The Westbrook Police Department arrested a man on Wednesday accused of firing at multiple people near the Westbrook Commons following a days-long investigation.

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At approximately 5:55 p.m. on August 9, Westbrook officers responded to the area of Westbrook Commons following reports of several gunshots.

Officers arrived to discover that a man had allegedly fired a handgun at several people walking in the Commons.

Police determined that all of the individuals involved were known to each other and assessed that the incident was allegedly a targeted shooting.

No one was struck during the incident, and the suspect was not immediately located

He was identified as Calvin Lombard, 21, of both Westbrook and South Portland, following an investigation, and police arrested him without incident on Wednesday night.

Lombard was charged with attempted elevated aggravated assault, reckless conduct with a firearm, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, and threatening display of a weapon.

He was transported to the Cumberland County Jail, where he was held without bail.

The Brewer Police Department and Maine Drug Enforcement Agency (MDEA) arrested three suspects, including a man from Massachusetts, on Thursday while executing a search warrant.

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Law enforcement responded to a Center Street residence to execute a drug-related search warrant.

During the warrant execution, police allegedly discovered drugs and firearms.

Police also located and arrested three suspects.

Ricardo Costa, 19, of Fall River, Massachusetts, was charged with aggravated trafficking of scheduled drugs and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person.

Chelsea Frazier, 33, of Brewer was charged with unlawful possession of Schedule W drugs.

Dennis Fogeallaz, 41, of Brewer was charged with unlawful possession of schedule W drugs, violation of conditions

An Oxford County sheriff’s deputy shot an armed suspect’s hands on Monday while responding to an alleged domestic violence incident.

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Oxford deputies responded, along with the Maine State Police, Maine Warden Service, and Fryeburg Police Department, to reports of a domestic dispute at 11 Porter Road in Brownfield.

The caller reported that Aric Junkins, 40, of Brownfield, was chasing his wife with a gun.

When law enforcement arrived, they allegedly discovered an armed Junkins who reportedly aimed his firearm in their direction.

In response, Oxford Deputy Andre Chasse fired twice at Junkins and struck him in his hands, disabling the threat.

Junkins was briefly treated at the scene before being transported to Bridgton Hospital. He was subsequently transferred to the Massachusetts General Hospital for further treatment.

As is standard practice for an officer-involved shooting, Deputy Chasse will be placed on administrative leave while the Attorney General’s

The podcaster who has broken the most news on the affair between Mike Vrabel and Dianna Russini says her employer may be culpable in encouraging the canoodling.

Tony Farmer is raising the possibility that the New York Times/The Athletic may have suggested to its female NFL reporter that she get close to Vrabel to help her get insider football information from him.

"The Dianna Russini-Mike Vrabel scandal has dominated the NFL offseason in a way few stories have managed in recent memory," says Yahoo Sports. "Yet four months after Page Six first published photos of the two together, major questions still surround the situation and what happened behind the scenes.

"At the center of those questions sits The Athletic’s internal investigation into Russini’s conduct," writes Yahoo reporter Pritish Ganguly, quoting a report from Pro Football Network.

"But

Israeli prime minister refuses Gaza withdrawal until Hamas is fully disarmed as Washington confronts simultaneous crises involving Iran, the Strait of Hormuz and renewed Houthi attacks

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu publicly rejected President Donald Trump's 15-point Gaza peace proposal Sunday, opening a rare and potentially consequential disagreement between two leaders who have otherwise remained closely aligned throughout the widening Middle East conflict.

"Israel rejects the 15-point document," Netanyahu told his Cabinet, according to the Associated Press, while making clear that Israeli forces will not withdraw from Gaza until Hamas has been fully disarmed.

The rejection puts Netanyahu directly at odds with a central provision of the Trump administration's latest Gaza proposal, which calls for a phased Israeli withdrawal alongside the dismantling of Hamas' military capabilities and a transition to a new Palestinian governing structure backed by international security forces.

Netanyahu's objection appears to center largely on sequencing.

Trump's proposal envisions Israeli forces pulling back as Hamas disarms.

As the UMaine Black Bears get ready to kick off their fall football season, they’ve got a leg up on the competition.

When it comes to mascots, that is.

The Maine college football team shares with Cornell University the black bear mascot.

Cornell hasn’t yet adopted the black bear as an official mascot, but its administrators aren’t taking any chances.

The school administration has now banned bear carcasses from the dorms at the New York school.

Last September, two Cornell students plopped a bear carcass on a table in a communal dorm kitchen and began carving it up.

They planned to make "black-bear pastrami," as one of them described their plans later.

But soon after they put the raw meat in the freezer, a picture of the animal laid out with its hide stripped began to circulate on social media.

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The offer includes two premium lower-level season tickets for 32 years, a signed and game-worn Flagg rookie jersey, and a postgame photo with the Mavericks star from Newport, Maine.

The package also includes a trip to see the Mavericks play the Boston Celtics, a private photo shoot with the Rookie of the Year and Larry O'Brien trophies, and a VIP tour of Dallas' practice facility with a team meet-and-greet, according to i95rocks.com's Jordan Verge.

The offer also features a private basketball experience for up to 10 guests at American Airlines Center and remains subject to a final written agreement.

Flagg signed the highly anticipated card at Fanatics Fest last month, where Fanatics Collectibles CEO Mike Mahan called it one of the most anticipated basketball cards in years.

The NBA phenom from Maine suggested the eventual owner hold on to it as his career progresses, while Sports Cards Investor founder Geoff Wilson said the card could be worth millions.

This Maine shark thing is starting to get, like, serious.

A shark here or there, OK.

But now marine patrol is saying the number of great whites seen off Scarborough in the past week is up to maybe a dozen.

A dozen.

At first a fisherman in a kayak spotted two, on Tuesday. In the video he shot you could hear the terror in his voice.

But within 48 hours Scarborough Police say they received reports of seven and maybe even a dozen.

SHARK SPOTTING 🦈: Incredible drone footage captured two great white sharks cruising through the waters close to shore in Scarborough, Maine, on August 5. pic.twitter.com/QzTe1ZygPL

— FOX Weather (@foxweather) August 9, 2026

The sharks were estimated to be as long as 12 feet, CBS News reports.

They were observed off Pine Point about a mile north of Old Orchard Beach.

Amity you have met your match.

Maine politicians mobilized after an ICE shooting and the detention of a Portland nurse. A Maine Wire review found a dramatically different public response when victims were killed or allegedly assaulted in cases involving people federal authorities say were unlawfully present in the United States.

Within hours of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent fatally shooting Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford last month, hundreds of people were gathering in the streets.

Candles were lit.

Flowers were placed near the site where the 25-year-old Colombian national died.

Hundreds gathered for a vigil in Biddeford and another demonstration in Portland. Elected officials demanded answers. Biddeford Mayor Liam LaFountain later met with Durán Guerrero’s family and publicly called for justice and a transparent investigation into the shooting.

The political response was immediate, visible and sustained.

But a five-year review by The Maine Wire raises a more uncomfortable question about Maine’s immigration debate:

Where was the same public outrage when the

The Aroostook County Sheriff’s Department arrested a Portage man on Saturday after he allegedly used heavy logging machinery to tear apart a Portage Lake home.

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At approximately 4:40 p.m., deputies received a report of a grapple skidder—a large vehicle used in logging—obstructing Route 11 in Portage Lake.

Callers also reported that the driver was behaving strangely and claimed that a nearby house appeared to have been torn apart.

Deputies arrived to discover the skidder’s male operator standing on the roof of the vehicle.

They were able to coax the man off the roof and take him into custody without further incident.

Investigators found that there was significant damage to the residence and located a large propane leak.

The suspect was identified as Gary Belanger of Portage and was

Paradise Residential Services CEO Jocelyne Ininahazwe and her family enjoyed luxury Mercedes brands while the disabled Mainers who relied on the Medicaid agency for 24/7 care were living in squalor, subject to abuse and neglect by non-English speaking staff, including some who were untrained and never subjected to background checks.

That's the chief takeaway from documents released Friday by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), including a termination letter to Paradise that cited "violations [that] place the health and safety of MaineCare Members in immediate jeopardy."

"[Paradise Residential Services] failed to ensure individuals are protected from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, specifically, lack of food, spoiled food, unsanitary conditions in the home, broken glass throughout basement, individuals have been repeatedly left without staff, staff not supervising or providing services," according to the DHHS letter.

The Robinson Report reported exclusively on Paradise's termination back

Another adult autism MaineCare company was terminated in March — on the same day Gov. Janet Mills attacked Dr. Mehmet Oz's Medicaid fraud crackdown as a political stunt — according to records released Friday by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

Like Paradise Residential Services, Beyond Residential Care (BRC) was run by an African migrant and operated with the massive MaineCare Section 21 program that is designed to provide 24/7 residential care for disabled Mainers.

Both companies are now accused of Medicaid fraud.

Unlike Paradise, BRC was run by an alleged attorney who had his law license suspended following a Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar complaint for misconduct.

The complaint alleges that