BANGOR, Maine (AP) — The rash of killings in Maine during the last week might suggest that the state’s homicide rate is up. But state police said that’s not at all the case.

State Public Safety Department spokesman Steve McCausland told the Bangor Daily News that as of Thursday, there have been four homicides in Maine this year as of Thursday, but last year at this

McCausland said there’s a perception that homicides are up, but the reality is that they’re not.

On Sunday night, a woman was stabbed to death at the wheel of her van in a Waldoboro driveway. Also last weekend, a South Portland computer consultant was shot to death in his basement. And police are investigating the death of a Hebron man.

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