RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police in Virginia say they arrested a soldier who stole an armored personnel carrier from a National Guard base and was chased by police for more than 60 miles. State Police Sgt. Keeli Hill tells the Richmond Times-Dispatch the vehicle, which drives on tracks like a tank, topped out at speeds of about […]
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Some Maine jails have used naloxone on inmates
PORTLAND (AP) — Several Maine jails told The Associated Press that they have used naloxone at least a half dozen times to reverse drug overdoses. Last year 418 Mainers died from drug overdoses, an 11 percent increase compared to 2016. The nation saw over 63,600 drug overdose deaths in 2016, and U.S. Surgeon General Jerome […]
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70-year-old Bank robber recounts struggles that led to jail
It wasn’t one thing that drove Donald Sturton to decide one day three months ago to rob a bank. Pressure had been mounting. He couldn’t pay his bills. His Social Security check barely covered the rent for his South Portland apartment. He wasn’t getting enough hours from the cab company that employed him to cover […]
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Police say man being chased ran onto I-295, tried to get into passing cars
A Windham man was cooling his heels in the Cumberland County Jail on Tuesday after being accused of leading police and bystanders on a harrowing, drug-fueled chase that ended when he ran onto Interstate 295 in an attempt to get into passing motorists’ cars, and was dragged twice as he clung to vehicles that refused to stop […]
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Ransacked: Broken glass and shattered faith
It wasn’t so much the break-in itself as it was the wrath of it. “There was glass everywhere,” the woman reported. “It was on the floor and all over the bed. All the drawers were open and clothes had been thrown everywhere. It was a disaster.” And it wasn’t just the bedroom that had been […]
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New Gloucester man denies manslaughter charge
AUBURN — A New Gloucester man whose car crossed the centerline and fatally struck a motorcyclist in 2017 pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a manslaughter charge. Steven Primavera, 34, appeared in Androscoggin County Superior Court a month after a grand jury handed up an indictment for the felony, punishable by up to 30 years in […]
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State police resume search for missing Skowhegan woman
SKOWHEGAN — Maine State Police investigators returned Tuesday morning to property off Route 150 in Skowhegan, still searching for clues in the case of a Skowhegan woman who disappeared more than a year ago. The last known sighting of Tina Stadig, 40, was on May 28, 2017, in Skowhegan. She reportedly was seen July 10 […]
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Police: South Portland man set fire to kitchen to get roommate to move
SOUTH PORTLAND — A Ferry Village man was jailed on an arson charge Sunday night after roommate troubles flared into a potentially life-threatening incident. James R. Griffin, 52, of 24 Edmund S. Muskie Street, was arrested after police and firefighters were called to investigate a report of a kitchen fire at his home around 8:20 […]
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Waterville woman accused of setting boyfriend’s clothes, belongings on fire
WATERVILLE — Police arrested a local woman Sunday night after responding to a fire call on Summer Street where a woman was allegedly burning her boyfriend’s possessions in the street. Waterville Police Chief Joe Massey said police were called to Summer Street around 8 p.m. Sunday night because of a fire in the street. Upon […]
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Police: Bath bus driver charged with taking ‘upskirt’ photos unlikely to re-offend
BATH — A Bath school bus driver is charged with posting inappropriate photos of students online. After a week-long investigation conducted by the Maine State Police Computer Crimes Unit and Bath Police Department, police charged Timothy McGowan, 50, of Bath with violation of privacy. McGowan is a bus driver for the Bath Bus Service. In […]