The 11-member deadly force review panel examined eight police shootings in 2024 and is recommending agencies work on preventing harm.

Mills authored the state's novel "yellow flag" law with a prominent gun rights group. She says a red flag proposal that would allow family members to petition a judge to remove a loved one's guns undermines that law.

The cases are related to an apartment at 100 College Street, police said. After serving a search warrant, police detained eight teenagers.

Trevor Averill is charged with depraved indifference murder and manslaughter in the death of his two-month-old daughter, Harper Averill.

A Maine man was killed in an explosion Friday while using a propane torch to thaw a frozen water tank on a commercial truck, according to Maine State Police. Kerry Holmes, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene of the explosion in Molunkus, a township in Aroostook County in northern Maine, State Police said in a statement.

STETSON, Maine (WABI) - Maine State Police is seeking the public’s help to find a burglary suspect. State Police would like to question a man in regards to a burglary on January 8th in Stetson. The incident happened around 2:00 p.m. on Hughey Road. No other details are being released.

A father-son pair of commercial fishermen went missing Saturday night off the coast of northern Maine, authorities said.

BANGOR, Maine — The Bangor Fire Department issued a traffic alert Thursday morning due to a crash that appears to involve a box truck. As of 6:45 a.m. Thursday, officials were working to remove the vehicles at the intersection of State Street and Broadway, according to a Bangor Fire Department social media post.

MAINE, USA — Slick road conditions Wednesday morning led to multiple crashes across the state. One crash on Sabattus Street in Lewiston brought down utility lines, making for a messy situation. The road was closed in the area for multiple hours but has since reopened.

A deadly force review panel released its report Wednesday on a 2023 case in which a Maine State Police detective shot a man in Chelsea, who then fatally shot himself in the head. Frank Foss Jr., 28, of Dresden was shot July 23,

PORTLAND (WGME) – Maine will not get as many crisis receiving centers as Governor Janet Mills set out to create. A crisis receiving center like "The Living Room" in Portland, run by Spurwink, is a building staffed with a team of health workers and volunteers.

Frank Foss Jr., 28, fatally shot himself in the head July 23, 2023, after being shot in the stomach by a state police detective, the panel said.