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Read Article Portland police are reporting a high rate of bicycle thefts at a time when a soaring global demand for bikes has led to a shortage in Maine. From Jan. 1 to May 16, a total of 61 bicycle thefts were reported to Portland police, a “concerning trend” that prompted police to advise residents to not leave bikes outside even if secured by a lock, said David Singer, a department spokesman. The department does not have data on such thefts from previous years to gauge how dramatic the increase has been, he said. Investigators have found that “thieves often drive throughout the city...

Spectrum internet outage hits thousands of customers in Maine and New Hampshire The company said all Maine customers were affected until service was rerouted to reconnect them after about 2 hours. Share Several hundred thousand Spectrum customers in Maine and New Hampshire lost internet and other services for about two hours Monday night because of fiber breaks, the company said. Internet, cable and telephone service went down around 6 p.m., the company said, and service was restored at around 8 p.m. Spectrum has more than 440,000 residential and business customers in Maine, and all were aff...

Threatening, homophobic letters mailed to residents in Portland and South Portland Four people on Tuesday reported receiving threatening, homophobic letters that were addressed by hand to their homes, police said. Share Four people with no obvious connection to each other received copies of a threatening, homophobic letter on Tuesday, police in Portland said. Three of the identical letters were addressed to Portland residents, two who live on Brighton Avenue and one who lives on Capisic Street. In two cases, the recipients displayed a pride flag outside their homes. In the third case, the re...