SULLIVAN — Animal control officers in Sullivan are trying to figure out where nine dead goats came from. According to WGME 13, the dead animals included seven newborns that were lined up in a row in the town near Bar Harbor. The dead goats were found on top of the snow just 20 feet off the […]
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Judge enters denial for New Sharon woman accused of violating animal ban
FARMINGTON — Judge Nancy Carlson entered a denial Wednesday to a contempt of court complaint for Carol Murphy, a New Sharon woman, who is accused of having animals since Jan. 1, while under a 2010 court-ordered lifetime ban from having animals. Murphy, 70, was convicted in 2005 and 2010 on animal cruelty charges and ordered […]
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Man charged with animal cruelty in cat neutered with rubber band
LEWISTON — A man has been charged with criminal cruelty to animals after allegedly trying to neuter a cat with a rubber band. Derek Edgerton, 25, was charged Monday. He recently moved from Lewiston to Dixfield. Animal Control Officer Wendell Strout said Edgerton was friends with the cat’s owner and “thought he was helping him […]
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State supreme court upholds Industry woman’s animal cruelty violation
PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Tuesday unanimously upheld the conviction of a Franklin County woman on the civil violation of cruelty to animals. Justices, for the first time, considered and rejected a challenge to the law for vagueness. In January 2012, 26 cats were seized from the home of Julia Peck, 58, […]