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A hermit who lived in the woods of Maine for 27 years was arrested breaking into a camp and admitted to more than 1,000 burglaries, police said Wednesday. Christopher Knight left home when he was 19 and his family never reported him missing.

A 74-year-old Maine man was charged in the shooting deaths of two tenants inside an apartment he rented out at his home, and detectives are investigating whether the violence is connected to a landlord-tenant dispute, state police said Sunday....

Police in Maine say someone broke two windows at the home where a toddler was reported missing seven weeks ago. Waterville police said Saturday that the girl's grandmother called police late Friday night to report that someone was throwing things at her home.

New Hampshire police planned to search two vehicles as part of their investigation into a missing Maine woman whose young daughter was found in one of them.

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Maine police are searching for a maximum-security inmate who was mistakenly released from the county jail.