An employee at a Major League Baseball stadium was fired and arrested this weekend after a video appeared to show him spitting on a pizza he prepared at one of the ballpark’s food stands. The video was taken during a Friday game at Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers. The employee, clad in a […]
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Lisbon man charged after pickup driven through Auburn Mall doors
LEWISTON — A 26-year-old Lisbon man police said drove a truck through entrance doors at the Auburn Mall was arrested Sunday. Tyler Nickerson was charged with aggravated criminal mischief, a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison. He also was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving property damage, operating without […]
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Former priest and Cheverus teacher pleads guilty to sexual abuse
James Talbot, a former Roman Catholic priest and long-time teacher at Cheverus High School in Portland, pleaded guilty Monday to charges that he sexually assaulted a boy in Freeport in the 1990s. Talbot, 80, was ordered to serve three years in prison. The full sentence on a charge of gross sexual assault was for 10 […]
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Side effect of trafficking law: More street prostitution?
NEW YORK (AP) — Recent crackdowns targeting the sex-for-hire industry have reduced the number of commercial ads on the internet and helped fight online trafficking. But activists and police say the efforts may have had unintended consequences — landing women and girls back on the streets, where dangers also lurk. The impact was almost immediate […]
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Lewiston cracking down on sex trafficking not prostitutes
LEWISTON — When police arrested seven women for engaging in prostitution one night last week, they took them to the police station, not the county jail. Officers asked each woman why she was on the street, whether someone had been compelling her to get cash for sex, then sent them to meet with an advocate […]
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Former priest, Cheverus teacher due to go on trial on sex assault charges
Michael Doherty remembers the moment he finally saw James Talbot in handcuffs. Talbot has a history of alleged sexual abuse of children dating to the 1970s at Boston College High School in Massachusetts, then at Cheverus High School in Portland. The former Jesuit priest and teacher has settled lawsuits with more than a dozen victims, […]
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Farmington man accused of assaulting a police officer at the fair's truck pull
FARMINGTON — A local man is accused of assaulting a police officer who tried to get him off the track during a truck-pull contest at the Farmington Fair on Thursday night. Alfred R. McCrillis, 65, of Farmington was arrested on a felony charge of assault on an officer, Deputy Police Chief Shane Cote said. McCrillis […]
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Westbrook officer exposed to fentanyl during traffic stop, goes to hospital
A Westbrook police officer was briefly hospitalized Tuesday after he was exposed to suspected fentanyl powder during a late-night traffic stop and began to feel ill, police said. After the stop, Maria V. Bowie, 36, was charged with aggravated trafficking in scheduled drugs, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs, assault on an officer, reckless conduct, unlawful […]
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Brunswick man's attempted murder case argued before judge
AUGUSTA — The prosecution maintains Scott Bubar placed a shotgun and car keys under his father’s dead body after a shootout with police May 19, 2017, in Belgrade. But defense attorney Lisa Whittier says Bubar, who is on trial on charges of aggravated attempted murder of a sheriff’s deputy and criminal threatening with a firearm, […]
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Rumford woman jailed for high-speed chases through Turner
LEWISTON — A Rumford woman who led police on multiple high-speed chases in March pleaded guilty to related misdemeanor charges Thursday. Heather Grant, 42, of 630 Prospect Ave., was charged with eluding an officer, a felony, plus two misdemeanors of criminal speed and one misdemeanor of driving to endanger. Prosecutors dismissed the felony charge and […]