In a federal lawsuit against Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, 4 voters contend they were either disenfranchised by the system or forced to cast ballots for candidates they did not support.
Lance Walker
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Maine lawyer tapped for federal bench
Judge Lance Walker (Jack Montgomery photo) LEWISTON — A Maine judge who presided over district courts in Androscoggin and Oxford counties was tapped for the federal bench, Maine’s U.S. senators announced Tuesday. Lance Walker, a Maine Superior Court justice, must be approved by the U.S. Senate before filling the vacancy left by Judge John A. […]
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Court vacates $500K judgment in heroin death
PARIS — A justice has vacated the $552,195 judgment against a Norway woman accused by the parents of a Harrison teenager who overdosed on heroin in September of driving past one hospital on the way to another as their daughter lay dying in the back seat. In September 2016, Oxford County Superior Court Active-Retired Justice […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Hollis man sentenced to two years for assaulting police officers
PARIS — A Hollis man was sentenced Thursday at Oxford County Superior Court to two years in prison for assaulting two police officers and stealing the shirt off a Circle K clerk in Mexico in 2015. Robert Keoskie, 43, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of assaulting an officer, and misdemeanor counts of assault and […]
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Oxford County heroin dealer gets 4 years in prison
PARIS — A Massachusetts man was sentenced Wednesday in Oxford County Superior Court to four years in prison for dealing heroin. Jonathan Keefe, 28, of Wakefield, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of aggravated trafficking in heroin. He was sentenced by Judge Lance Walker, who also ordered him to pay a $400 fine upon […]
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Civil lawsuit against Androscoggin County Commission to proceed
AUBURN — A civil lawsuit filed against the Androscoggin County Commission will proceed after a superior court found certain claims made by the suing cities and towns of Androscoggin County have sufficient merit to go to trial. The court ruled, however, that the case will proceed only against the County Commission as a legislative body, […]