Accidents and Emergencies

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1730+ words) Michael Hunter was panicking. When his wife, Rachel Worster Hunter, woke up the morning of Jan. 8, 2025, the 54-year-old couldn’t speak clearly or focus her eyes. Michael recognized that she was suffering from low potassium, something she had long grappled with....

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (183+ words) Rachel Worster Hunter died at her Macwahoc Plantation home on Jan. 8, 2025, after 10 ambulance services refused to drive to her home. She died from low potassium, a medical condition she had long grappled with, according to her husband, Michael Hunter. Rachel…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (727+ words) For more than a century, the Pilot and the Victory Chimes — two historic schooners with towering sails — have between them served the country in wartime, hosted the likes of Jacques Cousteau and graced the Maine state quarter. But an inlet…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (157+ words) An earthquake hit near Eustis on Sunday morning. The magnitude 1.9 temblor shook the ground at a depth of just over 3 miles about 4 miles east-southeast of the Franklin County town, just 20 minutes from the Canadian border, about 4:03 a.m., according to the U.S. Geological…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (36+ words) Local restaurants are donating food to Manna Ministries after a sewage pipe break made the organization’s kitchen unusable. Local restaurants are donating food to Manna Ministries after a sewage pipe break made the organization's kitchen unusable....

4+ week, 21+ hour ago   (90+ words) OLD TOWN, ME. (NBC, KYMA) - Portions of a bridge under construction collapsed Thursday in Old Town, Maine. The bridge collapsed while a construction crew was pouring concrete for the bridge deck as part of ongoing construction, the Maine Department of…...