Avery Day formerly as acting commissioner of the DEP.
2016
Morning Sentinel Feb. 1 police log
Waterville area police reports for Feb. 1, 2016.
Winthrop man pleads guilty to drug and gun charges
Chad Goucher, 38, is a convicted felon who could get up to 30 years in federal prison.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to hold anti-terrorism exercise
Gate 2 on Whipple Road will be closed for less than 15 minutes at some point on Wednesday as part of the drill.
Clinton, Sanders look for liftoff in Iowa’s caucuses
Few expect voter turnout to approach 2008 levels, but Sanders said a higher turnout would help him upset Clinton.
WHO declares Zika virus international emergency
Much of the alarm comes from reports that Zika is suspected as a cause of what may be up to thousands of Brazilian babies being born with abnormally small heads and incomplete brain development.
In Dixfield, stray cats marking time for fat inheritance
The town and five women who care for the town’s strays have sued the trustees of Barbara Thorpe’s estate to fulfill her wishes.
Convicted sex offender accused of making videos on Bowdoin campus, elsewhere
Stephen L. McIntire, 55, was a member of a support group for sex offenders that had met at a Brunswick church until the group was told to meet elsewhere in November.
LePage renews push to house forensic patients at Maine State Prison
The Legislature rejected an earlier attempt to move some patients from Augusta’s Riverview Psychiatric Center to the state prison in Warren.