Maine State Police

The Aroostook County Emergency Management Agency says conditions are improving, but urges drivers to take precautions.

The crash happened early Thursday morning during wintry weather.

The Belgian Malinois Preacher became a K9 with the Maine State Police nearly three years ago. His handler, Sergeant Jonathan Russell, said Preacher was shot in the abdomen while chasing a suspect who was trying to flee.

Police shot and killed a man involved in an hours-long standoff in Northern Maine yesterday. Maine State Police say 29-year-old Steven Righini was responsible for wounding a sheriff's deputy and killing a state police K-9.

Police said they executed 16 search warrants that confirmed the possession, dissemination and production of child sexual abuse material.

The New England State Police Administrators Conference report does not delve into the police response to the shooting but, instead, offers feedback and recommendations on a Maine State Police after-incident report.

The judge in the case said the state had violated Leein Hinkley's rights by failing to find him an attorney, but the District Attorney's office said Hinkley posed a serious threat to public safety.

Questions continue to swirl about whether law enforcement could have done more to prevent last week's mass shooting in Lewiston as well as how the hunt for the killer was handled. Top police officials, meanwhile, are defending their actions but say they look forward to an independent review.

Maine State Police released a detailed timeline of the manhunt for mass shooter Robert R. Card II on Thursday in response to questions about how the search was conducted.

"Radio silence." That's how one longtime sheriff's deputy described the way Maine State Police provided information to hundreds of law enforcement officers who assisted with the manhunt after the mass shootings in Lewiston last week.