident in Waterville, Maine, on Monday morning. State police said Waterville police responded to a report of a shooting outside a residence at 18 South Grove St. around 8:10 a.m. on Monday. One person was killed. A second person was shot at but was not injured. The person who was killed was identified…
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New England airports to make tens of millions of dollars in improvements
Three of the biggest airports in New England are slated to make improvements to control towers, gates and mechanical systems under a nearly $1 billion federal plan to strengthen the nation’s air travel infrastructure. The largest of the New England grants is going to Logan International Airport in Boston. The airport will receive $12 million toward a two-phase project to…
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In video, Maine gunman said reservists were scared because he was ‘capable' of doing something
An Army reservist responsible for Maine’s deadliest mass shooting told state police in New York before his hospitalization last summer that fellow soldiers were worried about him because he was ”gonna friggin’ do something.” Reservist Robert Card told troopers who escorted him to a hospital in upstate New York that fellow reservists and others kept talking about him behind...
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Maine mass-shooting was ‘unique' because of multiple locations, manhunt, police chief tells panel
In the unfortunate history of U.S. mass shootings, the Lewiston massacre in which 18 people were killed was “extremely unique and extremely challenging” because it involved two separate locations followed by an intense search, Maine state’s police chief told a panel investigating the shooting Thursday. Col. Bill Ross described some of the difficulties police faced during and after the...