Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
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PublishedApril 25, 2024
Lewiston Strong: Hundreds come to mark anniversary of mass shooting
Roughly 300 people assembled to celebrate the 18 people killed in the Oct. 25, 2023, shooting, the many who were hurt and the families of the victims.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2024
Police investigate ‘large marijuana grow’ in New Sharon
Police seized evidence from the home, although it was not disclosed what that involved.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2024
More than 200 evacuated from ski lift at Sunday River
Some skiers reported being rescued from the Aurora lift within 20 minutes, others nearly two hours.
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2024
Police: Former Buckfield woman slain in Denver, but body has not been found
Police believe Naudiaerella ‘Naudia’ Wesley, 27, was killed just before Thanksgiving. Her body has not been found, no arrests have been made and police believe the person who killed her is dead.
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PublishedJanuary 31, 2024
Massachusetts driver killed Tuesday by police in Fryeburg
Police say a knife-wielding Massachusetts man was shot after a chase involving several departments and approaching an officer with a knife.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2024
Andover snowmobiler dies in Franklin County crash
Investigators believe Frank Clifford, 69, likely died on impact when his sled went off a trail and struck several small trees.
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PublishedJanuary 18, 2024
‘Dozens and dozens’ of cats discovered in construction trailer in western Maine
It is estimated there maybe over 50 feral cats in the community of Canton, some of them pregnant. The trailer is considered a biohazard and has been condemned by the town.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2024
Vassalboro man accused of home invasion is subdued by neighbors in Greene
Scott Hafford was charged with kidnapping, two counts of burglary, illegal possession of a firearm, criminal threatening, two counts of assault and violating conditions of release.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2023
Farmington victims remembered as ‘amazing, kind, loving souls’
Allison Joy Cumming and her mother, 76-year-old Jean Robinson, were found dead Wednesday. Maine State Police were investigating, but have not disclosed how the pair died.
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PublishedDecember 29, 2023
Police charge Temple man after surrounding Day Mountain Road home
Police didn’t find the suspect at the surrounded home when they entered about 4 a.m. They later arrested a man on Intervale Road.
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