FARMINGTON — Selectmen have increased the Parks and Recreation Department director’s salary by $1,617 to comply with a new federal rule that increases the annual salary threshold to be exempt from overtime pay. The board also voted to increase weekend burial fees to help offset overtime pay for the town’s cemetery sexton because of the […]
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Dixfield selectmen set public hearing to discuss cemetery lot prices
DIXFIELD — The Board of Selectmen agreed Monday evening to schedule a public hearing for Monday, Dec. 22, to discuss whether to raise the price of cemetery lots. Town Manager Carlo Puiia told selectmen the town charges $200 per lot. “I asked our sexton, Todd Piper, to look at a couple of cemeteries in the surrounding […]
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Canton board sets tax rate higher
CANTON — Selectmen on Thursday evening set the 2014-15 property tax rate at $22.75 per thousand of assessed value, an increase of $1.55. It’s the same increase as in 2013-14, when the rate went up from $19.65 to $21.20. The board lowered most building permits. The cost for new construction permits went from $50 to […]
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Jury deadlocked on one defendant in Bangor triple murder trial
BANGOR — Jurors in the triple murder trial are deadlocked on one or more counts involving at least one defendant but have reached verdicts on other charges after deliberating more than 40 hours over four days, Justice William Anderson said about 5:45 p.m. at the Penobscot Judicial Center. Anderson referred to a note sent out […]
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Jury resumes deliberations in Bangor triple-murder trial
BANGOR (AP) — A Maine jury is back to work in the trial of two men charged with killing three people and burning their bodies in a car in Bangor in 2012. Jurors in the trial of Randall Daluz of Brockton, Massachusetts, and Nicholas Sexton of Warwick, Rhode Island, deliberated for three full days, surpassing […]
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Still no verdict in triple murder trial
BANGOR — Jurors in Maine are going home without a verdict for the second straight day in the trial of two men charged in the drug-related killings of three people whose bodies were discovered in a burning car in Bangor in 2012. Jurors are more than 20 hours into deliberations that began Wednesday in the […]
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Closing arguments underway in Bangor triple-murder trial
BANGOR — A prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in the triple murder trial of Nicholas Sexton and Randall Daluz that they did not need to know exactly when or how the victims died the night of Aug. 12, 2012, to find Sexton and Daluz guilty of murder and arson. “You don’t have to be unanimous in […]
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Sexton says co-defendant shot 1 victim accidentally, 2 others on purpose
Sexton, 33, of Warwick, Rhode Island, and Randall Daluz, 36, of Brockton, Massachusetts, known by the nickname “Ricky” or “Money,” have been charged with three counts of murder and one count of arson in connection with the deaths. Investigators have described the slayings as a drug deal gone bad. Sexton and Daluz have pleaded not […]
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Defense begins case in Bangor triple-murder trial
BANGOR (AP) — The defense is beginning its case in the trial of two men prosecutors say killed three people and burning their bodies after a Bangor drug dispute. One of the defendants, Nicholas Sexton of Warwick, Rhode Island, is expected to be called to the stand to testify in his own defense Monday. After […]
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Testimony in Bangor triple murder focuses on guns
BANGOR — Testimony in a Maine triple murder case is focusing on the guns prosecutors allege were used to kill three people later burned in a car fire. Witness Andy Morin-Smith testified Thursday that he sold a gun to defendant Nicholas Sexton, one of two men accused. A detective also testified about evidence collected at […]