4 weeks ago UPDATED: SUSPECT IN CUSTODY!
UPDATED: Schools in Dexter are on lockdown as police focus their attention on the Silvers Mills Road area of Dexter.
Law enforcement agencies are coordinating a tactial team response in Dexter this morning
4 weeks ago Bangor Police want to thank the public for their help in locating a man who's been accused of hurting a child. He's been captured and is currently in custody.
4 weeks ago Bangor's City Manager Catherine M. Conlow announced today the appointment of Mark J. Hathaway of Bangor, ME., as Chief of the Bangor Police Department, subject to the confirmation of the Bangor City Council at its regular meeting on May 13th. Chief Hathaway was selected from a field of thirty eight applicants, four of whom recently interviewed for the position.
4 weeks ago In 1990, a Washington County Sheriff’s Deputy went into an ambush described as a death trap. Deputy Bunker was with an unarmed forest ranger on the call.
At the time Maine Forest Rangers were not permitted to use firearms as part of their enforcement responsibilities.They came out of the ambush with six bullet holes in Bunker's cruiser and a bullet in the Ranger’s hip.
Single day tickets will go on sale this week for the Taste of Country Music Festival, a three-day camping and country music party happening in the Catskills Mountains of New York. Lady Antebellum, Willie Nelson, Trace Adkins, Hunter Hayes and more are scheduled to play the inaugural event.
The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been captured. Dzokhar Tsarnaev was taken into police custody Friday night -- five days after the bombing that left three dead and left more than 100 injured, police said. The 19-year-old was apprehended after a manhunt that began Thursday night with the fatal shooting of an MIT officer and extended into the evening hours on Friday.
5 weeks ago As we all sit glued to our televisions and radios, waiting for news on the manhunt in Boston, a new term is being discussed. People are being asked to "shelter in place," or stay in their homes until police sound the "all clear." Obviously, our world is changing as terrorism has come to our home soil, and we need to make sure we're prepared for what comes next.
There are many country music artists who are reeling from the recent tragic explosion in West, Texas at the West Fertilizer Co. It hits especially close to home for the iconic Willie Nelson, as the accident happened in a town six miles south of his hometown of Abbott, Texas. The legend taking action and turning his 80th birthday celebration into a benefit concert for the West Volunteer Fire Department.
April 18, 2013 It's hard to believe.
Even after we unite as a nation once again to mourn the loss of innocent lives as a result of the Boston terror attacks, we still have a hard time comprehending some of the threats we face as a nation.
