LIVERMORE — Selectpersons voted at their meeting Monday night to take the Case backhoe that has been used at the transfer station out of service and replace the arms on the JCB backhoe. Highway Foreman Roger Ferland said that an ultrasonic inspection of the front-loader arms of the JCB backhoe completed by Archie Ray of […]
case
Posted inMaine
State Police move to shield sensitive data in 911 calls
AUGUSTA — The Maine Department of Public Safety hopes lawmakers will change the state’s public information law that would allow them to shield 911 call information of victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. A bill being proposed by the department also would strengthen provisions in state law that prohibit the release of personal medical […]
advertisement
Posted inBusiness, sj-web
Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe settle hiring antitrust case
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple, Google, Intel and Adobe Systems agreed to settle a lawsuit on behalf of more than 64,000 technical employees who claimed their incomes were held down by the companies’ agreements not to recruit one another’s workers. Terms of the agreement weren’t disclosed in a court filing by lawyers on both sides announcing […]
Posted inFranklin
Franklin County lawyers boycott state-appointed sex-assault cases
FARMINGTON — Two defense lawyers in Franklin County have announced they will no longer be taking on state-appointed sexual-assault cases, in a protest against the state’s compensation rate for public defenders. In a March 6 letter to the Franklin County Courts, Walter Hanstein of Farmington and David Sanders of Livermore Falls said the $50-per-hour rate for […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills, The Franklin Journal
Judge denies motions in Lowe manslaughter case; jury trial expected
PARIS — A judge denied several motions to exclude the state’s evidence in the manslaughter trial of a woman charged in a fatal crash in West Paris in 2012, following a hearing in Oxford County Superior Court on Thursday. Kristina Lowe, 20, of West Paris is charged with two counts of manslaughter, two counts of operating […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Sabattus man gets 15 years in prison for assaults on preteen
AUBURN — A Sabattus man who pleaded guilty to nearly a dozen counts of gross sexual assault over several years against a preteen girl was sentenced Wednesday to serve 15 years in prison. A reproving Androscoggin County Superior Court judge sentenced Michael Gagnier, 34, of 20 High St. to 25 years in prison, with 10 […]