A man charges officers with knives, forcing them to shoot him, but his father says police should have handled the situation differently.
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Tormented by sexual abuse, man appears to commit ‘suicide by cop’
A longtime advocate for those molested at a Falmouth school for the deaf leaves police no choice but to shoot.
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Psychotic break escalates to armed confrontation
A quiet young man’s loved ones agree that police were forced to shoot him, but they wonder if a lethal outcome could have been avoided by alternative tactics.
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Effort to get ill woman treatment ends tragically
Feeling threatened, a Kennebunk woman calls police about her adult daughter, who is killed when she advances on an officer with a knife.
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Firefighters douse blaze in Windham
The fire was reported at about 1 p.m. in a building behind Corsetti’s Market.
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Windham telephone communications restored
An alert from the Cumberland County Regional Communications Center Friday morning says people in the 892 and 894 exchanges were affected.
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Portland Pirates owner charged with OUI
Police say Brian Petrovek, 57, had a blood alcohol content more than three times the legal limit when he crashed.
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Portland police release sketch of alleged West End assailant
Police say a man ran up to a woman on Vaughn Street near the Western Cemetery on Nov. 17, knocked her to the ground and assaulted her.
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Maryland man is nominated as Portland’s fire chief
If OK’d by the City Council, Jerome LaMoria will face pressure to adapt to changes in service needs.
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Tuesday’s earthquake in York County no cause for alarm, expert says
A few small earthquakes close together in time are not unusual in Maine, the state geologist says.