arson

An Ashland man has been charged with arson in connection with a fire that damaged a single-story house on Wednesday.

Officials say a fire Tuesday night that damaged the Trans Canada Trail bridge that crosses the Oromocto River was deliberately set.

The person setting the fires admitted to it after being interviewed by State Fire Marshal Investigators.

A Presque Isle-area man has been charged with arson in connection with fires that were allegedly set outside a store/gas station in the Kennebec County town of Litchfield late Thursday night.

A Palmyra woman has been charged with arson in connection with a fire early Thursday that destroyed a home and other structures in the central Maine town.

The Maine Fire Marshal’s Office assisted in the investigation.

A 32-year-old Grafton man has been sentenced to seven years in prison following a series of incidents in Carleton County including an arson in Woodstock.

Three teens have been arrested and charged with arson in connection with a fire Tuesday night that gutted a building in downtown Lewiston, Maine.

A Waterville woman has been arrested and charged with setting fires Monday night at a Colby College construction site in downtown Waterville, Maine.

A man charged with manslaughter and arson in connection with the death of a 59-year-old Bangor resident over two years ago was sentenced Monday in Superior Court in Bangor.