BANGOR — The former manager of a buffet-style Chinese restaurant in Brewer that has been the target of a federal investigation since 2006 was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court to 15 months in federal prison on multiple charges related to employing and harboring undocumented workers. Mei Ya Zhang, 29, of Waterville pleaded guilty more […]
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Former Jobs for Maine’s Graduates teacher charged with furnishing marijuana to students sentenced
Sarah Lawler-Stoddard BELFAST — An ex-Jobs for Maine’s Graduates teacher who was charged last year with furnishing drugs to her students has been sentenced in connection with the incident. Because , 33, of Belfast successfully completed a deferred disposition sentence, the felony charges of aggravated furnishing of drugs were dismissed last Thursday in Waldo County […]
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DJ Dana Wilson found guilty of child pornography possession
BANGOR — Well-known disc jockey and former Maine Sports Hall of Fame member Dana Wilson was found guilty on Tuesday of possession of child pornography . Wilson, 63, of Brewer shook his head and said “no” as Superior Court Justice Ann Murray announced her verdict at the Penobscot Judicial Center. She presided at a jury-waived […]
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Feds again urge Maine to delay EBT card photos
AUGUSTA (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage’s administration said Monday that it will begin putting photos on welfare benefit cards throughout Maine, but federal officials are again urging the state to wait to ensure that it is complying with laws and regulations. Maine has been issuing the new electronic benefit transfer cards in Bangor since April, […]
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‘We did not discuss execution, arrest or hanging,’ LePage says
BANGOR — In two calls Monday evening to the Bangor Daily News, Gov. Paul LePage vehemently disputed assertions made by a liberal blogger in a forthcoming book that LePage made references in 2013 to executing Maine’s speaker of the House and Senate president. “I was never in the room where ‘execute’ was used,” the governor […]
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New book sheds light on LePage affiliation with conspiracy group
AUGUSTA — A new book by progressive blogger and columnist Mike Tipping asserts that Maine Republican Gov. Paul LePage met regularly with a group that believed it could arrest both Maine Speaker of the House Mark Eves and state Senate President Justin Alfond and put the pair on trial for high treason. Alfond, a Portland […]
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Guilford man killed, woman injured in tractor rollover in Atkinson
ATKINSON — A 42-year-old Guilford man was killed and a Guilford woman was injured when a tractor rolled down an embankment and onto him before injuring her on Range Road on Saturday, police said Sunday. Jason Gourley, 42, a self-employed contractor, was pronounced dead at the scene of the accident, which was reported at 5:50 […]
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Family members gather to remember, dedicate monument to murder victims
AUGUSTA — Sandy Miller of Nobleboro said Sunday the granite monument that bears the names of her son, daughter-in-law and grandson will provide a place for her to visit and remember the family that was taken from her Feb. 20, 2008. Miller’s son, Christopher Bolduc, his wife, Carol Bolduc, and grandson Joshua Bolduc were murdered […]
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New Hampshire man dies in Bethel crash
BETHEL — A New Hampshire man died Sunday afternoon when a car struck his motorcycle on Route 2 in Bethel. Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant said Timothy Daigle, 43, of New Boston, N.H., was driving west on Route 2 when a car driven by Steven Thomas, 52, of Califon, N.J., and Bethel tried to turn […]
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Immigrant community, advocates decry ‘morally indefensible’ LePage proposal to cut assistance for refugees, asylum seekers
PORTLAND — Members of the immigrant community and their advocates gathered Saturday in Deering Oaks Park to protest a mandate by Gov. Paul LePage to end General Assistance to refugees, asylum seekers and undocumented immigrants. As faith leaders called the order “unconscionable” and “morally indefensible,” the mayors of three Maine cities said they would not […]