AUGUSTA — Kennebec County jail officials have used fingerprint records from a national database to determine the identities of two people in custody who allegedly gave fake names.Scott Murray, 28, of Gardiner, who was arrested Saturday afternoon in Chelsea during a traffic stop, was charged with possession of scheduled drugs.
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WEEKEND,HOLIDAYEVENTS
Community dinner, 4:30-6 p.m. Saturday, Perkins Hall, Penney Memorial United Baptist Church, 393 Water St.; macaroni and cheese, hot dogs, green beans, biscuits, and ice cream with chocolate topping; free; donations accepted; for more information, call 622-6401.
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL NOTES: Monmouth turning it around
After an opening-night loss at Boothbay, the Monmouth boys basketball team has won three straight, already equaling last season’s win total.
End of the world . . . didn’t happen
The appointed time comes and goes at the Mayan ruins of Chichen Itza today with no sign of the apocalypse.
HIGH SCHOOL BOYS BASKETBALL: Cony turns on pressure to beat Erskine
AUGUSTA — Cony’s quickness and athleticism came to the forefront in the second half Thursday night as they pulled away from rival Erskine.
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS BASKETBALL: Cony knocks off Erskine
SOUTH CHINA — The Cony girls basketball team missed its first six shots, failed to score until the game was three minutes old, and otherwise struggled early in all facets of its Eastern A game against Erskine on Thursday night.
HIGH SCHOOL ROUNDUP: Skowhegan rallies by Waterville
WATERVILLE — Skowhegan scored four times in the third period to take 6-4 win over Waterville in an Eastern A hockey game Thursday night at Colby College.
Mount Vernon man’s charges consolidated
AUGUSTA — Fifteen of the 57 hunting violations against a Mount Vernon man have been condensed by the district attorney’s office into a single felony charge.
NFL: Wilfork a force for Pats
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — His numbers don’t leap off the page. They never do. Yet as he has done throughout his entire nine-year career in New England, Vince Wilfork is leaving an unmistakable imprint all over the Patriots this season.
Officials tamp rumors of threats to schools
After a couple of days of rumors, public warnings and plans for heightened security, state and local police determined Thursday that there was no message threatening schools in southern Maine.