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Auburn Police Sgt. Eric Audette searches one of the suspects in a home invasion after a chase ended when the vehicle they were driving crashed into a snowbank at the entrance of Western Maine Transportation Inc. on Merrow Road in Auburn Wednesday morning. Two suspects were apprehended at the scene and a third was caught nearby on Fletcher Road after fleeing the scene.
A pair of Bates College students were amoung several arrested in a reported riot on the campus by the football field after students became unruly and police were called when an ambulance could not get through the crowd just days before graduation.
Lucien StPierre, background right, can't believe how lucky his neighbor was when three large pine trees blew over, narrowly missing his pool during a violent storm. The property owner, Jerry Rioux was not at his home at the corner of Orchard Circle and North Temple Streets in Lewiston.
Lewiston Police Officer Danielle Murphy nudges the head of this moose to make sure it is dead after previously shooting it in the back yard of 315 Pine Street in Lewiston. After a two week spree of running around the city being hit by vehicles and last night breaking through a plate glass window at the Lewiston Mall in front of Bull Moose Music, the sick animal was put out of its misery. The unusual behavior and condition of the animal, prompted a game warden to advise LPD dispatcher to "euthanize" the animal as it most likely had "moose sickness" caused by parasites, more commonly referred to as earworm.
Ed Gray, center, picks up debris outside his home on 153 Chicoine Avenue in Auburn after a tornado uprooted several trees on the shore of Taylor Pond. At left, Rachel Barcelou stands on the dock of her home while explaining to her sister in law, Germaine Bolduc, how it sounded like a train rushing past just before the trees came crashing down.
Josh Mercier of Leeds looks to his father for instructions as they attempt to pull this four wheel drive out of the Androscoggin River in Auburn, Maine. Josh was on his lunch break from a nearby business when he lost control while rounding a curve on North Auburn Road.
A State Police sniper and his spotter take up position across the street from the standoff on Holland Street in Lewiston.
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The Maine State Police Tactical Squad prepares to enter 181 Holland Street, which is connected to 181 Holland where a man named Dan was keeping police at bay. According to family members, a long standing domestic dispute has been going on between the man and neighbors. Police were at the location yesterday, and this morning at 5am when Justin Lord, 21 of 2 Towle Street, left for work, according to his sister Karen Brown, the man confronted Justin at the 7-11 just up the street. He pulled a "six shooter" pointed it at his head and cocked the gun. He said something to Justin, then ran back to his apartment where he is now holed up.
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United Ambulance paramedic Jeff Blake guides a Stokes Rescue Basket with Lisa Bonang StHilaire in it up to Lewiston firefighters on Switzerland Road in Lewiston. Lewiston police were questioning her to find out how she ended up on the edge of the Androscoggin River. She was found by St. Peters Cemetery worker Kevin Burgess when he heard her cries for help after he went looking for the driver of a vehicle abandoned in the cemetery.
An unidentified woman peers out the door of the Lewiston Public Library after spending the night locked inside. She was in the bathroom when the library was locked for the night. Somebody walking down Park Street heard her knocking and called the police. When police and a library official arrived to unlock the door, she stormed out telling her plight and refusing to identify herself. Officials chuckled, shrugged their shoulders and went back to work with a sheepish grin.
Lewiston Water District's Adam Hart, blue hardhat in foreground, works to unclog a storm grate to help drain thousands of gallons of water that flowed down East Avenue and pooled in the middle of Lisbon Street after a water main broke in front of CVS on East Avenue.
Who was riding the minibike when it caught on fire?
LPD officer Raymond Vega, right, pulls a python from the cracks of a porch on Pine Street in Lewiston after it tried to escape when he and fellow officer Ryan Guay, left, used a piece of wood to try coaxing a pyton into a shoe box. After thwarting the attempted escape, the toughest part was trying to find a place to drop it off as the SPCA did not want to take it since the lost pet was not injured.
Lewiston Police Lt. David Chamberlain begins chasing down Kevin Pease 22 of Lisbon Falls. The incident started when Chamberlain told a double parked motorist to move his car from Lisbon Street. Chamberlain said Pease then interfered and ignored his warnings to leave. Pease intentionally bumped the Lewiston Police Officer and began running after Chamberlain told him he was under arrest. The chase went down Lisbon onto Pine then down Canal to Chestnut. After realizing that he could not outrun the officer (he is currently training for an upcoming marathon), Pease gave up in front of the Bates Mill Complex. Pease was charged with disorderly conduct.
Lewiston Police Lt. David Chamberlain catches his breath after chasing down Kevin Pease 22 of Lisbon Falls .
Auburn firefighters use their axes to help chop away a snowbank after their truck got stuck in the parking lot of the Auburn Plaza during the height of a snowstorm. Nearly every truck responding to a gas leak got stuck in the icy lot. A snowblower hit a natural gas pipe behind one of the stores forcing the majority of stores in the mall to be evacuated.
Lewiston police officer David Levesque talks to a youth on Walnut Street in Lewiston after the juvenile allegedly stole this bicycle and bolted over the trestle at Bonney Park in Auburn over to Railroad Park in Lewiston and through Kennedy Park where he was stopped.
Lewiston police officers attend to stabbing victim in front of DVD Mania on Sabattus Street in Lewiston after he stumbled into the store to call for help after he was stabbed nearby.
Auburn firefighter Dave O'Connell gives a push out of the water to Ginger, a two year old golden retreiver who fell through the ice on the Androscoggin River in Auburn. She wondered out onto the ice across from her home on North River Road and fell through the ice.
John Dudley, right, stands in waist deep water in the middle of Bear Pond after breaking through the ice while cross skiing. Through sheer luck, he went through above a sand bar where it was shallow enough to be able to stand on the bottom until being rescued.
Area firefighters and residents work together to pull a line attached to a canoe Turner Fire and Rescue and a rescue craft Auburn Fire and Rescue used to rescue John Dudley after he fell through the ice on Bear Pond in Turner while cross country skiing across the pond.
Auburn, left in yellow, and Turner, right in orange, fire and rescue personel are pulled to shore with John Dudley, center, after he fell through the ice on Bear Pond in Turner while cross country skiing across the pond.