AUBURN — A judge ruled this week that three criminal trials stemming from a 2014 haunted hayride in Mechanic Falls that killed a teenage girl will be moved out of southern, central and western Maine because of potentially prejudicial pretrial publicity. Attorneys for the three defendants filed motions seeking change of venue from a local […]
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Defendants in haunted hayride crash to meet with judge next month
AUBURN — A Portland judge is expected to meet next month with prosecutors and defense attorneys for three people facing criminal charges related to the Harvest Hill Farm haunted hayride crash in Mechanic Falls nearly a year ago. The attorneys met Tuesday in Androscoggin County Superior Court with the trial judge to discuss scheduling matters. […]
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Haunted hayrides ride the line between scary and safety
Last fall, Peter Ricker debuted Nightmare on the Ridge at Wallingford’s Fruit House in Auburn, a haunted hayride frightfest with chain saws, cackling women and ample ooze and splatter. Ricker has ditched Nightmare’s tractors and wagons. This season — the first after a Maine teenager was killed in a hayride crash in a nearby town […]
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Redneck Blank organizer to host zombie-invasion ride
HEBRON — Harold Brooks, organizer of the Redneck Blank Pig Roast and Music Festival that has drawn some 2,000 people to his 200-acre farm in Hebron for the past five years, is now bringing something a little different — and a lot scarier — to his farm. During the month of October, running every Friday […]