HARTFORD — A man died after being taken into custody Monday night on Pratt Hill Road, according to an Oxford County Sheriff’s Office statement. Jacob Hackett, 45, of Buckfield was discovered damaging the interior of a home after the owner fled to a neighbor’s house to contact police, Deputy Chief James Urquhart wrote in the […]

PARIS — Canadian born and raised Breagh Pyburn, 35, of Paris always knew she wanted to be in law enforcement. Her childhood dream was to join the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. She’s not sure where this dream came from as no one in her family is in law enforcement, “but I always had it.” Instead, […]

OXFORD — On Thursday, June 15, according to Oxford Police Chief Rickie Jack, officers from the Oxford Police Department responded to a local business for a report of a male in a vehicle in the parking lot consuming drugs. Upon arrival, officers made contact with the male inside the vehicle and found him to be […]

OXFORD — On Thursday, June 8, officers from the Oxford Police Department responded to an address in East Oxford for a report of a male in his vehicle passed out, according to Police Chief Rickie Jack. Upon arrival, officers identified the male as Nathan Merill, 37, and located a quantity of Fentanyl on his person. […]

AUGUSTA — Following a rise in animals testing positive for rabies in the state since the start of this year, the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Maine CDC) urges Maine people and visitors to take steps to prevent rabies. Between January and May of 2023, the Maine CDC confirmed 30 cases of rabies […]

OXFORD — On Friday, May 26, officers from the Oxford Police Department received information with regard to drug activity/trafficking involving Kelly Jenkins, 30, of Oxford, according to Oxford Police Chief Rickie Jack. Utilizing this information, Jack said, officers conducted a traffic stop on Kelly and performed a probable cause search, during which the following was […]

STATE — Initial findings from a study of nearly 10,000 Americans, including those in Maine, indicate that certain symptoms of long COVID occur together and that long COVID was more common and severe in study participants infected before the 2021 Omicron variant. The study is funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has […]