Ryan Reardon is charged with choking a woman with whom he’d had an affair.
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Prosecutor says murder defendant shot woman in Down East Maine over insults
Carine Reeves, the first person to go on trial for murder in Maine since the start of the pandemic, shot Sally Shaw because she’d insulted the mother of his children, Assistant Attorney General Megan Elam tells jurors.
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Dover-Foxcroft police chief arrested and charged in domestic assault
Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Ryan Reardon is accused of trying to strangle a woman with whom he was having an affair.
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Maine police make arrest in decades-old cold-case killing
Kirt Damon Sr. of Stockton Springs is charged with murder in the beating death of a woman in 1984.
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Police say Greely High threat came from Tennessee teenager
Cumberland police say a 16-year-old from Tennessee was responsible for communicating a threat that prompted a shutdown of in-person classes at Greely High School last week.
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Central Maine Medical Center lifts lockdown after gun threat deemed not credible
After several hours, police concluded the threat wasn’t credible.
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Search for convicted sex offender continues in Rangeley and Byron areas
The Maine Department of Corrections, with the assistance of nearly a dozen law enforcement agencies, are continuing to search for Shawn Batchelder, 36, who has been on the run since Sept. 12.
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Wilton man accused of striking 3 people with Jeep, including bride, at a wedding in Livermore
Curtis Moody, 51, was arrested on three counts of aggravated assault, and charges of driving to endanger, violating condition of release and reckless conduct.
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Auburn police seek suspect in ballfield vandalism
AUBURN — Police are asking for the public’s help to identify the individual responsible for vandalizing the dugout and snack shack at the Auburn Suburban Fields on Garfield Road. According to Auburn Police Sgt. Jason Moore, the graffiti was reported Sept. 8, and is believed to have occurred overnight Sept. 4. He said similar markings […]
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Manhunt underway for convicted sex offender, another man in Rangeley and Byron areas
Shawn Batchelder, 36, was convicted of gross sexual assault in May 2012.