JAY — Police are investigating a report of a tenth vehicle having its window shot out or shattered by BB’s, Police Chief Richard Caton IV said Wednesday. Five private vehicles and three construction vehicles were reported struck over the holiday weekend on Old Jay Hill Road in North Jay. A sixth private vehicle was struck […]
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Connecticut residents duck taxes by registering cars in Maine
AUGUSTA — A few months ago, a veteran police officer in Windsor, Conn., noticed something strange on the streets of his community — a lot of cars with Maine plates. What he discovered was a scheme by Connecticut drivers to avoid paying local property taxes by registering their vehicles in Maine through the state’s online […]
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Posted inFranklin, The Franklin Journal
Purse stolen from locked vehicle in Strong
STRONG — While an owner of a vehicle parked on the side of Route 4 was tubing down the Sandy River on Sunday, someone smashed a window and stole a pocketbook, Franklin County Lt. David Rackliffe said. A rock was used to break a passenger window to get into the vehicle and steal the purse, […]
Posted inRiver Valley
Suspect dead after standoff in Mexico
MEXICO — Police late Sunday were on the scene of a standoff at the intersection of Routes 2 and 17. They reportedly had surrounded a man who was suspected of stealing a pickup truck and fired shots earlier Sunday. The standoff near the Circle K convenience store on Route 2 went on for hours. The […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Paris board OKs $28,000 for fire department vehicle
PARIS — Selectmen on Monday approved spending up to $28,000 to buy a new command vehicle for the Fire Department. According to fire Chief Brad Frost, the department has purchased a 2014 Ford Interceptor specifically designed for use by first responders. It comes ready for communications equipment and emergency lights to be installed. Frost expects the […]
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Wisconsin man convicted of drunken-driving homicide that killed Rumford woman in 2011
DARLINGTON, Wis. — A Shullsburg, Wis., man was convicted of three felonies in Lafayette County Circuit Court on Tuesday in Darlington for a 2011 crash that killed a 21-year-old Rumford woman. In a report published Thursday in the Wisconsin State Journal, a jury found Kyle Monahan, 24, guilty of homicide by intoxicated use of a […]
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Greene man charged with threatening Sabattus man
AUBURN — State prosecutors filed a civil complaint against a Greene man under the Maine Civil Rights Act after he reportedly threatened to hit a Sabattus man with a baseball bat and called him racial slurs. Keith Clayton Hanning, 77, was charged with criminal threatening, a Class D misdemeanor, punishable by up to 364 days […]
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Augusta cyclist struck by car last month dies
AUGUSTA (AP) — Police said a bicyclist injured in a collision with a vehicle in Augusta late last month has died. Authorities said 20-year-old Terrance Ladd died on Saturday. Police said that on Aug. 30 Ladd collided with a vehicle driven by 27-year-old Leona Peaslee who was driving north on Northern Avenue and trying to […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Oxford Hills
Pistol rounds set off after truck catches fire
BETHEL — A full magazine of live handgun ammunition was expended Monday evening when the vehicle it was in caught fire. At about 6 p.m., Oxford County Sheriff’s Deputy Sullivan Rizzo responded to the scene of a vehicle fire on Intervale Road. Rizzo, speaking Monday, said he arrived on the scene to find a 2003 Ford […]
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Sabattus woman dies of injuries from crash
LEWISTON — The passenger in a vehicle involved in a head-on collision Saturday afternoon on Route 196 has died of her injuries. According to David St. Pierre of the Lewiston Police Department, 80-year-old Charlene McKeen of Sabattus succumbed to her injuries Sunday morning. St. Pierre said McKeen was the passenger in a 2004 Chrysler Concorde […]