Waterville police responded to the robbery of an undisclosed amount of money from the Shoe Dept. Encore store around 7 p.m. Friday.
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Law court rejects 18-year sentence of Massachusetts man convicted of Waterville attempted murder
Maine’s highest court rules judge erred in considering alleged assault of hotel clerk who witnessed incident.
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Mom charged in 3-year-old’s death in Milford says she left child in car to retrieve trash, then fell into river
Kelly Brown, of Havertown, Pennsylvania, has been charged with manslaughter and is being held on $50,000 bail after police found her toddler and dog dead inside her vehicle at a gas station in a small town north of Bangor.
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Piscataquis County Jail again accepting intakes after failed state inspection report
Sheriff Robert Young said Monday that state officials have approved the jail’s plan to regain compliance.
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State police investigating Waldoboro death as a homicide
A person doing a well-being check at a Genthner Road home in Waldoboro on Saturday called 911, where police found the body of Levern Kelley.
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Bingham man sentenced to 24 years for sexual assaults of young girl
Justin Harris, 20, pleaded guilty to three counts of gross sexual assault of an 8-year-old close family member.
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Lewiston man hurt after motorcycle, SUV collide in Winthrop
The Friday morning collision on U.S. Route 202 critically injured the motorcycle rider.
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Benton man injured in early morning shooting
A 19-year-old man was undergoing surgery Friday at a Portland hospital after he was shot in the neck earlier in the day at a Unity Road home in Benton.
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Skowhegan murderer’s sentence thrown out by law court
Jason Servil, whose sentencing hearing in 2024 erupted into a courtroom melee when the victim’s brother tried to attack him, had been sentenced to 45 years in prison.
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Skowhegan man sentenced to 7 years for sexual abuse of teenage girls
A jury found Douglas Perkins, 32, guilty of five Class C counts of sexual abuse of a minor following a June trial.