LIVERMORE FALLS — Selectmen are reviewing a proposal to spend about $16,500 for more playground equipment at the Recreation Field, but no specifics have been announced. Selectman Nixon Ortiz has been working on getting prices for equipment and a fence. The $16,500 does not include fencing. In 2011, swings, a slide and a climbing net […]
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Dallas Plantation man faces assault, sexual contact charges
FARMINGTON — A Dallas Plantation man remained in jail Tuesday evening on domestic violence and unlawful sexual contact charges, according to the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office. Bradley A. Kennett, 63, was arrested Monday at the Dallas Plantation Town Office on charges of domestic violence assault, unlawful sexual contact and criminal restraint, Detective Kenneth Charles said […]
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Farmington man sentenced to 15 years for the 1979 slaying of his son
The photograph in Venus Nappi’s hand was faded by nearly four decades of passed time, but the smile on the baby’s face was still clear. “We keep talking about my son,” Nappi said. “I’d just like you all to know who my son was.” The woman stood at the podium Tuesday in Cumberland County Unified Criminal Court, […]
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Turner man faces drug charges connected to massive February bust
PORTLAND — A Turner man faces federal charges related to a massive drug bust in February. Andrew Waite, 29, was indicted in U.S. District Court on charges of illegal possession of a firearm in relation to a drug-trafficking crime, illegal possession of an unregistered silencer and possession with intent to distribute marijuana. In February, local, state […]
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Lewiston police plan sobriety checkpoint during Labor Day weekend
LEWISTON — The police announced plans for a sobriety checkpoint within the city during the upcoming Labor Day weekend. Maine’s Impaired Driving Roadside Testing Vehicle has been used at OUI checkpoints in the state since 2016. (File photo)
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Readfield man gets eight years for violating probation from ice chopper attack
Luke Blair, left, appears in Androscoggin County Superior Court with his attorney, William Baghdoyan, in Auburn on Monday morning. (Daryn Slover/Sun Journal) AUBURN — A Readfield man was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for violating his probation stemming from an ice-chopper assault on a Lewiston man in 2007. Luke Blair, 28, was sentenced […]
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Men charged with federal hate crime for Biddeford assault
Two white men from Biddeford have been indicted by a federal grand jury on hate crime charges for allegedly assaulting a black man outside a city convenience store while shouting a racial epithet. Maurice Diggins, 34, and Dusty Leo, 27, are each charged with a hate crime and conspiracy to commit a hate crime, and […]
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Augusta man threatens neighbors with shotgun after rejecting their food
AUGUSTA — Neighbors who offered an Augusta man a plate of food after he’d told them he hadn’t eaten much recently didn’t get the response they might have expected Sunday night. Police say the man allegedly rejected a meal from the two neighbors before threatening to shoot them with a loaded shotgun. Bruce M. Roy, […]
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Safe, cash, beer among items stolen from store in Salem Township
FARMINGTON — A safe, cash and lottery tickets are among the items reported stolen during a break-in late Thursday or Friday morning from Mountain Valley Market on Route 142. A safe was removed from the store and the cash drawer was open, Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said Monday. Also taken was about $700 in cash, […]
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Ex-treasurer of Litchfield Fair arrested; more than $120,000 missing
AUGUSTA — The former Litchfield Fair treasurer was arrested Friday morning and charged with embezzling more than $10,000 from the Litchfield Farmers’ Club, which runs the fair. Club officers said Wednesday that more than $80,000 disappeared from accounts over the past two years. On Friday, after a closer look at the books, that number rose […]