PARIS — The state rested its case against Kristina Lowe on Tuesday morning after presenting three full days of eyewitness testimony that Lowe was drinking for hours before a fatal accident that killed Oxford Hills teens Rebecca Mason and Logan Dam, and that she told her friends how sorry she was that she had been […]
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Manslaughter charge against Fairfield child to be dropped
SKOWHEGAN (AP) — The youngest person to be charged with homicide in Maine in at least three decades will have a manslaughter charge withdrawn and replaced by a misdemeanor charge under an agreement that will be put before a judge next week. The deal brokered by the defense and prosecutor is in the best interest […]
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Lowe trial to start Wednesday
PARIS — A short time after midnight on Jan. 7, 2012, 18-year-old Kristina Lowe was driving east on Route 219 in West Paris and lost control of her car. She crashed her 10-year-old Subaru into a stand of trees, killing her backseat passengers, Rebecca Mason and Logan Dam. Mason was 16; Dam was 19. Lowe […]
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Bangor man charged with manslaughter in connection with baby’s death
BANGOR — Bangor police detectives have arrested a 25-year-old local man in connection with the death Wednesday of a 5-month-old child in Bangor. Samuel Moore is charged with manslaughter in connection with the death of Korbyn Antworth, Bangor police Sgt. Cathy Rumsey said Thursday afternoon in a news release. Moore is currently being held at […]
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Judge denies motions in Lowe manslaughter case; jury trial expected
PARIS — A judge denied several motions to exclude the state’s evidence in the manslaughter trial of a woman charged in a fatal crash in West Paris in 2012, following a hearing in Oxford County Superior Court on Thursday. Kristina Lowe, 20, of West Paris is charged with two counts of manslaughter, two counts of operating […]
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Bangor man pleads guilty to manslaughter in girlfriend’s death
BANGOR (AP) — A judge has accepted a Bangor man’s guilty plea to manslaughter in the killing his 49-year-old girlfriend. Superior Court Justice Ann Murray declined to accept David Coon’s plea earlier this month because he was too emotional, crying out that his girlfriend’s death “wasn’t supposed to happen.” But she agreed to accept his […]
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Judge continues hearing despite plea
BANGOR — An emotional David Coon pleaded guilty Thursday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to manslaughter in the May asphyxiation death of his girlfriend, Sherry Clifford, but the judge declined to accept his plea and continued the hearing after Coon denied touching Clifford’s throat. Dr. Mark Flomenbaum, deputy chief medical examiner, determined that Clifford’s death […]
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Bangor police arrest ‘armed and dangerous’ transient
MACHIASPORT — Police say they’ve nabbed a man wanted for stealing a Jeep and loaded gun from a home in Machiasport. WCSH-TV reports (http://on.wcsh6.com/IZqf4W ) that police found 43-year-old Jason Trickett at around 5 a.m. Monday in a stolen vehicle in Bangor. The station reports he is in custody and could be in court today. […]
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Unity man indicted on manslaughter, aggravated criminal OUI charges
BELFAST — A Unity man who was the driver in a fatal high-speed crash on July 4 has been indicted by the Waldo County Grand Jury on a battery of charges that include manslaughter and aggravated criminal operating under the influence. Alvaro Soares, 28, was driving when he crashed the vehicle on Route 220 in […]
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Families brawl outside courthouse after Lamoine man sentenced in deadly shooting
PENOBSCOT (AP) — Bangor police are investigating a brawl that erupted outside the Penobscot County courthouse after a man pleaded guilty to a fatal shooting. Friends and family of 32-year-old Lawrence “Randy” Sinclair Jr. got into a fight Wednesday with friends of Michael Carter after Carter pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Sinclair’s March 2012 death. […]