Maine
Maine Kindergartener Dragged by School Bus
A 6-year-old boy is recovering after he was dragged almost 600 toes down the street by his college bus.
As NEWSCENTER Maine studies, the kid was getting off the bus in Buxton when his backpack received caught within the door. His mom watched in horror as the driving force took off, dragging her son.
“It was terrifying, as a mother, to be screaming down the road, chasing your son, pondering you’re gonna watch him die,” Athena Lavigne stated via tears throughout an interview with NEWSCENTER Maine Friday exterior her residence. “It’s simply terrible. It’s been terrible; and I simply hold seeing the identical scene over and over. It’s not going away.”
Buxton police stated the driving force dragged the boy 573 toes earlier than stopping. MSAD 6 college district officers say that driver is now on administrative go away. The transportation director for the district stated the driving force is new, however went via the identical 40+ of coaching all drivers are required to undergo.
Police are investigating the incident.
Lavigne stated her son is recovering from street rash and her kids is not going to be taking the bus for the remainder of the yr.
Maine
Teen shot by homeowner after targeting Maine house in ding-dong-ditch prank: authorities
A teen was shot and wounded after a group of pals pulled a prank on a gun-toting Maine homeowner pre-dawn Saturday, according to authorities.
Vincent Martin, 30, allegedly opened fire on the teens after they targeted his house in a game of ding-dong-ditch, at around 1 a.m., the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office said, according to reports.
After the teens knocked on the door of his Waterford Road house and fled, Martin opened the door and rattled off several shots, striking one of the pranksters in the right calf, the sheriff’s office said, according to News Center Maine.
The teenager, whose age and gender were not released by officials, walked into the hospital in stable condition.
When authorities arrived at the scene, deputies found a trail of blood on the roadway and arrested Martin.
He’s facing felony charges of elevated aggravated assault and aggravated reckless conduct, as well as two misdemeanor counts of discharging a firearm, the station reported.
A new take on ding-dong-ditch has become an ongoing TikTok trend where teens bang or kick a door and run away in what they call the “Door Knock” challenge.
A Texas police department warned youngsters earlier this year not to partake in the social media craze because a homeowner could confuse the prank with a burglary and start shooting.
Maine
Tumbling for cheese at Belfast’s Maine Celtic Celebration Cheese Roll Championship
BANGOR, Maine (WABI) – The Maine Celtic Celebration Cheese Roll Championship took place Sunday at 2 p.m. in Belfast.
The championship featured age group rounds ranging from young children to people over 60-years-old.
Each cheese roll championship is made up of 10 contestants lined up at the top of the hill. The cheese championship begins with a selected official rolling a cheese wheel down the hill. The goal of each contestant is to run down the wheel first. The contestant who comes up with the cheese, usually out of pile, wins! If there are more than ten contestants, contestants must race up the hill and the first ten to find an open chair positioned in the hill moves on to the cheese roll chasing.
The winners of the cheese roll championships were each awarded with the cheese wheel they ran down, and a box of artisan cheeses.
Two young cheese champions spoke about what was going through their minds as they were chasing the cheese.
“It feels amazing. 13–17-year-old boys champion Brady Winslow said. “I was just running after the cheese, I saw someone drop the cheese, and I went, ‘ok’, and I dived right for it.”
“CHEESE, CHEESE, CHEESE!” 8–12-year-old girls champion Scarlett Wagner said.
The Maine Celtic Celebration is run entirely by volunteer staff. The cheese roll championships always draw an enthusiastic crowd.
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Maine
Maine state trooper injured after cruiser rear-ended, hits vehicle he pulled over during traffic stop
A Maine state trooper is recovering after he was rear-ended by another vehicle during a highway traffic stop on Saturday night, authorities said.
The cruiser that Trooper Patrick Flanagan was in spun around and hit the vehicle he had pulled over. Flanagan and the two other drivers suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Maine State Police said in a news release.
Flanagan’s emergency lights were activated on the southbound Maine Turnpike in Biddeford when his cruiser was struck, police said.
Flanagan and the 25-year-old driver of the vehicle that struck his were taken to hospitals. The driver was issued a summons.
The circumstances that led up to the crash are under investigation, police said.
It was the third vehicle crash into a state police cruiser within 48 hours, according to police reports.
The other two crashes happened in Gardiner and Gouldsboro, CBS affiliate WGME reported. There were no injuries in the other two.
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