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Man hurt after explosions, fire at Maine manufacturing facility

LIBERTY (AP) — Fire officials say a man was hurt after a manufacturing facility in Liberty caught fire, leading to several explosions because of hazardous materials that were inside. WLBZ-TV reported (http://on.wlbz2.com/2iYZEeK ) fire crews from nearly a dozen towns responded to Magnum Manufacturing Inc. on state Route 3 on Sunday night. Officials say a […]

Posted inLewiston-Auburn

America’s Funniest Videos shows Lewiston teens busting a watermelon

LEWISTON — Local teens performed the Elastic Watermelon Challenge last summer and a video of their attempt was aired Sunday night on “America’s Funniest Videos.”  Logan Morin and Luke DeCoster, 13-year-old students at Lewiston Middle School, got together with a few neighborhood friends to wrap over 1,000 rubber bands around the middle of a watermelon […]

Posted inOxford Hills

Hazardous chemicals removed from Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School

PARIS — Two hazardous chemicals found during a routine inspection of a physics lab at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School have been removed, Superintendent Rick Colpitts told directors this week. He said the chemicals were bromine and iodine, which were removed because they had expired dates. They were  disposed of at a U.S. Environmental Protection […]

Posted inRiver Valley

Mexico police investigating mailbox explosion at local church

MEXICO — Police continue to investigate the cause of a small explosion at the First Baptist Church that left their mailbox destroyed and their sign damaged, police Chief Roy Hodsdon said Monday morning. Hodsdon said that his officers responded at 11:05 a.m. July 5 to a report from First Baptist Church on Roxbury Road that […]

Posted inNew England, sj-web

New Hampshire police officer dies in shooting before fire

Suspected gunman Michael Nolan, 47, was presumed dead Monday after a late afternoon fire demolished the duplex in a tree-lined neighborhood restricted to people 55 and older. State Attorney General Joseph Foster said Monday night that Brentwood Police Officer Stephen Arkell, 48, answered the domestic dispute call at about 4 p.m. and was fatally shot […]

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Officials probe explosion at N.H. plant that injured 15

Monday afternoon’s blast at the New Hampshire Ball Bearings Inc. plant in Peterborough is being investigated but all indications were that it was an industrial-related incident, said Peterborough Fire Department spokesman Eric Bowman. There didn’t appear to be any environmental damage. Plant machine operator Paul Clark said he was outside in the parking lot when […]