Two customers returned bags of dough containing razor blades or razor blade fragments to the Sanford store Aug. 14, but Hannaford managers didn't inform customers or police until last week, after 2 other cases emerged.

Hannaford issued a product recall for all Portland Pie dough and cheese products sold at its 184 stores in New York, Massachussetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine.

Police say a 22-year-old Shapleigh man fled a traffic stop Monday resulting in a chase, and that the man is armed and does not want to go back to jail.

Convicted sex offender Shawn Batchelder, and Steven Petersen, 29, were found in a residential garage on Bemis Road in Letter D Township.

Detectives on Thursday were looking for a person who may be responsible for inserting 2 razor blades into fresh pizza dough at the Saco Hannaford.

Two schools in Litchfield were briefly put into lockout mode Thursday in an "abundance of caution," as police continue their search for three people allegedly connected to a gunfire incident in Skowhegan.

The crash on state Route 27 in Pittston on Wednesday resulted in police charging Cory Williams, 39, with operating under the influence of alcohol.

Authorities said the suspect fatally shot a 19-year-old woman twice in the chest outside her home on Scribner Boulevard in Lewiston on Aug. 21.

Investigators believe that a man accused of killing his sister and her husband was locked in a siblings' battle over the estate of their stepfather.

Wanted are Christopher Terenc Farrow, 32, and Dayshawn Middleton, 29, of Connecticut, after they allegedly led police on a car chase across central Maine Tuesday night.

Jaime Morin was given 4½ months, time she served while awaiting trial.

Maine State Police say Glenn Brown shot and killed Richard and Tina Bowden in their home in Waldo.

A third officer is accused of videotaping one of the alleged killings on a cellphone and posting it on Snapchat to a group of other officers.

Carine Reeves, the first person to stand trial for murder in Maine since courts were closed because of the pandemic, is found guilty in the 2017 killing of Sally Shaw.

The victim has been identified as Joshua Martin, 30, formerly of Rochester, New York, who was last known to be staying in the Augusta area, according to officials.

Kachina Swasey, 24, is charged with felony attempted murder, elevated aggravated assault and assault on an officer.

They have not disclosed the identity of the person who died or the cause of death.

A bullet struck a house and entered the bedroom of the homeowner's granddaughter.

Derek Boyce of Woolwich is serving eight years of a 13-year sentence.

Mark Paster, 45, was taken into custody Thursday afternoon without incident, police say

Charles Manning, 77, formerly of Augusta and now of Waterville, was charged by Augusta police in June 2017 with assault and obstructing government administration after he allegedly slammed a cupful of the hard-to-get-rid-of bloodsuckers onto a counter at the General Assistance office.

Tensions remain high in Norway and Paris following the arrests of teens involved in assaults, while parents protest 'lack of consequences.'

The Attorney General's Office and an outside police agency are looking into a complaint filed by a black Portland attorney.

Thayne Ormsby, who was 20 at the time of the killings, has tried several times to have his conviction overturned or have his case reviewed.

A video of the attack was posted on Facebook and helped police identify the suspects.

Portland police are looking for suspects in 2 separate shooting incidents on Sunday.

Ryan Reardon is charged with choking a woman with whom he’d had an affair.

Carine Reeves, the first person to go on trial for murder in Maine since the start of the pandemic, shot Sally Shaw because she’d insulted the mother of his children, Assistant Attorney General Megan Elam tells jurors.

Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Ryan Reardon is accused of trying to strangle a woman with whom he was having an affair.

Kirt Damon Sr. of Stockton Springs is charged with murder in the beating death of a woman in 1984.

Cumberland police say a 16-year-old from Tennessee was responsible for communicating a threat that prompted a shutdown of in-person classes at Greely High School last week.

After several hours, police concluded the threat wasn't credible.

Curtis Moody, 51, was arrested on three counts of aggravated assault, and charges of driving to endanger, violating condition of release and reckless conduct.

Shawn Batchelder, 36, was convicted of gross sexual assault in May 2012.

Jason Alec Pratt, 43, is accused of scamming an elderly Sabattus woman by accepting a down payment for home repairs he never performed.

The young child of a key witness developed a virus symptom, and the OUI case – the state's first jury trial since March – has been delayed until spring.

Kandee Collind pleaded guilty to murdering her husband and a judge did not allow her to withdraw the plea.

John Williams has appealed his conviction and his life sentence for the murder of Cpl. Eugene Cole in 2018.

Douglas Theriault, 39, of Biddeford was sentenced to serve nine months and one day of a five-year sentence.

George D. Kibitz, who police say displayed a gun and told the couple that he might shoot people not wearing face coverings, is charged with criminal threatening.

The Maine Warden Service and Androscoggin County Sheriff's Office are investigating the vandalism that measures more than 800 feet.

A judge rejects the argument by Carine Reeves, who is Black, that a face mask could prejudice jurors against him.

A U.S. district judge found a warrant-less blood draw inadmissible in the case, which involves a conflict between state and federal jurisdiction.

The Cumberland County Sheriff's Office says it is looking for Thomas Staley in connection with the attack.

Carine Reeves of New York is charged with murder in the 2017 killing of Sally Shaw, who was shot in the head on the side of a road in Cherryfield.

Video conferencing between the Kennebec County jail and Capital Judicial Center, due to COVID-19 prevention efforts, has had glitches that impact defendants' communications.

Jessica May was driving the car that flipped on the Cousins River bridge near the Yarmouth-Freeport town line.

A man who was protesting police brutality Monday showed a handgun in a threatening manner to a motorcyclist stopped at an intersection, police say, and was charged with criminal threatening.

Brunswick police arrested 24-year-old Christian LeBlond of Lewiston Sunday morning and charged him with aggravated reckless conduct with a firearm.

John Williams, who killed Cpl. Eugene Cole, and Kandee Weyland Collind, who pleaded guilty to stabbing her ex-husband to death, will have their appeals heard by Maine's supreme court Sept. 15.