The Rev. Daniel Greenleaf chased away a suspected burglar who was later arrested on charges of breaking into two homes and stealing a purse and a car from one of them, Mark LaFlamme writes.
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Victim of Poland shooting still wonders who shot him. And who killed his friend?
How it all went down depends entirely on who you ask, Mark LaFlamme writes. But the killing of Richard Tayman Jr. on Aug. 2 has since been declared a case of self-defense.
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Another co-worker sails away on the Ship of Theseus
Chris Williams was my closest work bud, and I suspect that all of you understand how important work buds are, since without them, we’d go mad from our daily toil, and that applies to all professions, Mark LaFlamme writes.
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Making the cop rounds ain’t what it used to be
The relationship between the media and police has become distant and robotic; like an arranged marriage that teeters on collapse, says Mark LaFlamme.
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Should residents expect downtown Lewiston gunfire to continue in 2025?
With so many rounds whizzing through downtown, it’s probably not a matter of IF some innocent soul gets gunned down, but rather a matter of WHEN.
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Mark LaFlamme is on the hunt for the New Jersey drone swarms
The government? Aliens? Or just holiday lights on a hill? Reports of drone armadas have traveled from New Jersey to Maine and I’ll find them even if I have to travel all the way to Durham.
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Covering news in Sabattus. How hard can it be?
Street Talk: Mark LaFlamme feels a bit like that Sisyphus fellow rolling that rock up a mountain over and over.
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Mark LaFlamme: The ghost of Punk Icee and other phantoms of the streets
Street Talk: All of those fantastic street phantoms are gone now and yet my eyes will lie to me out of pure yearning for the olden days
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Mark LaFlamme: Lewiston-Auburn police won’t budge on the matter of radio traffic
Talk of the Town: The police have never provided a convincing argument for why they needed to encrypt their radio transmissions, Mark LaFlamme writes.
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Mark LaFlamme: The long gone things we miss the most
Street Talk: Lots of people miss lots of places and things, as it turns out, and those memories came flying at me like a storm of time-traveling locusts.