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Twenty-year-old college student found dead near a bridge in Maine

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TOPSHAM, ME – A tragic incident unfolded on Sunday as a college student was found lifeless in a parking lot near the Frank J. Woods Bridge. The Topsham Police Department confirmed that the victim was a 20-year-old female student from California who was studying at Bowdoin College. Although the police did not disclose the student’s identity, Bowdoin College President Safa Zaki identified her as Qingyang Zhan in an official statement. The police were alerted to …

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Man holding rifle outside police station shot by deputies

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RUMFORD, ME – A late-night encounter outside a police station in Maine ended in the fatal shooting of a man who allegedly confronted law enforcement officers with a firearm. Sean Dyment, a 23-year-old resident of Canton, Maine, was killed by deputies from the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office. The incident unfolded as deputies were engaged in a conversation with a local resident outside the Rumford police station. The resident had reported being followed by a mysterious …

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Dead body of mass shooter found

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LEWISTON, ME – The two-day-long search for the suspect involved in a devastating mass shooting in Lewiston culminated late Friday night when Robert Card was found deceased. The discovery offers a grim closure to the traumatized residents of this small Maine town. Maine State Police located Card’s body by a dumpster near a recycling facility in nearby Lisbon Falls at approximately 7:45 p.m. Initial reports suggest that Card died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The …

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Mass shooter on the loose, 22 people dead and over 50 injured

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LEWISTON, ME – A massive manhunt is currently underway in Lewiston, Maine, following a tragic shooting spree that claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left more than 50 injured. Authorities are actively searching for the suspected shooter, Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army Reserve firearms instructor, who had previously been sectioned for mental health concerns earlier this summer. The horrifying incident occurred at multiple locations, including a bowling alley, a restaurant, and a …

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Man convicted for using dead brother’s identity for more than 60 years

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In a surprising turn of events, Napoleon Gonzalez, an 86-year-old man from Etna, Maine, was found guilty of multiple counts of fraud, including identity theft, passport fraud, Social Security fraud, and mail fraud. The verdict was delivered last Friday after a two-day trial at the U.S. District Court in Bangor, with Judge John A. Woodcock, Jr. presiding. Gonzalez had been impersonating his deceased brother, Guillermo Gonzalez, since the mid-1960s. Guillermo had died in infancy in …

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Police charge man with murdering his girlfriend who was diagnosed with cancer

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Maine State Police have apprehended Jayme Schnackenberg, 39, at his Monticello home on Monday, connecting him to the murder of Kimberly Hardy, 42. The couple resided together on School Street in a small town in northern Maine, with a population of approximately 740 people along the U.S.-Canada border. Hardy’s mother reported her missing on June 18, after not hearing from her since June 16. According to a missing person post by the Houlton Police Department, …

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Parents both shot in front of their kids

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On Monday evening, tragedy unfolded in Westbrook, Maine when two people were tragically killed in a parking lot in front of their children. Shannon Moss, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety, reported that Marcel Lagrange Jr., 24, of South Portland, was arrested and charged with two counts of murder. According to state medical investigators, the victims – Brittney Cockrell, 36, of Westbrook, and Michael Hayter, 41, of Westbrook – were shot to death. …

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Series of connected shootings leave four dead and three injured

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A series of linked shootings occurred in Maine on Tuesday, resulting in the deaths of four individuals and the injury of three others. The tragic incidents took place in two separate locations, with the first occurring in Bowdoin and the second on Interstate 295 in Yarmouth, approximately 25 miles away. Authorities have taken one person into custody in connection with the crimes. The four fatalities were discovered in a home in Bowdoin shortly before the …

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Man Arrested After Firing Gunshots on College Campus

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A 24-year-old man from Waterville has been arrested following reports of gunshots fired at a party on the Colby College campus in Maine. Andrew Gifford of Waterville was treated for head wounds after being assaulted by two non-Colby students at the Alfond Apartments, also known as the “Senior Apartments,” on Saturday morning. In response to the assault, Gifford fired two rounds from a concealed handgun, which struck the wall without causing injury. Gifford has been …

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She left her baby to die in the freezing cold. Thirty-six years later law enforcement found out who she is.

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Maine cold case of ‘Baby Jane Doe’ cracked 36 years later – New York Post Lee Ann Daigle, 58, was arrested and charged with murder in the 1985 death of her newborn baby girl, “Baby Jane Doe.” The case began after Daigle’s baby’s body had been discovered by a dog that dragged the body of “Baby Jane Doe” about 700 feet to the dog owner’s home in the Maine town of Frenchville, state police said. …

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