AUBURN — Local police announced Thursday that they plan to patrol local churches this weekend in response to the killing of more than two dozen people at a Texas church on Sunday. The Police Department posted the information on its Facebook page, apparently in an effort to reassure churchgoers that they will be safe attending […]
crime
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Twin girls, 9, turn up safe in Lewiston after being reported missing in Massachusetts
Jet’aime and Dasia Valentine of Plymouth, Massachusetts, were reported missing Wednesday afternoon, after being dropped off at a bus stop. (Plymouth Police Department) Chereese Ford and Craig Beaudoin The home at 55 Charles St. in Lewiston where 9-year-old twins were found after being kidnapped. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — Twin girls who went missing Wednesday […]
advertisement
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Lewiston lawyer plays role in freeing murder defendant
PORTLAND — A Lewiston lawyer who worked with a defense team that on Wednesday secured the freedom of Anthony Sanborn Jr., who had been convicted in the murder of a 16-year-old girl, said the volume of evidence not shared with Sanborn’s trial lawyers was “monumental.” A judge re-sentenced Sanborn on Wednesday to time served, 27 years […]
Posted inOxford Hills, sj-web
Bail set at $2,500 cash for Hebron hunter charged with manslaughter
Robert Trundy, right, appears in Oxford County Superior Court with his attorney, Scott Lynch, in Paris on Wednesday. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) PARIS — Bail was set at $2,500 cash Wednesday in Oxford County Superior Court for the Hebron man charged with manslaughter in the shooting death of a Hebron woman. Robert Trundy, 38, is charged […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Convicted murderer Anthony Sanborn to go free after serving 27 years
Anthony Sanborn sits in court while his attorney Amy Fairfield looks over paperwork at the Cumberland County Courthouse on the first day of Sanborn’s post-conviction review on Tuesday. PORTLAND — Convicted murderer Anthony Sanborn will go free, after serving 27 years in prison for the 1989 murder of 16-year-old Jessica Briggs. Attorneys for the state […]
Posted inFranklin, sj-web
Man guilty of killing six, including two former Farmington residents, at Texas campsite
BRYAN, Texas — A man was convicted of capital murder this week in the slayings of six people — including a pair from Farmington and a 6-year-old boy — at a remote Texas campsite in 2015. A Brazos County jury found William Hudson, 35, guilty Tuesday on three counts of capital murder for his role […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, sj-web
Body of Lewiston man wanted for sexually assaulting a child found by hunter
LEWISTON — A Lewiston man wanted on charges of sexually assaulting a child has been found dead in the woods by a hunter, according to Lewiston police. Kevin C. Mitchell, 45, was found Nov. 1 in Rockport, Lt. David St. Pierre said in a news release. The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has confirmed […]
Posted inOxford Hills, sj-web
Hunter charged with manslaughter in death of Karen Wrentzel
PARIS – The man who shot and killed a Hebron woman on opening day of the hunting season has been charged with manslaughter.
According to the criminal complaint filed by the Attorney General’s Office, Robert Trundy, 38, of Hebron is charged with manslaughter in the death of Karen Wrentzel, 34…
Posted inNation / World, Uncategorized
Texas gunman checked each church aisle, shot babies at point-blank range
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (AP) — The gunman who killed 26 people at a small-town Texas church went aisle to aisle looking for victims and shot crying babies at point-blank range, a couple who survived the attack said. Rosanne Solis and Joaquin Ramirez were sitting near the entrance to the First Baptist Church on Sunday when […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Suspect arrested after shot fired at Augusta Walmart
AUGUSTA — Police say no one was injured Monday when a shot was fired inside the Walmart in Augusta. In speaking with reporters shortly after 9 p.m., Sgt. Christian Behr said the shot was fired from a handgun around 8 p.m. and the store is now closed. Behr said an update might come later Monday […]