AUBURN — A judge ruled Tuesday that a racial bias charge will be included with road rage charges at a single trial for a local man. The attorney for Adam Getchell, 32, had filed a motion seeking to separate the charge. But Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy ruled against Getchell, saying all of […]
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Two New Sharon residents arrested after ‘drunken brawl’
NEW SHARON — Two people face charges after deputies responded to a report of four people fighting at a Mile Hill Road residence late Saturday night, Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said. In essence, what started as a verbal dispute turned into a “drunken brawl,” he said. When deputies arrived, they discovered six adults […]
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Police: Panel clears officer who shot Lovell man
PARIS — A statewide panel has cleared a sheriff’s deputy any wrongdoing in a shooting in Lovell last month, Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant said Monday. Gallant said Monday a panel of former and current police authorities from across the state found Cpl. George Cayer’s action’s justifiable and the department’s policies instructing officers on how to […]
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M. Lapointe: Hillary was given a break
When did Hillary Clinton stop beating her husband? In a recent book, it is claimed that she threw a lamp at her husband. She then followed that violence by throwing a book at him. It was said that the president was bloodied by that assault. Those incidents were observed by White House staffers. The assaults […]
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Eustis man accused of assaulting woman, child
EUSTIS — A local man is accused of violently assaulting a female companion in March and of spanking the woman’s young child Tuesday until he bled, according to Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. Paul Pitcher, 29, of Eustis was arrested Wednesday on a felony charge of domestic violence aggravated assault and a misdemeanor charge […]
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UMF police looking for male who assaulted student on campus property
FARMINGTON — University of Maine at Farmington police are looking for a male who physically assaulted a UMF student walking to her residence hall at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, UMF police Chief Brock Caton said Wednesday. The incident occurred near the back patio of the Education Center, which is next to High and Lincoln streets, […]
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Farmington woman found not competent to stand trial in child abuse case
FARMINGTON — A Franklin County court ruled that a Farmington woman accused of hurting a young child is not competent to stand trial and dismissed the charges Thursday. Justice William Stokes ordered the commissioner of the Maine Department of Health and Human Services to begin proceedings to determine if the woman should be involuntarily committed […]
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Former Lewiston man to serve 30 months in domestic violence case
FARMINGTON – A former Lewiston man who assaulted and threatened his girlfriend in 2013 was sentenced Thursday to serve six years in prison with all but 30 months suspended, his attorney Thomas J. Carey said Friday. Upon his release Brandon Knox, 27, will be on probation for two years. He has been in custody for […]
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Jay man charged with Circle K robbery
GREENE — Police arrested a Jay man in the Circle K robbery last month, and investigators didn’t have to go very far. Police said Thomas John Mulkern, 29, of 6 Jewell St., was already in the Androscoggin County Jail on charges involving a scuffle with Auburn police on the day of the heist. In that […]
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Sketch released of man who allegedly entered Casco home, beat resident
CASCO — The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office on Wednesday released a sketch of the suspect wanted for entering a Casco home Monday evening and violently beating the 31-year-old resident. Sheriff’s deputies went to Timbuktu Drive, off Tenney Hill Road, at 6:10 p.m. Monday for a report that an unknown man had arrived at the home, […]