Jennifer Osborn

Two motorcyclists were injured after a Suzuki, operating at a high speed, crashed into a Honda, which had just pulled out into the roadway of Route 46 at Stone House Road July 31, said Officer Amanda Loeven.

Hancock County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Searsport woman, who is supposed to be on house arrest, while they were investigating a complaint in Verona Island July 30.

Maine's law court has upheld the convictions of a Verona Island man serving a 22-year prison sentence for domestic violence aggravated assault and a host of other convictions, but the justices have remanded the case back to the lower court for a merger of four of the convictions and a resentencing, according to a July 30 decision.

A Hancock County grand jury Aug. 6 indicted an Ellsworth man on a charge of visual sexual aggression against a child, which is a felony.

Bucksport Police Officer Shawn Schuurman arrested Darren Moulton, 60, of Searsport, on charges of drug possession, endangering the welfare of a child and violating conditions of release Aug. 3 on Route 1.

Hancock County Sheriff's Deputy Devin Grindle arrested Daniel Whitney, 38, of Surry, on charges of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant and operating without a license Aug. 9 in Surry.

The following were arrested or booked into the Hancock County Jail between Aug. 3-7:

Motorcycle fatalities statewide are nearly double this year compared with the same period in 2025. Three men have died in motorcycle crashes in the town of Hancock alone between July 3 and Aug. 7.

A disagreement has brewed between the town of Blue Hill and the bustling Blaze restaurant at 66 Main Street.

A June 17 court order suspended attorney and elected Hancock County Probate Judge William Blaisdell IV from the practice of law in Maine for three more years.