AUGUSTA — Without dissent, a key committee urged the Legislature on Thursday to turn thumbs down on Gov. Paul LePage’s bid to fold the Maine Turnpike Authority into the Department of Transportation. With little time and not much evidence that the move would help, the Transportation Committee had no trouble recommending leaving the quasi-independent state […]
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Auburn: Vehicle hits light pole on Turnpike entrance ramp
AUBURN — The Maine Turnpike Authority reports a vehicle hit a light pole on the Exit 75 southbound entrance ramp and is delaying traffic. Caution is urged while traveling through the area.
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Waldoboro man killed after hitting plow truck on Maine Turnpike
Updated 10:20 a.m.: WELLS — A Waldoboro man was killed Friday morning after a pickup truck he was driving hit a plow truck on the Maine Turnpike. Troopers say 48-year-old Michael Sands of Waldoboro was killed instantly when the pickup truck hit the rear of a turnpike plow truck in the far-left northbound lane. The […]
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Turnpike crash north of New Gloucester toll plaza
A crash between the New Gloucester toll booth and the Auburn exit is slowing northbound traffic Thursday afternoon on the Maine Turnpike. Emergency personnel have responded to the crash site at Mile Marker 68. The turnpike authority warns motorists to be alert while traveling in the area.
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Vehicle hits light pole at turnpike on-ramp in Auburn
AUBURN— The Maine Turnpike Authority reports that a crash on the southbound entrance ramp is delaying traffic. A vehicle hit a light pole at the Exit 75 entrance ramp. Emergency vehicles are at the scene.
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Lewiston man killed in Monday morning Turnpike crash
GRAY — A Lewiston man was killed in a crash Monday morning on the Maine Turnpike near the Gray exit, according to Maine State Police. Henry P. Roy, 89, died shortly after his arrival at Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston, according to Stephen McCausland, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman. Troopers said Roy struck […]
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Two heroin arrests made on Maine Turnpike in York
YORK — State police made two separate arrests on the turnpike Friday, seizing 480 doses of suspected heroin bound for southern Maine. Jorge Medina, 36, of Sanford was charged with aggravated trafficking in heroin and Leah Thurlow, 59, of Old Orchard Beach was charged with aggravated trafficking in heroin and violating conditions of release, Department of […]
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Turnpike crash traps driver
FALMOUTH — A Massachusetts man was extricated from his pickup truck Wednesday after it skidded off the Maine Turnpike and crashed into woods. The driver, Frank Zaia, 56, of West Newbury, was taken to Maine Medical Center with injuries police described as not life-threatening. His condition was not immediately available later Wednesday night. Police said […]
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Bliss Thru Shopping: Exit 80 dreamin’
So, we have several questions keeping us up at night. Why is everyone so excited about “Making a Murderer?” Why is the neighbor target practicing at all hours? And what the heck is going in at Exit 80? The last, at least, we can dig our retail-happy hooks into. Since news broke last month that […]
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Vehicle rolls over while going north on Turnpike
NEW GLOUCESTER — An SUV rolled three times on the Maine Turnpike on Wednesday, leaving a Massachusetts couple with a variety of injuries. Maine State Police said Krissan Landry, 30, of Ayer, Mass., was driving north at about 1:30 p.m. when she steered too hard to the right after passing a tractor-trailer near the Auburn […]