ROCKLAND — Police said that they subdued a man Saturday morning who was carrying a gun downtown and who asked officers to kill him. The 22-year-old transient, who police are not naming because he has not been charged with a crime, was taken to Pen Bay Medical Center in Rockport following the brief standoff that […]
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With Labor Day parade, Newtown reflects ‘how we’re healing’
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Ten thousand decisions go into creating a big, boisterous parade. No one knows that better than Robin Buchanan, who for years has juggled the lineup at the Labor Day parade that has jubilantly closed out every Newtown summer for five decades. But never before had this happened: Calls and emails from […]
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Rumford man arrested on criminal threatening charge
RUMFORD — Adam R. Cormier, 18, of Rumford was arrested Sunday night by Det. Sgt. James Bernard on a charge of Class C criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon. A female called 911, reporting that while in front of her residence on Cumberland Street with her child and boyfriend, Cormier drove up and pointed a black […]
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Pistol rounds set off after truck catches fire
BETHEL — A full magazine of live handgun ammunition was expended Monday evening when the vehicle it was in caught fire. At about 6 p.m., Oxford County Sheriff’s Deputy Sullivan Rizzo responded to the scene of a vehicle fire on Intervale Road. Rizzo, speaking Monday, said he arrived on the scene to find a 2003 Ford […]
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Noise from air guns could be opening shots in war over offshore drilling
WASHINGTON — The use of “seismic air guns” to determine how much oil and gas lies beneath a vast swath of the ocean floor off the southeast coast of the United States is provoking an early skirmish in a battle over oil drilling that is still years away. The devices, towed behind vessels that trace […]
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Madison man pleads not guilty to reckless conduct after son at daycare had loaded gun in backpack
AUGUSTA — A Madison man accused of sending his son to a Hallowell daycare with a loaded gun in his his backpack has pleaded not guilty to a charge of reckless conduct, according to WGME. An attorney for Adam J. Keene, 31, entered a not guilty plea to the misdemeanor charge on his behalf in […]
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Madison man pleads not guilty in preschool gun scare
AUGUSTA — A Maine man whose 4-year-old son brought a loaded handgun to a day care center has pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor reckless conduct. Adam Keene’s lawyer entered a not guilty plea on the Madison man’s behalf Wednesday. The 31-year-old Keene did not appear in court. Police say an employee found the semi-automatic handgun […]
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Gun changed the equation in Sanford, Florida
Trayvon Martin is dead. George Zimmerman is not guilty. Except for the people involved in the case — who will be forever marked by the tragedy — the rest of us should move on. Before we do there is a cautionary lesson to be learned about guns, the people who carry them and the rest […]
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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 […]