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Sanford Police said witnesses told them the man was standing in the intersection of Main Street (Route 109) and Lebanon Street (Route 202) around 3:50 p.m., holding a knife and yelling at passing vehicles.

The single occupant of a wrong-way Honda on the Maine Turnpike hit a Rav4 head-on and caught fire, leaving three people dead Wednesday night.

The vigil will take place at the soccer field at the corner of S. Fruit & Clinton Streets in Concord.

Rochester Police did not disclose many details of the crash Wednesday night on Salmon Falls Road, except to say it involved one vehicle.

The two messages were sent Wednesday and Thursday on Channel 16, a channel for international hailing and distress messages only. Both sound like they were made by a young boy.

Dale Mooney, 53, was taken to a hospital in need of "medical attention".

Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were kidnapped on July 29 from the El Roi Haiti campus in Port au Prince.

Three Seacoast region beaches are under advisory against swimming after testing at a higher than normal level for fecal bacteria.

The truck believed to have two suspects in a theft fled North Berwick Police headquarters and failed to stop for a second traffic stop.

New Hampshire State Police said an Aprilia motorcycle headed west veered off the westbound lanes west of Exit 9 (Route 27) and slammed into a tree Sunday morning.

York County Sheriff William King said the motorcyclist was driving a 1982 Suzuki on River Road around 2:45 p.m. when he hit a 2000 Jeep Wrangle

As part of the bankruptcy filing, Handil received a $45 million loan in order to maintain normal business operations during the process, but failed to make a payment.

Property owners have received a letter from "senior planner" George Clooney, seeking payment of a fee.

A 59-year-old man was driving a 2005 Mercury Mountaineer west on Route 236 near Stevenson Road and drifted into the eastbound path of a Chevy pickup truck.

A Florida man was initially recorded at 120 MPH Sunday afternoon and kept accelerating.

Fueled by gusty winds, the fire at the Days Inn of Kittery was reported around 12:30 p.m. and quickly spread, sending plumes of thick black smoke into the air that could be seen for miles around.