These are some of the stories central Maine is talking about today.

(KJ) -- State and Augusta police say they have located two people they were seeking in connection with a murder committed Monday night. According to the KJ Zina Fritze and Sean McQuade were located Wednesday afternoon. They were staying in another apartment in the same neighborhood. Police had been seeking them for questioning and to check on their well-being. Both were taken to the Augusta Police Department and later released. The body of Joseph Marceau was found in the Washington Street apartment that Fritze and McQuade had been living in after neighbors reported hearing a disturbance on the fourth floor.  One man has been arrested in connection to the death.

(AP) — A Maine state report confirms that mechanical failure caused a chairlift accident that injured seven people at the Sugarloaf ski area last winter. The accident happened in March when the lift was carrying more than 200 skiers, causing many to jump off. It was the second in five years to cause injuries at Sugarloaf. The report says the failure of a coupling that connects two gearboxes resulted in the lift reversing direction. Then an anti-roll-back device failed to engage as intended. The state's report confirms findings of a team of engineers that released a preliminary review and investigation in the wake of the accident. Sugarloaf is spending $1.5 million to make improvements after the malfunction.

(KJ) -- After the rush of Black Friday sales and lines fade, shoppers will have another opportunity to catch some deals and events on the local front when central Maine retailers and restaurants partake in the nationwide recognition of Small Business Saturday. According to the KJ, Small Business Saturday is a nationwide event started by American Express in 2010 in response to Black Friday and Cyber Monday. The mission of the day is to encourage shoppers to spend their money locally when many holiday shopping sales are focused around national retailers.

(KJ) -- Firefighters across the capital area scrambled Wednesday afternoon to battle a pair of blazes that broke out almost simultaneously in Augusta and Gardiner. According to the KJ, nobody was hurt in either fire, but a single-family home on Old Brunswick Road in Gardiner was destroyed. A fire sparked by a dryer in a third-floor apartment on Eastern Avenue in Augusta caused room and content damage but spared the building itself.

(WABI) -- A Bangor man was taken to a hospital by helicopter after crashing his car on the interstate early Thursday morning in Sidney. State Police say 44-year-old Christopher Galvin was driving south on I-95 when his van went off the road into ledges and rolled over. Responders say his injuries are life-threatening. Galvin was air lifted to Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston. The crash is still being investigated.

(AP) -- For the first time, there's expected to be more people visiting retailers' web sites through their smartphones than on desktop computers or tablets during the first weekend of the holiday shopping season that begins on Thanksgiving Day. And even though everyone who "window shops" on their phones isn't going to buy, mobile sales are jumping too. Mobile sales are expected to account for 36.1 percent of online sales, up from 27 percent last year, according to IBM Watson Trend. Retailers have made mobile shopping easier by improving hgier apps, and customers find it easier to do as screen sixes have gotten bigger. Digital wallets and apps that let shoppers store payment information are helping too.

(AP) — Early numbers aren't out yet on how many shoppers headed to stores on Thanksgiving, but it's expected that more than three times the number of people will venture out to shop on the day after the holiday known as Black Friday. The National Retail Federation expected about 30 million to shop on Thanksgiving, compared with 99.7 million on Black Friday. And overall, the trade group estimates about 135.8 million people will be shopping during the four-day weekend, compared with 133.7 million last year.

(AP) — It almost looks like a rock concert, with young people screaming. Pope Francis is holding his final public event in Kenya, with a huge youth rally at a sports stadium. Thousands of flag-waving young Kenyans have been waiting in the stands for the pope, and the crowd erupted in cheers when Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta arrived. Earlier, Francis visited one of Nairobi's slums, denouncing the conditions its many residents have been forced to live in.

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