One of the biggest murder mysteries that has gone unsolved since the late 1880’s, may have been solved. Jack the Ripper, who brutally killed and mutilated five women in 1888, may have been identified using DNA evidence.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Department says Jessica LaPlante of Stratton has been charged with assault. The 39-year old is accused of burning her 4-year old daughter.
Harmony Pottle of Brunswick, 33, was arrested Thursday (June 5) night in Brunswick. Police say she hit her former boyfriend with her hands, chased and then threatened him with a baseball bat. She's been charged with domestic violence assault and also felony criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon...
Two men are facing charges in connection with a string of burglaries in central Maine. Police say the men were caught after a homeowner found them in his barn.
The Winthrop Police are looking for a man who robbed a convenience store early Tuesday (March 4) morning. Police Chief Joseph Young, Sr. described the robber as wearing pajama bottoms and a white mask.
*Editor's note: The names of two people have been removed from this story because the cases against them were dismissed in 2018.
Original story: The State Police and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency announced today the arrest of 8 people in connection with a huge drug ring in Hancock County. The investigation started in May of 2011 when MDEA’s Down East Division began investigating a group thought t
On Wednesday night, Rachel Poole, who's nine months pregnant, came to her El Paso home and started a FaceTime call with her husband, who's a soldier deployed overseas. It was a normal evening as the couple prepared for their child's birth, until Rachel was attacked and stabbed from behind.
According to the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, after last week's mobile meth lab bust in Ellsworth, the MDEA's Downeast District Task Force and Clandestine Drug Laboratory Enforcement Team (CDLET) found a suspicious device in one of the labs not consistent with Methamphetamine manufacturing that led to assistance from the Maine State Police Bomb Squad.