Steven Butler BANGOR (AP) — Police have charged a man who they say threatened a Maine high school soccer team with a weapon. Officials say Bangor police responded to a call Tuesday afternoon at the Union Street Athletic Field. Police say the Bangor High School Soccer Club was starting practice when the suspect displayed a […]
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Hartford man charged with sexually assaulting underage girl
PARIS — Bail was set at $2,500 cash for a Hartford man charged with sexually assaulting a juvenile girl inside his camper last month. Dylan Drake, 19, was arrested Friday, Sept. 29, and charged with Class A gross sexual assault, which is punishable by up to 30 years in prison and a fine of up […]
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Lebanon man dies during police standoff
A man is dead after a police standoff that dragged on for hours Monday in the York County town of Lebanon. Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, said state troopers found Wayne Castellez, 59, dead inside his mobile home on Lower Barley Road about 9:30 p.m. McCausland said Castellez “likely died […]
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Wilton murder trial ends with deadlocked jury
FARMINGTON — Justice William Stokes declared a mistrial Monday in the murder trial of Timothy Danforth of Farmington, after jurors stated they were deadlocked and could not reach a unanimous verdict. The six-day trial concluded after Stokes asked each juror if they were at an impasse. Danforth, 25, formerly of Wilton, is accused of shooting Michael Reis, […]
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Police investigating shooting death of man inside Saco home
SACO (AP) — Authorities in Maine say a 53-year-old man was fatally wounded at a home in Saco. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/2xT9HJm) reported Michael Burns, of Rochester, New Hampshire, was shot on an enclosed front porch shortly before 1:30 a.m. Saturday. State police say the man who fired the gun was a tenant and […]
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Man shot, wounded at 7-Eleven in Biddeford
A man was shot at 1:15 a.m. Friday at the 7-Eleven on Alfred Street in Biddeford . A 25-year-old Biddeford man was shot early Friday morning at a downtown convenience store. The shooting was reported just before 1:20 a.m. at 7-Eleven on Alfred Street in Biddeford. The man, whose name has not been released by […]
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Norway teen pleads guilty to drug trafficking
PARIS — A Norway man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison with all but 4½ years suspended in Oxford County Superior Court for two separate incidences of trafficking heroin. Jacolby Morrison, 19, pleaded guilty on Thursday to felony aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs and one Class B count of unlawful trafficking in scheduled […]
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Fatal shot penetrated right chest area of New Sharon man
FARMINGTON — The state’s chief medical examiner testified Wednesday that the gunshot that caused the death of a New Sharon man entered the crest of his shoulder in a downward motion at about a 45-degree angle. The three wounds to Michael Reis were caused by a shotgun, Dr. Mark Flomenbaum told a jury on the […]
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Bethel woman receives fully suspended sentence for role in drug conspiracy
PARIS — A Bethel woman received a fully suspended sentence Tuesday morning at Oxford County Superior Court for felony conspiracy to commit unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs. Morgan McKinney, 22, was one of 15 people to be arrested in 2015 as part of what officials called the largest drug investigation in Oxford County history. While […]
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Judge declares Ayla Reynolds dead
Ayla Reynolds, the toddler missing from her Waterville home since December 2011, has been declared legally dead by a probate judge, setting up what the child’s mother hopes will be a renewed quest for justice and answers in a mysterious case that’s stumped investigators. The decision by the Cumberland County judge clears the way for […]