FARMINGTON – A Franklin County judge set bail at $250,000 cash Wednesday for a Carthage man accused of cutting his 44-year-old girlfriend’s throat with a knife and repeatedly telling her to die, according to a police affidavit. Bennie T. Bowie Jr., 47, is also accused of punching the woman and repeatedly slamming her head on […]
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Rumford man sentenced for not taking medication
PARIS — A Rumford man who shot a man at a Richmond gas station in 2000 has pleaded guilty to violating conditions of his release for failing to take court-ordered medication. An Oxford County Superior Court judge revoked 60 days of Stanley Janiszcak’s probation Friday morning after he admitted to allegations that he had stopped taking […]
Jury expected to deliberate today in Cruthirds trial
AUBURN — The jury in the Cleveland Cruthirds attempted murder trial is expected to begin deliberations Tuesday without hearing from him. Cruthirds, 27, formerly of 260 Park St. in Lewiston, has decided he will not testify. On Monday morning in Androscoggin County Superior Court, after a week of testimony, the state rested its case against […]