There has been no word yet on why one vehicle crossed the centerline and struck another head-on.
Matt Byrne
Matt Byrne has covered crime and public safety for the Press Herald since 2016. It is his second beat since being hired at the Press Herald in late 2012, when he left the Boston Globe's suburban news bureau. Matt grew up outside Philadelphia, moved to Boston to attend Emerson College and now loves living in Maine. When he is not nerding out on court documents or listening to a police scanner, Matt loves to work on old cars, make things out of metal and try new craft beers. Offers to drive your race car, or news tips, are always welcome.
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Tractor-trailer backed up at turnpike toll plaza before hitting tollbooth
The collision ‘lifted the tollbooth right off the concrete’ at the York plaza, police say.
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Man stabbed in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood
Police say a 35-year-old man from South Carolina was wounded Thursday morning on Oxford Street.
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Rockland man spoke about shootings in months before causing school lockdown
Brandon Luzzi, who is still having a mental health evaluation after triggering the lockdown last week, had previously made comments about paranoia, firearms and school shootings, dispatch records show.
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Man trying to elude arrest ran onto I-295, tried to get into passing cars, police say
Joshua D. Nelson of Windham was stopped while driving in Portland, then crashed into another car before taking off on a wild run, police report.
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Mother and daughter killed as dual crashes halt traffic along Route 302
The fatalities result from a 2-vehicle head-on in Casco, and a logging truck is involved in a separate crash in Windham.
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Man found dead in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood
Police are investigating the death but said it is not considered suspicious.
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Windham crash results in drunken-driving charge
Joel L. Thompson, 61, of Windham crashed his car on Brand Road shortly before 7 a.m. Monday, police say.
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Mental health evaluation continues for man who spoke of school shooting
Brandon Luzzi, who was held at Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport, told his mother that he believed the voices that told him to ‘do a school shooting’ came from a foreign object or device inside his body.
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Waterboro man found guilty of attempted kidnapping, assault
Christopher T. Hall, 52, is convicted of trying to kidnap a woman and hold her for ransom.