The trial for Roland Flood, 62, accused of the July 2023 murder of an Anson man, was originally expected to start this week in Skowhegan.
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Trial to begin for Madison man charged with murdering former roommate
Roland Flood, 62, is charged with the murder of Mark Trabue, 57, of Anson, who was found with multiple stab wounds in July 2023 at a Madison cemetery.
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Feds successful in taking Cornville home investigated for illegal marijuana grow
A home in Corinna that housed another suspected illegal growing operation was also ordered by a judge to be taken by federal authorities earlier this month.
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Judge grants Texas lawmakers’ unusual effort to pause execution in shaken baby case
A judge has granted a request from Texas lawmakers to delay the execution of a man scheduled to be the first person in the U.S. put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.
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Clinton man arrested after police trace 911 call, search Main Street residence
Iver Cardwell, 43, has a history of domestic violence arrests and has been arrested in Clinton multiple times with violation of condition of release in recent months, police said.
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Fairfield man sentenced to 5 years for assaulting officers at Somerset County Jail
William J. Douglass Jr., 39, pleaded guilty to several charges for the assaults, and to charges that he damaged a communication device from a Somerset County Sheriff’s Office vehicle.
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Madison man to serve year in prison for possessing child pornography
John Wayne Peters, 63, pleaded guilty Tuesday to nine counts of possession of sexually explicit material of a minor younger than 12, and one count of failure to comply with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act.
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Back in court after escape attempt, Fairfield man gets 10-year prison sentence for assault of child
Nicholas Carter, 31, was sentenced to 20 years in prison, with all but 10 years suspended in lieu of probation, after he was convicted earlier this month of aggravated assault.
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6-year-old boy kidnapped in California in 1951 found alive more than 70 years later
An online ancestry test helped locate Luis Armando Albino, who was 6 in 1951 when a woman kidnapped him, flying him to the East Coast where he ended up with a couple who raised him as their own son.
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Somerset County Commissioners OK contract for AI technology that helps write police reports
The AI technology takes audio from body camera recordings and generates a draft template of a police report to be reviewed and edited, which proponents say can free up law enforcement officers to do other police work.