In this May 25, 2017 photo, licensed eel fishermen Jessica Card, left, and Julie Keene shine flashlights into the water on the banks of the Penobscot River after setting a net in Brewer. The glassy-skinned baby eels, also known as elvers, fetch thousands of dollars a pound as for sushi in Asian markets. The high […]
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Three charged after East Dixfield drug bust
EAST DIXFIELD — Police raided a home on Rollins Ridge Road early Thursday morning, arresting three and reportedly seizing more than 80 grams of crack cocaine. Jody Welch, the 41-year-old owner of the home, was arrested on a charge of aggravated drug trafficking. Renee Speranza, 26, and Adam Turner, 34, both of Peru, were arrested […]
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Lewiston man loses murder appeal
Maine’s highest court Tuesday upheld the murder conviction of a Lewiston man found guilty in the 2013 brutal slaying of 20-year-old Romeo Parent. A lawyer for Michael McNaughton, 29, argued in May before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court that the judge presiding over his 2014 trial mistakenly failed to block from a jury statements McNaughton […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Otisfield man pleads not guilty to driving to endanger, eluding officer
PARIS — An Otisfield man who led police on a chase, crashed his vehicle and attempted to flee from the scene in April pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Oxford County Superior Court to a litany of charges, including driving to endanger and attempting to elude an officer. Cody Niemi, 23, was also charged with operating […]
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AG: Lewiston police were justified in shooting at front-end loader tires
A state agency investigation into the shooting of the tires of a stolen front-end loader commandeered by two teenagers on the Maine Turnpike last September found a Lewiston police officer was justified in using deadly force. Late in the evening of Sept. 11, 2016, two 14-year-old male residents ran away from a juvenile group home […]
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16-year-old girl arrested in string of car break-ins in Fairfield
FAIRFIELD, Maine (AP) — Police in Maine have arrested a 16-year-old girl they say committed a series of car burglaries. The Kennebec Journal reports police received a call of someone breaking into cars in Fairfield around 1:40 a.m. July 22. Upon arriving at the scene, officers found a burglary victim had detained a teenage girl. […]
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Auburn man brutally beaten in Old Port still recovering
PORTLAND (WGME) — An Auburn man brutally beaten, then stabbed, in the Old Port is still recovering Tuesday night. Police saying they’re looking for at least six suspects, maybe even eight. Portland police say the victim was leaving the bars down in the Old Port early Sunday morning, heading up to his car at the […]
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Don McLean's domestic assault charge dismissed
CAMDEN (AP) — Domestic assault and terrorizing charges against “American Pie” singer-songwriter Don McLean have been dismissed after he met the terms of a plea agreement, including staying out of trouble for a year. The charges in Maine were dismissed Thursday. McLean also paid a $3,000 fine to settle three other charges that remain on […]
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Rental scam: Donations put victims back in the black
LEWISTON — In her GoFundMe campaign, Heather Coulombe set a financial goal of $1,100, the amount she’d lost in a rental scam earlier in the week. At about 1 p.m. Thursday, that goal was reached, thanks to dozens of donations that rolled in after the scam story broke. “You guys are awesome,” Coulombe wrote on the […]
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O.J. Simpson makes case for his freedom before Nevada parole board
LOVELOCK, Nev. (AP) — A gray-haired O.J. Simpson pleaded with a Nevada parole board Thursday to set him free after more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel room heist, insisting — as he has all along — that he was only trying to retrieve mementos stolen from him and never meant […]