It was 10 PM on a Saturday night, and I was walking on the street near the Boston College campus to pick up a slice of pizza. Out of the front door of a local bar, spilled nine young men noisily. Seven of them beat the other two to the ground. The beating became animalistic […]
The Portland PD are warning that, over the past few months, a mentally disturbed man has been trying to enter cars while drivers have been stopped at an intersection. This is a scary situation for sure, and it happened recently to a friend of mine. I know people who have experienced this in other cities […]
Summertime is here, and many Maine families will be travelling. Vacation time is a time to relax, unwind, and shake off our hard winter. However, with travel, comes certain increased risks of crime. I’ve previously written about keeping your home safe while you’re away. Today, I’ve compiled a few helpful tips to try to keep […]
Yesterday, my kids overheard me talking about a women who was the victim of an attempted robbery in Portland. A man with a knife approached a woman and demanded money. The woman was able to retrieve a handgun from her car and point it at the man, scaring him off. I am very glad she’s […]
In the news is the frightening case of a Vassalboro, Maine woman, beaten during a home invasion. The robber, armed with a pair of box cutters, came in through her unlocked front door and demanded Vicodin after her husband left for work. How did the criminal know she had Vicodin in the house? The police […]
I grew up in a Magical time in Maine, when they still played cartoons on Saturday mornings, and candy bars were a quarter. Classic Rock was just called Rock, and when you visited a relative’s house, you knocked once and just went on in. We never locked our doors, until the day our house was […]
Spring must be here and summer’s on the way. The snow in my yard has finally melted, and it was in the 80s today. I took my girls for ice cream after our Mother’s Day brunch. This means that travel season is here, and soon many of you will be making like a baby and heading […]
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