An early-morning confrontation led to gunfire but no injuries, police said.
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Friends, classmates honor memory of Newport woman
About 50 people gathered to remember Anielka Allen, a 37-year-old student at Beal College who was found dead Jan. 9 at her Newport home.
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Augusta officer returns to work after internal review of Fairfield man’s shooting
Officer Sabastain Guptill returned to work last week after being placed on administrative leave after he shot a Fairfield man during an incident on South Belfast Avenue in Augusta.
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‘A fine young man’: Family and peers remember Timothy Willard
Twenty-two-year-old Paris Police Department rookie was shot in the line of duty in 1978 in Paris.
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Arundel man nabbed with 15 pounds of pot in New Hampshire, police say
Joshua Poissant. 32, is charged with drug dealing.
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Convicted killer seeks release from state custody
Mark Ian Gessner served 22 years for a 1994 Bath murder but remains in state custody at Riverview Psychiatric Center because he was found not criminally responsible on other charges.
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N.H. man arrested after two-state chase
Joshua Kozacka, 30, of Madison is charged with multiple crimes.
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New York man pleads guilty to role in attempted Rangeley drug robbery
Hector Munoz, 52, of New York City, pleaded guilty to charges relating to his role in a 2016 attempted drug robbery in Rangeley.
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Downtown Lewiston purse snatching reported
LEWISTON — Police are seeking the person who snatched a woman’s purse Wednesday night in the downtown area. Police responded at 6:36 p.m. to a report of a robbery at 100 Pierce St., according to dispatch records. “A male subject grabbed the purse of a 47-year-old female in the area of Discount Smokes on Bartlett […]
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Report: Fewer guns found at New England airports
BOSTON — Federal officials on Wednesday said Transportation Security Administration officers across New England stopped 36 handguns at checkpoints in 2019, a decrease from the 45 that were caught in 2018. The 2019 numbers include a Minot woman who was stopped trying to carry a loaded 9 mm handgun through a checkpoint at the Portland […]