BANGOR — The 3-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at her Bald Mountain Drive residence nearly a month ago was paralyzed by the bullet, her mother Danielle Ogden said Wednesday. “She’s doing good,” Ogden said, sitting at a nurse’s break table on the eighth floor of Eastern Maine Medical Center where her daughter, […]
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Bangor woman says her daughter paralyzed by gunshot
BANGOR — The 3-year-old girl who was shot in the neck at her Bald Mountain Drive residence nearly a month ago was paralyzed by the bullet, her mother Danielle Ogden said Wednesday. “She’s doing good,” Ogden said, sitting at a nurse’s break table on the eighth floor of Eastern Maine Medical Center where her daughter, Natalia Ogden, […]
Affidavit: Bangor man told police he bound Husson student with duct tape, strangled her
BANGOR — A 21-year-old Bangor man was indicted Wednesday on one count each of intentional or knowing murder, kidnapping and gross sexual assault by the Penobscot County grand jury in the strangulation death of a Husson University student earlier this month. An arraignment date for Zackery Mailloux has not been set. Mailloux was arrested and […]
Wind knocks window out of downtown Bangor building onto street
BANGOR — A storm bearing 30 mph winds, gusting up to 45 miles per hour, and torrential downpours brought an unpleasant surprise to downtown Bangor massage therapist and yoga instructor Eric Sirois on Wednesday afternoon. At around noon, a particularly large gust of wind knocked a single panel storm window out of its frame on […]
Grand jury indicts suspect in Brooke Locke’s strangulation
BANGOR — A local man was indicted Wednesday on one count each of murder, kidnapping and gross sexual assault by a Penobscot County grand jury in the strangulation death of a Husson University student earlier this month. Zackery Mailloux, 21, was arrested and charged with murder Nov. 18 shortly after police discovered the body of […]
Bangor police bomb squad dog gets retirement send-off
BANGOR — No gold watch was given at this retirement ceremony. Instead, dog treats were the big gift. Endumin, a nearly 10-year-old Belgian Malinois, retired from the Bangor Police Department’s bomb squad canine unit on Tuesday during a ceremony at Bangor International Airport. He was with the department for five years and regularly spent his […]
Delta flight lands at BIA, waits an hour for ground crew
BANGOR — Passengers aboard a Delta flight that originated in Detroit and landed at Bangor International Airport on Sunday night were surprised when no crew was there to greet them. The flight landed around 7:45 p.m. and passengers sat on the plane for about an hour before they were able to proceed into the airport, […]
Husson students remember Brooke Locke as ‘always smiling, eager to help’
BANGOR — Brooke Locke gave Julya Spadaccini a tour of Husson University three years ago. Spadaccini, now a third-year student majoring in physical therapy, stayed with Locke for three days because the Southern California girl couldn’t get a flight out due to a blizzard. “If it wasn’t for Brooke and her smile and her telling […]
Fly-tying expo lures in new generation in effort to share traditional art
BREWER — Hugh Kelly started tying flies when he was seven. His father was a Maine guide in the Rangeley area and passed the tradition on to his son. Kelly, a mental health counselor with the Veterans Administration, said that he learned patience, discipline and art at an early age while learning to attach thread, […]
Bangor homicide victim’s father: Fighting rage is a struggle
BANGOR — The father of Brooke Locke, the Husson University student who police found strangled Monday, said Friday that he was in California picking up a load of materials when he heard his daughter was dead. “The first thing I did was find the nearest Catholic church,” Bill Locke of Darby, Mont., said during a […]