Route 1 was closed for several hours early Tuesday morning while police negotiators tried to persuade a 40-year-old man to let a woman leave a motel room.
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Maine recovery community mourns Freeport woman found dead in South Portland
Friends of Danielle Goodwin say the 52-year-old was passionate about helping others enter recovery. Goodwin’s body was found Tuesday and police are investigating her death as a homicide.
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South Portland teen accused of trying to recruit someone to commit murder at high school
Prosecutors say a 16-year-old ‘did command or attempt to induce another person’ to kill members of the South Portland High School community last fall.
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Authorities identify body found in South Portland as Freeport woman, say she was killed
Danielle Goodwin, 52, was found near Clarks Pond Parkway on Tuesday. Investigators are seeking help locating the vehicle Goodwin was last seen in, a blue 2016 Honda CRV with Maine license plate 2773VM
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South Portland High School reports case of TB
There have been 10 cases of TB so far in 2023, according to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
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State police investigating death of woman in South Portland
Authorities say the woman’s body was found Tuesday afternoon in woods near the Home Depot on Clark’s Pond Parkway.
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Contamination warnings issued for 5 Maine beaches as Labor Day weekend arrives
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found elevated levels of fecal bacteria at beaches in York, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, South Portland and Camden.
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Judge scraps plea agreement for South Portland woman accused of stealing half a million dollars
Theresa York, 59, is accused of stealing from her former boss and friend, Pamela Anzelc. Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills says she would not approve an agreement that doesn’t include jail time.
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South Portland officer shoots and kills man in armed confrontation at apartment complex
Officer Anthony Verville fatally shot Christapher Dodge, 47, after responding to a domestic violence shooting at the Summit Terrace apartments early Friday.
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Body of missing South Portland woman found in Caribou
Sonja Knight, 49, was reporting missing on July 27. Her family members say they don’t know why she would have been in northern Maine. The medical examiner’s office is working to determine a cause of death.