BANGOR — The father of Brooke Locke, the Husson University student who police found strangled Monday, said Friday that he was in California picking up a load of materials when he heard his daughter was dead. “The first thing I did was find the nearest Catholic church,” Bill Locke of Darby, Mont., said during a […]
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Jury convicts Tenants Harbor man of murder in drug dispute with friend
ROCKLAND — A Knox County jury deliberated for three hours Friday afternoon before convicting a Tenants Harbor man of murder in the shotgun slaying of his friend 14 months ago. Andrew J. Kierstead, 41, faces a minimum of 25 years in prison with a possibility of life behind bars. Kierstead admitted shooting his friend, but […]
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6 dead after roof collapse at Latvian store
RIGA, Latvia (AP) — Large sections of roof collapsed Thursday at a grocery store in Latvia’s capital, killing six and injuring at least 30, rescue officials said. Firefighters and soldiers were searching for survivors amid the debris. The collapse took down the Maxima supermarket’s high walls and windows in a ripple effect that filled the […]
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Husson student charged in murder of Edward Little grad
BANGOR — The woman found strangled in her Bangor apartment Monday is a graduate of Edward Little High School in Auburn. Police on Tuesday identified Brooke Locke, 21, as the woman found dead at the Essex Street apartment she shared with a 21-year-old local man who is charged with her murder. “An autopsy was performed […]
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Maine man on trial for allegedly killing dealer
ROCKLAND (AP) — Jury selection is getting underway in the trial of a Tenants Harbor man charged with killing his drug supplier for cutting him off. Andrew Kierstead is charged with murder in the September 2012 shooting death of Richard Mills outside Mills’ home in Cushing. Jury selection begins Monday in Rockland. Prosecutors said the […]
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Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine’s lawyer says DNA evidence convincing enough to create reasonable doubt
PORTLAND — Dennis Dechaine’s legal team has the odds stacked against it in the convicted murderer’s attempt to use new DNA analysis to win a new trial. Dechaine, a Bowdoinham farmer, was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Sarah Cherry of Bowdoin in 1988. Dechaine is serving a life sentence at the Maine State Prison for the […]
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Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine’s latest bid for new trial based on new DNA analysis
PORTLAND — Convicted murderer Dennis Dechaine is scheduled for hearings in Portland Superior Court on Thursday and Friday for what could be his final bid for a new trial in the 1988 torture and murder of then 12-year-old Sarah Cherry. Rockland-based lawyer Steven C. Peterson, who represents Dechaine, said Wednesday that months of DNA analysis […]
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LAX suspect set out to kill multiple TSA officers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unemployed motorcycle mechanic suspected in the deadly shooting at the Los Angeles airport set out to kill multiple employees of the Transportation Security Administration and hoped the attack would “instill fear in their traitorous minds,” authorities said Saturday. Paul Ciancia was so determined to take lives that, after shooting a […]
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Police identify two people killed in apparent stabbing, standoff in Old Town
OLD TOWN — A Maine State Police trooper shot and killed a man who reportedly stabbed his girlfriend to death Wednesday night in a downtown apartment. Police identified the couple on Thursday morning as April Haskell, 35, and Christopher Ouellette, 28, both from the Old Town area, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman […]
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Hampton, N.H., death investigated as homicide
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general says a man found dead at his home in Hampton was killed in a homicide. Authorities say an autopsy has determined that 56-year-old Robert Roderick died of multiple blunt impact injuries to his head. His death has been ruled a homicide. Roderick was found dead around […]