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Coast Guard opens inquiry into collapse of mast on Maine schooner that killed passenger
The Coast Guard said Monday it has launched a formal investigation into a fatal accident aboard a historic schooner off the coast of Maine.
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The Coast Guard said Monday it has launched a formal investigation into a fatal accident aboard a historic schooner off the coast of Maine.
The main mast of a historic excursion vessel splintered and fell onto the vessel's deck Monday, killing one person and injuring three others aboard the schooner Grace Bailey, officials said.
He was hiking off-trail with a friend on Tumbledown Mountain when he slipped and fell.
A 51-year-old motorist in Searsport, Maine, died after a large tree limb fell on his vehicle Saturday on U.S. Highway 1 during a period of high winds, the first fatality attributed to the storm.
A 51-year-old motorist in Searsport, Maine, died after a large tree limb fell on his vehicle Saturday on U.S. Highway 1 during a period of high winds, the first fatality attributed to the storm.
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A waste management company in Portland, Maine is investigating why the facility is emitting a mysterious pink vapor.
Police are investigating a fatal crash in which an SUV veered off a road and killed a man and his grandson.
Lightning has knocked out a lighthouse on the Maine coast that was featured in the movie "Forrest Gump."
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A Massachusetts woman was killed Saturday afternoon in a Maine ATV crash.
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A man charged with stabbing his father to death in Plymouth, Massachusetts told police he "snapped," prosecutors said Friday.
Jack Russell, the frontman of rock band Great White who survived the 2003 Station Nightclub Fire in Rhode Island, has died.
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Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey has announced a plan to save five Steward hospitals from closure.
UMass Memorial Children's Medical Center in Worcester is celebrating 50 years of saving young lives.
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David Almond was living with autism and doing well when the state returned him to his abusive parent. Within months, the 14-year-old was dead.
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Triston Casas is expected to make his long-awaited return to the Red Sox lineup Friday night as the team continues its four-game series against the Orioles in Baltimore.
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