SKOWHEGAN — A pregnant woman on her way to a local hospital to be medically induced to give birth was killed Monday morning when her vehicle slid on black ice and crashed off U.S. Route 2 in Skowhegan, police said.Desiree Strout, 27, was nine months pregnant when she was killed, police said.Skowhegan Police Chief David […]
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Paris man charged with assault
PARIS — A South Paris man has been charged with felony assault after allegedly attacking two women at their home in Otisfield. Robert L. Sanborn Jr., 35, of Elm Hill Road, was arrested by the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday and taken to the Oxford County Jail in Paris. He has been charged with felony […]
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Pregnant employee stabbed by patient at Riverview says state should have protected her, files lawsuit
AUGUSTA — A mental health worker who was stabbed repeatedly by a patient wielding a pen at Riverview Psychiatric Center last year is suing the Department of Health and Human Services, claiming the state failed to protect her from a man known to be violent. Jamie Hill-Spotswood was 18 weeks pregnant on March 16, 2013, […]
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New Portland lingerie store uses ‘local, real women’
PORTLAND — The women who will appear, wearing colorful or lacy underwear, in advertisements for Portland’s new lingerie store are not supermodels from Los Angeles. They’re local customers. Andrea King, owner of the bra fitting and fine lingerie boutique shop Aristelle, said 85 percent of all women are wearing the wrong size bra. So her […]
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Police: Victim in Old Town stabbing was pregnant
OLD TOWN (AP) — State police said the Old Town woman fatally stabbed by her boyfriend this week was pregnant. Police said 35-year-old April Haskell was killed by her boyfriend on Wednesday night before a state trooper responding to the couple’s apartment shot and killed the boyfriend, identified as 28-year-old Christopher Ouellette. An autopsy Thursday […]