AUBURN — A Bridgton man is being held without bail after a high-speed chase late Monday night in a U-Haul pickup truck stolen in Auburn, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office wrote in a news release. George R. Sproul Jr., 25, was arrested in Standish on charges of eluding police, reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, […]
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Greenwood driver injured in West Paris crash
Robert Owens, 56, of Greenwood was extricated from his smoking pickup truck Tuesday afternoon, after it went off Route 26 near Snow Falls in West Paris, struck a tree and came to a stop next to the Little Androscoggin River, according to Oxford County Chief Deputy Christopher Wainwright. Owens, conscious and trapped in the truck, […]
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Pickup truck, tractor-trailer truck collide in Farmington
FARMINGTON — A pickup truck and a tractor-trailer flatbed collided Wednesday morning on Route 27, just south of the Barker Road intersection, officer Ryan Rosie said. There were no injuries, he said. When the southbound pickup truck went around a corner, the northbound tractor-trailer truck was moving over to go around a Maine Department of […]
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Jeep hits parked truck in Jay hit-and-run
JAY — Police are looking for anyone with information about a hit-and-run crash in which a Jeep Wrangler hit a truck parked in a driveway and destroyed it on Main Street near the road construction on Route 4 early Thursday morning. Most of the black hard top of the Jeep broke off and was left […]
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Pickup truck burns in Bangor Wendy’s parking lot
BANGOR — A pickup truck was destroyed by fire in a fast-food restaurant parking lot Friday, officials said. The driver, who Bangor Assistant Fire Chief Rick Cheverie did not identify, was heading through the drive-thru window at Wendy’s on Union Street when she saw smoke coming out from under her dashboard. The driver wisely pulled […]
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Orono man dies after rear-ending school bus in Augusta
AUGUSTA (AP) — Police say the driver of a pickup truck that rear-ended a school bus in Augusta has died, but no one on the bus was hurt. Police Lt. Christopher Massey says the truck driven by 60-year-old Herbert LeBreton, of Orono, struck the rear of the bus at about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday and got […]