FARMINGTON — The drill was about lessons learned as local police officers, firefighters and emergency medical personnel responded to a mock scenario of a gunman shooting students in a classroom building on the campus of the University of Maine at Farmington on Friday. It was also about learning to work together, Franklin County Emergency Management […]
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Franklin County commissioners approve communications improvements
FARMINGTON — Franklin County commissioners voted Monday to spend $20,000 from the undesignated fund to improve communications and pave a gravel parking lot and walkway at the Regional Communications Center. Communications center Director Stan Wheeler told commissioners that the gravel portion of the lot beside the dispatch center where the dispatchers park needs to be […]
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Mexico man given 30 days for selling oxycodone
PARIS — A Mexico man pleaded guilty Thursday to selling prescription painkillers to an undercover officer last year. Charles S. Cogley, 33, was sentenced in Oxford County Superior Court to two years in prison with all but 30 days suspended and two years of probation to trafficking in oxycodone. Cogley was arrested in June on a […]
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Trio of known criminals arrested in connection with Orrington, Glenburn armed robberies
BANGOR — Three men with criminal records are behind bars in connection to two armed robberies and an attempted armed robbery earlier this month in Glenburn and Orrington, Penobscot County Sheriff Glenn Ross said Friday. Drug addiction is behind the brazen armed robberies, Ross said. “Illegal drug use in the state of Maine is driving […]