The 10-year-old girl who died in Stockton Springs on Sunday was beaten and abused for months by the two adults now charged with her murder, according to court records filed by police. Since October, Marissa Kennedy was beaten multiple times each day by her mother, Sharon Carrillo, 33, and Julio Carrillo, 51, the girl’s stepfather, […]
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Man pleads guilty in Franklin County heroin case
FARMINGTON — A Connecticut man was found guilty Monday of a charge connected to the sale of heroin in the Franklin County area. Sean Michael “Cali” Blalock, 32, of Wolcott, Connecticut, was sentenced by Franklin County Superior Court Justice Roland Cote to serve six months of a four-year sentence, followed by two years of probation. Blalock […]
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Windows broken in Jay, Livermore Falls
Police in Jay and Livermore Falls are investigating reports of broken windows in a home, a car and a business Saturday and Sunday. On Sunday, a living room window and a storm door window at a home on Haines Corner Road in Livermore Falls were reported broken by a ball-bearing, Police Chief Ernest Steward Jr. […]
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UNE shocked by fatal stabbing of medical student in Massachusetts
A first-year student in the University of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine was stabbed to death Saturday morning inside a public library in Massachusetts. The victim was identified Sunday as Deane “Kenny” Stryker, 22, who had been a medical student at the university’s Biddeford campus since August. Stryker was seated in the reading room […]
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Carthage man charged with witness tampering
FARMINGTON — A Carthage man, who was charged in December with setting his father’s truck on fire, is accused of tampering with a witness in the case, according to a state fire investigator’s statement. Spencer Knox, 23, was arrested Thursday night on a warrant charging witness tampering and violating bail conditions. He was taken to […]
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Porter man, 42, sentenced on domestic violence, drug possession charges
PORTER — A Porter man was sentenced Wednesday morning to a year in jail with all but 30 days suspended on charges of domestic violence assault and unlawful possession of scheduled drugs. Peter S. Macquarrie, 42, was arrested in December and charged with domestic violence assault and threatening to light his victim’s house on fire. […]
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Fournier found guilty in 1980 murder of Joyce McLain
BANGOR — A judge has convicted a longtime suspect for the murder of 16-year-old Joyce McLain, who disappeared while jogging near her East Millinocket home in 1980. Fifty-seven-year-old Philip Scott Fournier was charged with killing 16-year-old Joyce McLain in East Millinocket in 1980. Superior Court Justice Ann Murray announced the guilty verdict at about 10:30 […]
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N.Y. driver ‘hurrying up to meet a girl for sex’ detoured in Augusta by speeding and drug charges
AUGUSTA —A New York man stopped for speeding Tuesday evening in Augusta told the state police officer who stopped him he was rushing to go have sex with a girl on Franklin Street, police said. Instead, he ended up behind bars on a charge of unlawful trafficking in cocaine and operating without a license. Deondray […]
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Temple man arrested on warrant
FARMINGTON — William L. Griffin, 38, of Temple, was arrested Tuesday after Sgt. Michael C. Adcock responded to Franklin Memorial Hospital. The hospital’s security requested assistance. Upon arriving, Adcock found Griffin to be uncooperative, and after running his information, discovered he had an outstanding warrant for failure to appear at the Waterville district court for […]
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Man charged in plot to shoot up Vermont high school had recent ties to Maine
An 18-year-old Vermont man who was arrested last week after police discovered that he was planning to shoot up his former high school spent the last year and a half at a residential facility for troubled teens in midcoast Maine. Jack Sawyer also was enrolled part time at York County Community College in Wells this […]