The Pigeon Express
A man and woman were arrested in Maine following the discovery of cocaine disguised as a cake in their vehicle. Acting on information received, the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency stopped a vehicle on Tuesday along Interstate 295 as it entered Gardiner. A drug-sniffing K9 alerted them to the presence of illegal drugs in the vehicle, […]
A person in Maine called the police after discovering human skeletal remains while cleaning out their father’s old home after his death. 82-year-old Douglas Scott, died of the novel coronavirus earlier this year. On May 8, his grown children were sorting through his property at his home at 196 Poland Spring Drive in Casco, located […]
A massive winter storm pounded the US east coast, grounding flights, shuttering vaccination sites and bringing New York City to a standstill. Parts of Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania received snowfall up to 30 inches. New York City and New Jersey have both declared a state of emergency. The US National Weather […]
Strong winds and heavy wet snow from the western North Atlantic Ocean dumped more than a foot of snow in some areas and knocked out power for about 225,000 in New England. The most severe effects of the storm were felt in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine. Shapleigh, Maine, and Derry, New Hampshire, saw around […]
A man with a metal detector found a long-hidden, 222-year-old coin under a few inches of soil outside a church in Maine. Shane Houston, of Charlotte, North Carolina, was on a metal-detecting trip with a friend from New Hampshire when he found the coin earlier this month. As Houston dug it up from under a few […]
Julie Holowach, 63, was killed by a great white shark in a fatal attack in the US state of Maine. The woman was swimming near Bailey Island on Monday when she was attacked. This is the second shark attack in Maine. The species is not common in the region because of its cooler waters. Ms […]
A 65-year-old American man who rigged his home with traps to keep out intruders has been killed by the device. Ronald Cyr called police in the town of Van Buren in the state of Maine to say he had been shot. Police found a door had been designed to fire a handgun should anyone attempt […]