Jet’aime and Dasia Valentine of Plymouth, Massachusetts, were reported missing Wednesday afternoon, after being dropped off at a bus stop. (Plymouth Police Department) Chereese Ford and Craig Beaudoin The home at 55 Charles St. in Lewiston where 9-year-old twins were found after being kidnapped. (Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal) LEWISTON — Twin girls who went missing Wednesday […]
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DA won't charge woman for lying about alleged kidnapping
Joshua Brown and his wife, Sheri, addressed the media in Lewiston on Thursday, calling on authorities to press charges against the woman who accused him of kidnapping her in May. The District Attorney’s Office dropped kidnapping and sexual assault charges against the Rumford man on Tuesday. Later in the day, the District Attorney’s Office released […]
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Greene man pleads not guilty to kidnapping, sexually assaulting 14-year old girl
AUBURN — A Greene man accused of kidnapping and sexually abusing a 14-year-old autistic girl pleaded not guilty to six charges Friday morning in Lewiston District Court. Travis Therrien, 35, of 411 College St. was arrested in January and charged with kidnapping, two counts of gross sexual assault, sexual abuse of a minor, unlawful sexual […]
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Lawyer: Man accused of luring teen to her death via Facebook page is not the girl’s killer
BANGOR (AP) — A man accused of luring a 15-year-old girl to her death with a fake Facebook page was at home with his family the night of the killing, his attorneys said Monday, accusing the prosecution of making “big mistakes” in their case. But prosecutors said the evidence linking 21-year-old Kyle Dube to Nichole […]
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Trial to start for Orono man accused of using Facebook in teen’s botched kidnapping death
BANGOR (AP) — With a ski mask, a fake Facebook profile and a plan, police say Kyle Dube thought he could make himself a hero. Now the 21-year-old Maine man is set to go on trial, charged with killing a teenage girl in what authorities call a botched attempt to look like he was rescuing […]
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Livermore Falls man gets 1 1/2 years in jail for threatening woman with knife
AUBURN — A Livermore Falls man was sentenced Friday to spend 18 months behind bars after he admitted to charges of attacking and threatening his neighbor with a knife. Robert Valles, 49, of 118 Main St. pleaded guilty to felony domestic violence criminal threatening plus three misdemeanor charges in an April 23, 2014, attack on […]
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Charges: Stun gun, zip ties, shock collar used on kidnapped teen who was sexually assaulted
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man used death threats, a stun gun, zip ties and a shock collar to control a teenage girl he’s accused of kidnapping at gunpoint, imprisoning and sexually assaulting over nine months, according to indictments released Wednesday. Nathaniel Kibby was arrested in July and initially charged with kidnapping the girl Oct. […]
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American killed in Yemen had ‘wanderlust’
Luke Somers, an American who was killed during a rescue attempt against his al-Qaida captors in Yemen, had been working as a freelance photographer and editor in that country, and those who knew him say he had “wanderlust” and was drawn to new experiences. Lucy Somers told The Associated Press Saturday that that she learned […]
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Police: Men tried to pull UNH student into trunk
DURHAM, N.H. — Police say three men tried to force a University of New Hampshire student into the trunk of their car. The university’s police department says the attempted abduction happened early Friday morning adjacent to campus. No arrests have been made. The student told investigators two of the men got out of a tan […]
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New York couple arrested in Amish girls’ kidnapping
ALBANY, N.Y. — A northern New York couple was arrested Friday in the kidnapping of two Amish sisters from their family’s roadside farm stand. St. Lawrence County’s District Attorney Mary Rain said Stephen Howells II, 39, and Nicole Vaisey, 25, both of Hermon, were each charged with two counts of first-degree kidnapping. She said they […]