AUGUSTA — As the search for convicted murderer and career criminal Arnold Nash extended into a fourth day, Maine’s corrections commissioner said the prisoner showed no warning signs that he had planned to escape from a minimum-security prison in Charleston. Joseph Fitzpatrick, addressing the incident for the first time publicly Monday, declined to divulge many […]
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Farmington church teams place in Bible Quiz Meet
CHARLESTON — Youth from Living Waters Assembly of God in Farmington traveled to Charleston Pentecostal Church on March 3 to compete in the Northern New England District Bible Quiz Meet. This was the final meet for the 2017-2018 season where teams from Central Maine come together to test their ability to memorize and understand God’s […]
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When Telstar High School flew the Rebel flag
BETHEL — In the spring of 1992, Telstar Regional High School teacher Rodney Abbott faced a difficult task. He had been asked by Ted Davis, then the Telstar principal, to explain to the student body why they needed to relinquish the use of the Confederate battle flag as a school symbol. “I had received a […]
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Changes made at Charleston youth center after inmate suffers broken jaw, official says
CHARLESTON — The superintendent of the Mountain View Youth Development Center said inmates at the juvenile correctional facility will be more closely monitored after a 16-year-old inmate suffered a broken jaw during what the teen called an “initiation” fight two months ago. “We no longer allow residents in the Pod area unsupervised,” superintendent Jeffrey Morin […]
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Dover-Foxcroft man faces meth charges
CHARLESTON, Maine (AP) — A Dover-Foxcroft man has been arrested on drug charges after police found what they say were chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamine in the pickup truck he was driving. The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says 33-year-old Joel Frigon had been under investigation for several weeks after police were told he […]
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Mountain View youth center inmate’s jaw broken as part of ‘initiation,’ grandparents say
BANGOR — A 16-year-old inmate at Mountain View Youth Development Center underwent surgery early Wednesday to repair a broken jaw he suffered during the latest in a series of “initiation” fights at the Charleston-based correctional facility, according to his grandparents, who are also the boy’s legal guardians. “They call it a beat down,” Roger Ewer […]
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2 out-of-state men face Maine kidnapping charges
CHELSEA (AP) — Two out-of-state teenagers accused of holding a man against his will are facing kidnapping charges. Maine state police said Friday that 18-year-old Ricardo David Perry, of East Stroudsburg, Pa., and 19-year-old Eugene Charleston, of Bridgeport, Conn., were arrested and were being held without bail at the Kennebec County jail. Lt. David Tripp […]