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*Editor's note: The names of two people have been removed from this story because the cases against them were dismissed in 2018. Original story: The State Police and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency announced today the arrest of  8 people in connection with a huge drug ring in Hancock County. The investigation started in May of 2011 when MDEA’s Down East Division began investigating a group thought t

On Wednesday night, Rachel Poole, who's nine months pregnant, came to her El Paso home and started a FaceTime call with her husband, who's a soldier deployed overseas. It was a normal evening as the couple prepared for their child's birth, until Rachel was attacked and stabbed from behind.

When it comes to pulling off a robbery, this sad sack fell on his face.

The Bangor Savings Bank on the China Road in Winslow was robbed earlier today.

It all started with Zeddie Little, who remained ridiculously photogenic while running a marathon. Since then we've met the ridiculously photogenic surgery girl, the ridiculously photogenic jui jitsu guy and a host of others who have maintained their photo-ready best in less than ideal circumstance.

A thief in Boston is going to have to do some serious explaining the next time he goes to confession.

State Police have shot and killed Kurt Myers, the suspect in shootings that killed four people and injured two others in Herkimer and Mohawk, New York. Shortly before 8 a.m. Thursday, State Police, FBI and a K-9 unit entered the former Glory Days bar in Herkimer where Myers had been in hiding for nearly 16 hours and had at times exchanged fire with police.

As it turns out, the customer is not always right.

So that's what Batman looks like without the molded armor. Makes us feel a little better.

Sure, teachers may be underpaid, but there’s got to be a better way for them to make some extra money besides stealing. From their students.

The Waterville Police Department is asking the public for help in identifying the man who robbed KeyBank on Kennedy Memorial Drive Thursday, Feb. 21. The robber escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.

Oscar Pistorius was awarded bail Friday in the case where he’s been accused of murdering his girlfriend, model Reeva Steenkamp.

An Oakland woman arrested two weeks ago for repeatedly dialing 911 without a good reason was arrested again this week. It was for the same crime. In fact, she has faced the same charge four times.

It's the kind of thing that, if you saw it in a movie, you'd call it implausible: international jewel thieves stole $50 million in diamonds at the airport.

Police in the Cayman Islands are on the look out for a local woman's tooth. They may well find it still stuck in the hand of the man who "stole" it from her.

Track star Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympian and double amputee nicknamed “Blade Runner” for his artificial legs, has been charged in the murder of his girlfriend, who died Thursday.