CARIBOU — Just five months after Jeanine Watson of Caribou married her husband Paul, and less than an hour before their first official Christmas together as husband and wife, she was technically dead in the skies above a forlorn stretch of Maine. What had started out as a big Christmas Eve party for family and […]
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Bangor man faces Jan. 2 arraignment in killing of EL grad
BANGOR — A 21-year-old man who told police he bound and raped, then killed his girlfriend last month is scheduled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 2 at the Penobscot Judicial Center. Zackery Mailloux of Bangor is expected to plead not guilty to one count each of kidnapping, gross sexual assault and intentional or […]
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Police: Bangor pedestrian dragged before death
BANGOR (AP) — Police said the person found dead in a Bangor supermarket parking lot over the weekend appears to have been struck by a vehicle elsewhere in the city and dragged. Officers found the victim near the entrance to a Hannaford store at about 8 p.m. Saturday. The person’s name has not been made […]
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Bangor police arrest ‘armed and dangerous’ transient
MACHIASPORT — Police say they’ve nabbed a man wanted for stealing a Jeep and loaded gun from a home in Machiasport. WCSH-TV reports (http://on.wcsh6.com/IZqf4W ) that police found 43-year-old Jason Trickett at around 5 a.m. Monday in a stolen vehicle in Bangor. The station reports he is in custody and could be in court today. […]
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Boys’ Basketball: Rams roll past Red Eddies
AUBURN — Three-pointers were contagious in the Bangor boys’ basketball camp Friday night. If you didn’t believe it after Alex Campbell and Xavier Lewis combined for three in the final 94 seconds of the first half at Edward Little, maybe the message was delivered when Campbell’s father sank a half-court shot at intermission and went […]
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H.S. Basketball: Lewis, Rams shred Blue Devils
Lewis, playing his first basketball game back in Bangor after a year with Lawrence, scored half of the Rams’ 24 points in a hectic second quarter and finished with 26 points in leading the Rams to a convincing 78-49 victory over Lewiston in Friday night’s Kennebec Valley Athletic Conference opener. “They had some bigs out […]
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911 transcript reveals slaying suspect admitted to strangling Husson student
BANGOR — The local man accused of killing a 21-year-old Husson University student called 911 after the woman’s death on Nov. 18 and told the dispatcher he had “lost it” and “strangled my ex-girlfriend,” according to a transcript of the call. “What happened there?” the Bangor dispatcher asks. “Ah … pretty much lost it I […]
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Man falls off roof, dies
OLD TOWN — A 32-year-old Bangor man was killed Thursday after he fell from the roof of a building he was working on. The victim’s name was withheld Thursday night to give family members a chance to make their notifications, Old Town police Sgt. Michael Hashey said in a news release. The accident happened shortly […]
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Organizer of Augusta pharmacy robbery sentenced to nearly 4 years
BANGOR (AP) — An Augusta woman described by authorities as the driving force behind a pharmacy robbery in the city has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. Stephanie McCormick was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Bangor to three years and 10 months behind bars and three years of probation. She was fined […]
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Augusta woman faces harsh sentence for pharmacy robbery
BANGOR (AP) — An Augusta woman described by a federal judge as the mastermind of a pharmacy robbery faces more than four years in prison at sentencing. Stephanie McCormick is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Bangor in connection with the Jan. 22 robbery of an Augusta Walgreens. Although McCormick’s cousin, […]