PORTLAND — An Auburn man was sentenced in federal court to spend nearly five years in prison for having a gun after he was convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence. Willie Richard Minor, 58, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 57 months in prison, plus three years of supervised release. He was convicted Dec. […]
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Police chase car with canoe on top after driver left Belfast bar with his beer
BELFAST — A Wisconsin man led officers on a high-speed chase from Belfast to Searsport on Monday night, police said. Police received a call at about 10:30 p.m. from a downtown Belfast pub that a man had ordered a beer, paid for it and then picked up his can of Bud Light, walked outside and […]
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Topsham police seek suspect in tanning salon armed robbery
TOPSHAM — Police are looking for an armed man who robbed a Topsham Fair Mall Road business Tuesday night. The white man, between 6 feet and 6 feet 2 inches tall was dressed in a long, dark, hooded jacket, police said. His face was covered when he entered Sun Tan City at about 8:30 p.m., displayed […]
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Lewiston police say woman’s death in florist’s parking lot not suspicious
LEWISTON — Police ruled that the death of a 57-year-old woman found Wednesday morning in a parking lot off Main Street was an apparent suicide. The woman was from the greater Lewiston area. Her body was discovered in the parking lot near one of the greenhouses at Roak the Florist. The Maine Office of the Chief […]
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Nearly 40 years after infant’s death in Brunswick, father may face murder charges
PORTLAND — A retired Maine medical examiner told a judge in Cumberland County on Tuesday that she would reclassify the 1979 death of an infant in Brunswick from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome to asphyxiation, a move that the state seeks so it could pursue a criminal case. Nathan Hagar, who was 4 months old, died […]
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The weeping 12-year-old is fine. Probably.
It was just after midnight on a drizzling, cold and miserable Friday night in Lewiston. The call came in after a long period of silence over the police scanner. Somewhere on College Street, a boy of 11 or 12 had been spotted barefoot, coatless and weeping on a cold, wet sidewalk. There was nothing frantic […]
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Industry teen charged with terrorizing faces new charges of witness tampering
FARMINGTON — A 15-year-old from Industry charged with terrorizing by making a threat on a Mt. Blue school bus faces new charges. The teenager has also made threats against another juvenile who was a witness to the incident on the school bus, Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said Tuesday. The 15-year-old was arrested Feb. […]
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Backpage.com officials charged with facilitating prostitution and money laundering
Seven top officials of the website Backpage.com, long accused of facilitating child sex trafficking, have been arrested after a grand jury in Phoenix, Arizona, issued a 93-count indictment alleging conspiracy and money laundering, and the government on Friday seized all of Backpage’s websites around the world. The indictment was unsealed Monday after all defendants made […]
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Seth Carey vows to stay in DA race despite protection order against him
AUBURN — Despite a judicial order forcing him to stay away from a woman who accused him of sexual abuse, Auburn lawyer Seth Carey said Monday he still hopes to win election as the district attorney for Androscoggin, Franklin and Oxford counties. In a news conference on the steps of the Androscoggin County Courthouse, Carey […]
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State Fire Marshal’s Office: Andover fires ‘intentionally set’
ANDOVER — Residents of this small community are on edge after suspicious fires destroyed two large, vacant homesteads on both ends of Main Street, Fire Chief Jim Adler said Monday. Sgt. Ken Grimes of the state Fire Marshal’s Office said Monday that blazes Friday and Saturday nights were deliberately ignited. “Results from our on-scene examination […]