The mother who stepped in front of a tractor-trailer on Interstate 95 while holding her 2-year-old son had left suicide notes at her home, Maine State Police said. Police are investigating the death of 26-year-old Heidi McGovern, of Lee, as a suicide. McGovern was holding her son, Enoch, when she stepped in front of an Irving […]
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MTA approves $140M plan to widen 5 miles of highway in Portland area
The Maine Turnpike Authority will move quickly to widen part of the four-lane highway in the Portland area. The authority’s board of directors on Thursday approved a scaled-back plan to add a travel lane in each direction to about 5 miles of the turnpike, which is Interstate 95, from Scarborough to about a mile beyond […]
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Maine bus with children crashes off I-95 in New Hampshire
Children aboard a bus heading from Kittery on a summer field trip were injured when the driver suffered a medical emergency and the bus crashed off Interstate 95 southbound in New Hampshire Friday morning. One of the 11 children onboard the bus was transferred to a hospital in Boston with serious injuries, said Lt. John […]
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At I-95 checkpoint, Border Patrol agents question drivers, passengers about citizenship
U.S. Border Patrol agents conducted an 11-hour vehicle checkpoint on Interstate 95 in eastern Maine on Wednesday, stopping southbound vehicles near Lincoln in Penobscot County to ask drivers and passengers for their citizenship and immigration status, and to search vehicles with sniffer dogs. Agents from the Houlton Border Patrol sector manned the checkpoint, arresting a […]
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Two kids strapped in car seats survive crash that killed mom
OLD TOWN (AP) — Two young children strapped in their car seats have survived a Maine highway crash and a night in the wrecked car where their mother died. State police spokesman Steve McCausland says 26-year-old Liza Parker, of Bangor, died after her station wagon rolled several times before coming to rest in a wooded […]
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Baby hospitalized after rock is dropped on family car in Sidney
SIDNEY, Maine (AP) — An 8-week-old baby has been injured by shards of glass after a rock was dropped from an overpass onto the vehicle she was riding in. Maine State Police say they are searching for the person who dropped the rock over Interstate 95, near Sidney. The Morning Sentinel reports a family was […]
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Minot man arrested following 100 mph-plus chase on I-95
SHERMAN (AP) — A Maine state trooper has arrested a driver and passenger following a pursuit on Interstate 95 at speeds well over 100 miles an hour. Police say the trooper was in Sherman monitoring northbound traffic Thursday night when he clocked a vehicle traveling at 115 miles an hour. He pursued the vehicle, which […]
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Police: Driver gets to nearly 140 mph on I-95 in Maine
SIDNEY, Maine (AP) — Police say a driver who said he normally doesn’t speed accelerated to nearly 140 miles an hour on Interstate 95 in Maine after another vehicle came up “right on his tail.” Sang Yook, of New Jersey, told state police he had been doing 75 miles an hour on June 6 in […]
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Two drivers critically hurt in wrong-way crash on I-95 in Pittsfield
PITTSFIELD (AP) — Maine State Police say two drivers are in critical condition following a wrong-way crash on Interstate 95 in Pittsfield. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland says a truck driver was heading southbound in the northbound lanes of I-95 just before 7 p.m. Sunday. Police tried to divert the driver, identified […]
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Plane lands on highway in Houlton
A single-engine airplane made an emergency landing Saturday on I-95 in Houlton, police reported. Craig Maynard, 56, the owner of the 1961 Cessna 172 had radioed a “Mayday” call from his aircraft at about 12:30 p.m. saying he had lost power and was forced to land in the northbound side of the interstate highway. The […]