The new restrictions had come after an endangered piping plover chick was killed by a dog last summer.

Police say the suspect, Jeremy Whynot of Limington, hit the woman with the vehicle and then fled. The victim was treated and released from the hospital.

Weather forecasters are predicting up to 3 inches of rain along the coast, and up to 3½ inches in the mountains.

The Supreme Court’s ruling on a Mass. case could affect a similar law just enacted in Portland.


There were no collisions or injuries as a two-seat aircraft landed on the highway Thursday evening and taxied for a half-mile. ‘It was amazing,’ a state trooper says.