Michael Callahan, formerly of Minot, had also pleaded guilty to burning down his own house in 2013.
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Three boys from Waterville high school charged in series of threats
One of three students charged with terrorizing said he wanted ‘to pull a Sandy Hook,’ a reference to an incident in which a gunman killed 20 6- and 7-year-olds and six adults, while charges are pending against two other boys.
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Sixteen-year-old boy charged with his grandmother’s murder
Dominic Sylvester is accused of killing his 55-year-old grandmother, Beulah “Marie” Sylvester, in the mobile home they shared in Bowdoinham.
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Cornville woman charged after heroin found in her bra
Miranda Schmidt admitted to Fairfield police that she had concealed the drug worth $12,000 in her bra.
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Federal judge orders man arrested in Lewiston drug raids held without bail
He says that Richard ‘Stitch’ Daniels, 52, has an extensive criminal history ‘of violence, drug trafficking and failing to comply with conditions of release.’
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Former Palmyra man sentenced for failing to register as sex offender
Bradley Flowers pleaded guilty to the charge of failing to register as a sex offender after he left the state in 2014.
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York County woman stabbed ex-boyfriend with cordless screwdriver, police say
Police arriving on the scene found the victim with ‘substantial’ lacerations to his hand.
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Windham man who furnished cyanide used in a suicide faces sentencing
Sidney Kilmartin provided the poison that Andrew Denton of England used to kill himself.
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Three Mt. Blue students charged with terrorizing
Two middle school students were summoned and suspended from school for five days and one high school student was arrested and suspended for 10 days.
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Gardiner elementary school PTA treasurer stole $6,000, police say
Cassie Marrow, 34, of Gardiner, has been summoned on a felony theft charge in connection with the alleged embezzlement, police said Thursday.