Barbara Hinckley, 95, lost everything to a sweet-talking scam artist who told her she’d placed second in a sweepstakes for the Publisher’s Clearing House.
Maine Crime
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Lisbon man allegedly trying to meet 13-year-old girl charged with attempted gross sexual assault
Sagadahoc County Sheriff Joel Merry said 35-year-old Chad Cornish was exchanging text messages with a 13-year-old girl but found police instead when he tried to meet her after school Friday.
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Portland police report string of burglaries at businesses
Authorities won’t say if the 15 crimes are connected, but there are similarities.
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High winds in Central Maine knock out power, close schools
High winds from a storm Thursday night into Friday downed power lines and tree limbs across central Maine.
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State police continue investigating Richmond homicide
Authorities said Friday there were no updates three weeks after police discovered Andrew Sherman’s death and 10 days after the death was classified as a homicide.
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Skowhegan man charged with child porn held on $250,000 bail
Investigators analyzing devices seized at Christopher Raiche’s Skowhegan home say he may have taken dozens of sexually explicit photos of Maine children under the age of 12.
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Police arrest 4 after report of people held against their will at Augusta apartment
Augusta Police Deputy Chief Kevin Lully said two from Augusta and two from New York were arrested at 36 Water St. on Thursday.
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Driver charged in fatal Acadia crash says state didn’t have right to take blood test
An attorney for Praneeth Manubolu argues that police erred in taking a state-mandated blood sample because the accident that killed his 3 passengers occurred on federal land.
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Two Maine boys charged with terrorizing in separate threats to high schools
Police received reports of a verbal threat made to Hall-Dale High School in Farmingdale and a note was discovered on a bathroom mirror at Nokomis Regional High School in Newport.
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Mourners gather to remember slain Waterville mother
Melissa Sousa, 29, of 32 Gold St., was killed last week, allegedly by Nicholas Lovejoy, 28, her longtime live-in boyfriend and the father of the couple’s 8-year-old twin daughters.