Mike Nichols, the reported target of an alleged arson in June, said he was addicted to heroin and has been sentenced to serve eight months of five-year prison term for burglary and theft.

Kennebec County sheriff’s deputies went to a home on Pond Road in Mount Vernon at 5:30 p.m. Saturday after receiving a report that a woman had assaulted a man.

A trial for Sarah Conway, 27, now of Canaan, New Hampshire, has been specially set for January 2017.

Nathan Rasmussen, 22, was arrested Saturday night in Unity after allegedly driving while intoxicated.

The town was recently reimbursed $79,500 by the Somerset County Sheriff’s Office after the cost of policing services came in under budget in the first year of the sheriff’s office managing a Madison division.

Police have been unable to trace the origins of the gun Herman DeRico used to kill three people and himself in 2015, and the victims’ mothers say the incident makes a case for stricter gun control.