STETSON, Maine (WABI) - Maine State Police is seeking the public’s help to find a burglary suspect. State Police would like to question a man in regards to a burglary on January 8th in Stetson. The incident happened around 2:00 p.m. on Hughey Road. No other details are being released.

A Maine man was killed in an explosion Friday while using a propane torch to thaw a frozen water tank on a commercial truck, according to Maine State Police. Kerry Holmes, 66, was pronounced dead at the scene of the explosion in Molunkus, a township in Aroostook County in northern Maine, State Police said in a statement.

Maine State Police topped $10 million in overtime payouts last year, setting another record amid staffing challenges agency leaders hope will let up in the next year. The agency paid about $8.5 million to its staff for overtime work in 2023.

The 11-member deadly force review panel examined eight police shootings in 2024 and is recommending agencies work on preventing harm.

The cases are related to an apartment at 100 College Street, police said. After serving a search warrant, police detained eight teenagers.

Mills authored the state's novel "yellow flag" law with a prominent gun rights group. She says a red flag proposal that would allow family members to petition a judge to remove a loved one's guns undermines that law.

New data compiled by Maine State Police show that there were 35 homicides in the state in 2024. The year before, state police recorded 53 homicides — the most on record — including the 18 people who died in the Lewiston mass shooting. There were 40 in 1989.

PORTLAND (WGME) – Maine will not get as many crisis receiving centers as Governor Janet Mills set out to create. A crisis receiving center like "The Living Room" in Portland, run by Spurwink, is a building staffed with a team of health workers and volunteers.

Trevor Averill is charged with depraved indifference murder and manslaughter in the death of his two-month-old daughter, Harper Averill.

A father-son pair of commercial fishermen went missing Saturday night off the coast of northern Maine, authorities said.

Maine State Police said the chase ended when the vehicle crashed at the intersection of Range Road and E. Dover Road in Dover Foxcroft. Two men get out of the car and ran into the woods while a woman remained in the vehicle with injuries.

A resident found the remains Saturday afternoon in Garcelon Bog, Maine authorities said. Officials believe the remains, found at the end of Lewiston’s Russell Street, have been in the bog for “an extended period of time,” and there is no danger to the public, the state’s Department of Public Safety said in a press release on Sunday.