Penobscot County Sheriff's Department

She's been living a mother's worst nightmare this past week, and yet Kristine Wiley's been on site today thanking the volunteers who have stopped to bring her words of encouragement before setting out to search for clues in the disappearance of her daughter...

A mother desperate to find her daughter has turned to police and social media to get help. Kristine Wiley says her 15 year old daughter has not been heard from since Sunday night.

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...

It's been a work in progress for three years now.  A collaboration of effort between education officials and law enforcement agencies in three Maine counties in an effort to improve law enforcements response in the event of a school emergency...

***Update: This from Senator Cushing: My family and the Crommett family are grateful to all those who have offered their comforting thoughts prayers and assistance. Unfortunately, it appears that the search is over and the results are not what we hoped for...

Pounds of alpha-PVP, a synthetic hallucinogen known on the street as "bath salts," are out of the illegal drug market in Maine thanks to good police investigation that reaches into East Asia.