Newport News

A local man who eluded a massive police manhunt for more than three days was recognized by a waitress as he drank coffee at a truck stop early Friday, and local police arrested him without incident.

Perley Goodrich, Jr. of Newport appeared in Penobscot County Superior Court Friday to hear charges of murder and aggravated assault.

Maine State Police charged Perley Goodrich Jr. with murder and aggravated assault following his arrest early Friday morning, Oct.

NEWPORT, Maine a ' An intense manhunt that's been ongoing since Monday ended early this morning at the Newport Big Stop, where Perley Goodrich Jr.

State Police are asking hunters in the Newport area to look for anything unusual while they are in the woods.

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Authorities advised area residents to be on guard Tuesday as 55 law enforcement officers on the ground and in the air searched for Perley Goodrich Jr.

Not long ago, a soldier taking a closer look at a sign bleached white from the Iraq sun discovered a barely legible name very familiar to those in Washington County: Chris Rutherford.

I'm not exactly sure what piece of the grieving process some people resolve by sitting at a grave site or leaving a single rose at a makeshift roadside shrine.

The landmark business center just off Interstate 95, the Somerset Plaza, is getting a major facelift.

Hundreds of students from Etna to Newport to Hartland will have to wait a little longer to get their flu shots at school.

Saufley: Newport courthouse - just needs some upgrades' State Rep. Joshua Tardy and Maine Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Leigh Saufley greet Superior Court Justice William Anderson as they tour 3rd District Court in Newport on Tuesday.

Official: Gate replacement - critical' A major problem with the dam at the southwest outlet of Sebasticook Lake is the two chains that are connected to an underwater gate keep breaking.

A year ago, Mark and Jennifer Yarbrough thought life was going pretty well. Mark had a well-paying job for a subsidiary of Citibank, for which he traveled all over the country.

Police are investigating a crash in Newport. It happened on the County Woods Road around 7 a.m. The driver of a box truck lost control of the vehicle, went off the road and struck a telephone pole.

Don Chute stood beside the new 100-foot-tall wind turbine and talked excitedly about the future.

State veterinarian Don Hoenig confirmed Tuesday that five additional cases of Eastern equine encephalitis are suspected in Maine - four in horses and one in a llama.

A man walked into the Dunkin' Donuts Wednesday night with his face covered and a knife in his hand and demanded cash, police say.

Bouchard & Son Towing and A&M Sand and Gravel crews work on pulling a tractor-trailer up the embankment and back onto the pavement Tuesday afternoon after the truck went off Interstate 95 northbound in Newport around 4:20 Tuesday morning.

I dona t remember the first time I met Game Warden Doug Tibbetts. I do know that I was a knee-high sprout and that he was a tall, handsome guy in uniform who would tease me unmercifully and that my mother seemed to like him OK.