Hancock Fatal (Hancock) – A horrific series of vehicle crashes in Hancock yesterday left a 54-year-old Ellsworth man dead. State Public Safety Department spokeswoman Shannon Moss reports to Star 97.7 that Kevin Minnie was driving west on Route 1 at a high rate of speed when he hit another vehicle. His car kept going […]
Appleton Fatal (Appleton) – A 28-year old Minnesota motorcyclist is dead after crashing his bike in the Knox County Town of Appleton earlier this week. Deputies say James Limmer of Dundee Minnesota drifted off the Searsmont Road and slammed into a stand of trees. First responders found his body at the scene of the […]
Glenburn Shooting (Glenburn) – A man considered armed and dangerous is on the loose this morning after a shooting in Glenburn yesterday afternoon. The Penobscot County Sheriff’s Department is looking for 43-year old Brendon Harvey of Glenburn. The shooting left one person critically injured and another with minor injuries. Deputies shut down McCarty Road […]
Lawmaker Injured (Sedgwick) – A State Representative from Deer Isle is recovering from a broken vertebra after a car crash in Sedgwick last week. Democrat Holly Eaton underwent surgery at a Bangor hospital then was airlifted to a Portland hospital after she suffered a pulmonary embolism during physical therapy. Bar Harbor Story reports Eaton […]
Katahdin Fatalities (Baxter State Park) – The father and daughter from New York who died while climbing Mt. Katahdin last weekend faced extreme weather conditions. Searchers found Tim and Esther Keiderling’s bodies this week below the summit of Maine’s tallest mountain. Other hikers in the area say the weather included snow, ice, rain and […]
Crime/Public Safety/Drugs Mt. Katahdin Search Ends in Tragedy (Baxter SP) The search for a second hiker missing on Mt. Katahdin ended in tragedy yesterday when the Maine Warden Service confirmed search teams had found the body of 28 yo Esther Keiderling. Rescuers discovered her body about 1 p.m. in a wooded area between two known […]
