State police were speeding more than 90 miles per hour to join a chase after three robbery suspects. But they say the truck driver caused the crash by making an unsafe U-turn on Carlisle Pike.

A driver in Jones County was airlifted to the hospital after officials said a pickup truck crashed into a cement truck. The crash occurred on Highway 29 near the intersection of Beech Cemetery Road around 4:00 p.

Prosecutors say truck driver David Herring was distracted when he failed to stop for slow traffic on the Maine Turnpike and hit the car in front of him, killing the driver and passenger.