A sergeant from the York County Sheriff’s Office had to think on his feet to wrangle a horse from a road in Cornish in the middle of the night.
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Cornish man assaults family members, arrested trying to fight police
CORNISH (AP) — Police in Maine have arrested a man who they say tried to fight police after causing a neighborhood disturbance. York County Sheriff’s deputies responded to reports of a man who was outside screaming in a Cornish neighborhood Tuesday morning. When police arrived on the scene, the yelling man refused to submit and […]
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Eight bodies discovered near Cornish Town Hall
CORNISH — Eight sets of human remains have been dug up near Cornish Town Hall, and authorities say even more may be discovered. The first skeletal remains were dug up Monday by a construction crew installing a drainage pipe at the building. The medical examiner determined that the remains were of two people, even though […]
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Mom who did 124 mph with kids in car sent to jail
PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine mother busted for driving 124 mph with her two kids in the car in April has been sentenced to six months in jail, and police say she’s now facing a driving under the influence charge. Twenty-six-year-old Cheryl Gilson of Cornish was sentenced Monday in Portland District Court. She pleaded guilty […]
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Cornish PTA president charged with stealing
CORNISH (AP) — The president of the Cornish Elementary School Parent Teacher Club has been charged with stealing about $3,000 from the group. Authorities said 40-year-old Deanna Lovell of Parsonsfield was indicted by a grand jury on the Class C felony theft charge earlier this month. Chief Deputy Bill King told the Journal Tribune (http://bit.ly/1zbFaOI […]
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Area schools awarded USDA distance learning, telemedicine grants
BANGOR — USDA Rural Development State Director Virginia Manuel has announced that Western Foothills Regional School Unit 10 in Dixfield has been selected to receive a Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant in the amount of $498,907 and Maine School Administrative District 61 in Bridgton has been selected to receive a Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant […]
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Police: Cornish woman drove 123 mph with kids in car
SACO (AP) — Police say a woman was arrested for driving at 123 mph on the Maine Turnpike with her two children in the backseat. Troopers say 24-year-old Cheryl Gilson, of Cornish, was charged Sunday with criminal speed, driving to endanger and endangering the welfare of her children, ages 3 and 5. She was released […]
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Secrecy is priority on Salinger movie, book
NEW YORK (AP) — For much of the nine years that Shane Salerno worked on his J.D. Salinger documentary and book, the project was a mystery worthy of the author himself. Code names. Hidden identities. Surveillance cameras. Until 2010, when “The Catcher In the Rye” novelist died at age 91, only a handful of people […]