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Lewiston has room for more pre-K students

LEWISTON — Four-year-olds are wanted to fill remaining slots for this year’s pre-K classes in Lewiston. As of Wednesday, there were 42 spaces available, Chief Academic Officer Sue Martin said. That’s a lot, Superintendent Bill Webster said. “This is the latest we’ve ever had openings in our pre-K,” he said, adding he hopes to see […]

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$10,000 bail ordered for man accused of Christmas stabbing

BANGOR — A local transient charged early Christmas morning with aggravated assault after police say he stabbed a Brewer woman in the wrist had his bail set at $10,000 Friday by District Court Judge Bruce Jordan. “He can’t come up with anywhere near that amount,” Ben Fowler, lawyer for the day, said of Steven Mathis, […]

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Florida police ID suspect in 1989 slaying of Lewiston woman

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES — A 24-year-old murder case that left a restaurant server beaten to death has been solved by DNA leading investigators to a killer serving time in prison for a separate murder, police said Thursday. “It’s been quite a day for the city of Daytona Beach Shores. I am still in shock,” said […]

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Lewiston man sentenced in federal court on gun charge

A Lewiston man was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Portland to nearly two years in federal prison for being a felon with a firearm. Lewiston police said Daniel Fowler, 35, was seen running along Ash Street, carrying what they believed was a bag with the barrel of a gun sticking out of it […]