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Lewiston man pleads guilty in suffocation death of infant son
AUBURN — A Lewiston man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the suffocation death of his infant son. Danny Adams The Sun Journal reports that 26-year-old Danny Adams entered the plea on Wednesday. A...
View ArticleKennebec Journal Feb. 9 police log
AUGUSTA Wednesday at 7:51 a.m., a well-being check was performed on Weeks Mills Road. 8:45 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Creative Way. 10:01 a.m., a personal injury traffic accident was...
View ArticleNorridgewock man charged with hiding 29 bags of heroin in car
NORRIDGEWOCK — A 30-year-old man was arrested on drug charges Wednesday after more than two dozen bags of heroin were found in his car during a probation search by police. The Somerset County Sheriff’s...
View ArticleEx-pharmacy tech in Manchester avoids felony drug conviction
AUGUSTA — A former pharmacy technician completed court-imposed requirements to avoid a felony drug conviction this week, and a nurse started a similar program. Amanda J. Rickards, 29, of Livermore, had...
View ArticleTroy woman charged in the death of infant son free on bail, allowed to see...
Miranda Hopkins, the Troy mother charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of her infant son last month, is free on bail and will be allowed to see her two other young sons. Hopkins was...
View ArticleMorning Sentinel Feb. 9 police log
IN CANAAN, Thursday at 4 a.m., a disturbance was reported on Main Street. IN CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Wednesday at 8:54 a.m., theft or fraud was reported on Main Street. 9:31 a.m., trespassing was reported...
View ArticleEx-priest indicted on sexual misconduct charges in Maine is arrested in Boston
BOSTON — A former Roman Catholic priest who was indicted in Maine on 29 counts of sexual misconduct dating to the 1980s was arrested in Boston. Boston police and U.S. Marshals took 74-year-old Ronald...
View ArticleMaine Republicans accuse Portland schools chief of politicizing alleged hate...
On the day that Portland police charged a 20-year-old man with a hate crime against a group of Portland high school students, the state Republican Party criticized the superintendent of the city’s...
View ArticlePortland pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint
A pizza delivery driver was robbed at gunpoint about 2:30 a.m. Sunday in Portland as he was about to deliver food to a fictitious address that was used to lure the driver. As the driver for Papa John’s...
View ArticleMan accused of assaulting, shouting racial slurs at Portland students pleads...
A man accused of hurling racial slurs and then assaulting ninth-graders from Casco Bay High School in Portland late last month pleaded not guilty Monday to two counts of assault and a charge of...
View ArticleThree charged with sexually assaulting teenage girl at Westbrook motel
Westbrook police say they have arrested three males in connection with a sexual assault on a teenage girl Sunday morning in a room at the Super 8 Motel. Capt. Steven Goldberg said an investigation by...
View ArticleMan who set fatal Biddeford apartment house fire changes plea to guilty
ALFRED — Dylan Collins could be sentenced to 50 years in prison for the deaths of two men in a 2014 Biddeford apartment house fire that he set in anger after seeing his ex-girlfriend kiss another man....
View ArticleWaldoboro man killed after shooting officer had filed for divorce
WALDOBORO — The Waldoboro man who was shot and killed after he fired at a police officer responding to a domestic disturbance call had filed for divorce less than two days earlier. Jon Michael...
View ArticleMan arrested after armed robbery at South Portland hotel
A man has been arrested in connection with an armed robbery Monday evening at a South Portland hotel, police announced Tuesday. Lt. Thomas Simonds identified the suspect as Michael Parker, 40, a...
View ArticleMorning Sentinel Feb. 10 police log
IN BENTON, Thursday at 1:57 p.m., wires were reported down on Unity Road. IN FAIRFIELD, Thursday at 2:16 p.m., suspicious activity was reported at Rite Aid on Main Street. 3:56 p.m., a fire was...
View ArticleKennebec Journal Feb. 10 police log
AUGUSTA Thursday at 9:34 p.m., negotiating a worthless instrument was reported on Western Avenue. 9:47 p.m., a disturbance was reported on Washington Street. 9:49 p.m., a 49-year-old Winslow man was...
View ArticleOne killed, one hurt in Vassalboro shooting
A man was shot and killed, and a woman was shot and wounded by police Friday evening in Vassalboro, according to state police. The woman was taken to an area hospital for treatment, according to Steve...
View ArticleMaine golf legend was held at gunpoint in Vassalboro by a burglar whom police...
Maine golf legend Dickie Browne thought he was going to die Friday after a burglar put a gun to his head, tied him up in the basement and ransacked his Vassalboro home, an incident that sparked a...
View ArticleDefendant’s brother speaks out for first time about Winthrop slayings
When Christopher Balcer first heard the loud noise early that morning, he thought his family’s cats were chasing each other on the upstairs floor. He was staying in a bedroom in the basement of his...
View ArticleKennebec Journal Feb. 11 police log
AUGUSTA Friday at 7:57 a.m., criminal trespassing was reported on Divided Lane. 10:30 a.m., disorderly conduct was reported on Northern Avenue. 11:28 a.m., counterfeiting was reported on Western...
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