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The South Berwick Fire Department said it was called to a fire that sent a black column of smoke into the air on Knight’s Pond Road around noon on Saturday.

Maine Governor Janet Mills signed a law in May requiring the operator of a vehicle weighing under 10,000 pounds to take "reasonable measures to prevent snow or ice on the vehicle from falling off the vehicle while it is being operated on a public way."

The snow is still expected to have a total snow of 12-18 inches in southern New Hampshire and southern Maine before tapering off late in the afternoon.

"A pretty good snow event for the coastal areas," National Weather Service meteorologist Derek Schroeter said.

It's the second day of threats made against government buildings around the country and in northern New England.

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“The Maine Bureau of Emergency Communications is aware that multiple people received a duplicate or delayed Amber Alert," Maine State Police spokeswoman Shannon Moss said.

3-year-old Angie Rodondi and her mother, Norma Rodondi Jimbikt, 35, of Biddeford, were forced into a white Ford Explorer with New York license plates around 11:30 a.m. Thursday. The Explorer crossed into New York State at 3:40 p.m.

A ticket sold in New Hampshire for the Christmas Powerball drawing is worth $1 million.

The identity of the driver, who was the only one in the vehicle, was not disclosed by Berwick Police.

Sanford Police said witnesses told them the man was standing in the intersection of Main Street (Route 109) and Lebanon Street (Route 202) around 3:50 p.m., holding a knife and yelling at passing vehicles.

The single occupant of a wrong-way Honda on the Maine Turnpike hit a Rav4 head-on and caught fire, leaving three people dead Wednesday night.

The vigil will take place at the soccer field at the corner of S. Fruit & Clinton Streets in Concord.

The two messages were sent Wednesday and Thursday on Channel 16, a channel for international hailing and distress messages only. Both sound like they were made by a young boy.

Dale Mooney, 53, was taken to a hospital in need of "medical attention".

Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter were kidnapped on July 29 from the El Roi Haiti campus in Port au Prince.