A search warrant executed at Joseph L. Gagnon’s home led to the discovery of 27.7 grams of heroin, 60 grams of cocaine and 14 grams of methamphetamine, police said.
2017
Prosecutor facing scrutiny over 1992 murder trial agrees to testify
Pamela Ames says she’s convinced that Anthony Sanborn Jr. killed the victim and was rightly convicted, even though the star witness has recanted her testimony and said she was coerced.
Woodshed in Embden totaled after ashes catch fire
The building was engulfed in flames when firefighters arrived.
LePage says he wants to put a cap on energy costs for industrial users
Although Maine has the lowest industrial energy costs in New England, the governor reiterated that he thinks energy costs are keeping new businesses out of the state.
Bruce Langhorne, musician who inspired Bob Dylan’s ‘Mr. Tambourine Man,’ dies
It was Langhorne’s guitar work on Dylan’s 1965 album ‘Bringing It All Back Home’ that cemented his role as one of the architects of the emerging folk rock scene.
Man finds out what can happen when you find a 19th-century, live cannonball
The Hull, Massachusetts, man found the explosive in a box of antiques he’d bought a year earlier but never looked through.
Dow Chemical lobbies Trump administration to kill pesticide risk study
Dow wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump’s inaugural festivities, and its chairman and CEO is a close Trump adviser.
Skowpendous Family Event moved to Skowhegan Community Center
Event is set for 5-7 p.m. April 21.
As coral reefs die, huge swaths of the ocean floor are eroding along with them
Coral reefs naturally generate sand as coral skeletons die, but climate change, local pollution, and direct human-caused damage appearing to be undermining this dynamic.
Donations sought for plant, jewelry, white elephant sale
Event planned for May 25, 26 at Spectrum Generations Muskie Community Center.