Wind Storm
(Bangor) – Utility company crews will hit the bucket trucks across Maine today to restore power after heavy winds early this morning brought down trees over power lines. Emera Maine reported more than 49-hundred outages and growing early this morning, the bulk of them in Hancock County. Central Maine Power was much harder hit, with about 75-thousand outages early on. A fast moving storm was expected to bring wind gusts up to 60-miles an hour into Maine, and the first areas hit with high winds and heavy rains in York County reported impassable roads overnight.
Hunting Fatal
(Hebron) – A 34-year old Hebron woman has died in a hunting related incident on the first day of adult deer season in Maine. The Warden Service reports to Star 97-7 that Karen Wrentzel was not participating in hunting Saturday morning when a hunter shot and killed her. Spokesman John McDonald says the two hunters involved are cooperating with investigators. It’s the first hunting fatality in Maine in nearly 5-years. A cousin posts on Facebook that the world was robbed of a considerate soul.
Fatal Fire
(Whitneyville) – Something’s fishy after a fatal trailer fire in Whitneyville during the weekend. The State Fire Marshal’s office and the State Police Major Crimes Unit got called to the scene early Saturday morning. Firefighters found a person’s body inside a burning mobile home on Middle Street. State Police have asked anyone who was in the neighborhood between 8PM Friday night and 4AM Saturday to call them. The medical examiner’s office will conduct an autopsy today.
Pot Candy
(Local) – With the legalization of recreational marijuana comes marijuana edibles like lollipops and gummy bears. Healthy Acadia spokeswoman Tara Young says now more than ever it’s important to inspect your child’s Halloween candy. Young says in states that have legalized retail marijuana, pediatric overdoses in those states have doubled.
Trendy Costumes
(Ellsworth) The National Retail Federation says little heroes will rule Halloween this year. Toddler program coordinator for the Down East Family YMCA, Shauna Esposito-Caldwell says at the Early Learning Center she’s hearing that lots of kids plan to dress as super heroes.
Murderer Sentenced
(Houlton) An Aroostook County man will spend 65-years in prison for a 2015 murder in Houlton. WAGM-TV reports 21-year-old Reginald Dobbins was sentenced Friday for the brutal beating and stabbing of 61-year-old Keith Suitter in his home. Dobbins was 18 at the time. Accomplice Samuel Geary, who was 16 at the time of the murder, was tried as an adult and given a 40-year sentence last month.
Bush Accused
(Maine) Two more women have come forward to accuse former President George H.W. Bush of groping them. Author Christina Baker Kline says the nation’s 41st president made the same joke others have mentioned before, grabbing her butt in 2014 in Houston. Amanda Staples, a former candidate for state Senate, told the Portland Press Herald that she was groped by Bush in 2006 in Kennebunkport. The former president’s office says the 93-year-old Bush has “patted women’s rears in what he intended to be a good-natured manner.” The statement says he apologizes “to anyone he has offended.”
Mom & Daughter-Drugs
(Jefferson) Drug agents say a Jefferson woman did not have a prescription for the Oxycodone pills she was buying out of state each week. They say 69-year-old Carol Day traveled regularly to buy large amounts of pills for years, then brought them back to sell in Lincoln and Knox counties. Her 53-year-old daughter Kimberly Reynolds of Waldoboro allegedly helped with drug sales. The pair were arrested Thursday after drug agents searched Day’s home and seized evidence. Also arrested is 38-year-old Clyde Lee of Waldoboro who was at Day’s home allegedly buying pills when police arrived.
Sports
- Houston Astros 13 L-A Dodgers 12 (10 innings, Astros lead series 3-2. Houston hits 5-home runs in the game, coming from behind)
- New England Patriots 21 Los Angeles Chargers 13
- Los Angeles Kings 2 Boston Bruins 1
High School
Volleyball State Championship
Class “C” Calais 3 Washington Academy 0
Soccer Semi-Finals
Boys
Class “C” George Stevens 1 Orono 0
Football
Class “C” MDI 36 John Bapst 6
Class “D” Dexter 34 Ellsworth 20
