Maine man allegedly hit another driver with a handgun and firing shot in act of road rage

High Peaks Alliance volunteers improve Tumbledown Trail

WELD — On June 12 High Peaks Alliance staff Matt Kusper and Emily Kidd, and five volunteers gathered at Tumbledown Public Lands to tackle trail improvements on the Little Jackson Connector Trail. The group spent the morning improving drainage to reduce erosion before beginning construction of a rock staircase designed to improve trail durability and […]

No charges for Arizona parents in case of toddler who was alive after being declared dead

No charges will be filed against the parents of an Arizona toddler who was declared dead after being found in a family pool but was breathing hours later at a hospital morgue. Gilbert police had recommended negligence charges. But Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell said a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt was unlikely. “The family […]

Greater Southern Maine captures state Senior Legion baseball title

It is the first state American Legion baseball championship for a Sanford-based team since 1951.

After Lindsay Clancy killed her 3 children, first responders tell a jury what they found

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) — First responders offered jurors a firsthand account Thursday of what they found after Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to end her life, during what her lawyers argue was an episode of postpregnancy psychosis. The testimony came a day after jurors listened to the anguished 911 call made by […]

Can scientists track sharks in real time? A UMaine researcher explains

ORONO — Discovery’s Shark Week began Sunday. And right on cue, a nearly 14-foot great white shark is making headlines. Contender, the largest male white shark tagged in the western North Atlantic, was recently detected near North Carolina’s Outer Banks. OCEARCH tagged him off Florida and Georgia in January 2025. Contender is not one of […]