Patrick Culleton, 21, of Manchester died Tuesday when the car he was driving crashed into a tree near Western Avenue in Augusta.

Justice Nancy Mills on Monday ordered 34-year-old Jed St. Hilaire of Augusta, charged with robbery, theft, eluding an officer, passing a roadblock and driving to endanger, held on $20,000 cash bail or $40,000 surety.

Politicians and veterans officials recognized Ryan Lilly, 37, as the new center director at Maine VA Medical Center at Togus during an assumption of duties ceremony.

James Rich, 28, has been charged with a November robbery at the Capitol Street CVS pharmacy.

Buildings at 146 Northern Ave., 1 Penobscot St. and 55 Sewall St. in Augusta, all recently damaged by fire, have been razed, even as the investigation into the Sand Hill fire continues.

The fort Steven St. Pierre, 46, and his daughters have built is roughly 10 feet tall, 15 feet wide and about 20 feet long.

Fire that destroyed a Northern Avenue apartment building in Augusta Thursday likely started in the first-floor rear apartment, investigators said Friday, and the city has asked the building’s owner to demolish the building soon because it’s unstable.