It was an apparent suicide attempt. State Police now say the man who shot himself three times with a flare gun in his pick-up truck in Freeport is 65 year old Daniel Abbott of Portland, now being treated at Maine Medical Center for burns and...
It happened in Freeport along Interstate 295 near the Brunswick town line. An apparent suicide attempt in which a man shot himself three times in the head with a flare gun while he was in his pick-up truck, and subsequently a small fire broke out...
No injuries this evening in a fire that destroyed a vacant building on property owned by Central Maine Power near Route 1 in Brunswick in the vicinity of the Bath Iron Works Harding plant. No word yet on the cause of the fire. The firefighting effort...
A quite unexpected story from Damariscotta, where police say Nanci Atwell, the acclaimed educator from Edgecomb who was last year awarded a one million dollar teaching prize, has been given a summons for shoplifting after she allegedly stole a white blouse from a Remy's store....
In Brunswick, at-large school board member Joy Prescott says the board should hire a full-time social worker at an estimated cost of 90 thousand dollars a year. She explains why here. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Prescott-make-1.mp3"][/audio] Endorsing the proposal is school board member Sarah Singer. [audio mp3="https://www.radiomidcoastwcme.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Singer-for-help.mp3"][/audio] But school board chair Bill...
Some significant traffic backups are holding up drivers in Brunswick and Topsham in the aftermath of a situation in which a man stood on the roof of the overpass at the junction of Route 1 and Route 196 and jumped into the southbound lane of...
In Bath, an accident that seems almost unimaginable, but perhaps the greatest disbelief of all lies in the fact that so far, no one has lost their life and apparently no one will. A sport utility vehicle went over a concrete barricade and through an...
There has been a spectacular accident in Bath, in which a car drove off the Route 1 overpass. An SUV landed on its roof on Leeman Highway, which runs directly under the overpass, and an unknown number of people are injured. Route 1 is now closed...
Central Maine Power crews are making notable progress in electric power restoration efforts in the aftermath of wind gusts as high as 50 miles an hour that have caused tree limbs to come down--sometimes on power lines and traffic lights. Thousands of outages remain, but most...
Update from WCME News 9: Central Maine Power crews are making notable progress in electric power restoration efforts in the aftermath of wind gusts as high as 50 miles an hour that have caused tree limbs to come down--sometimes on power lines and traffic lights. Thousands of...