3 men arraigned in fatal beating

PORTLAND (AP) – Three young men were arraigned Friday on manslaughter charges stemming from the fatal beating of a Westbrook man outside a tavern.

Wade DePalma, 19, and Nicholas Lavigne, 19, both of Westbrook, and Alexander Layug, 18, of Portland, entered no pleas during their appearance in Cumberland County Superior Court.

Police said the three men beat Douglas Wilcox, 33, on July 3. Wilcox declined to cooperate with investigators and left the Maine Medical Center against doctors’ recommendations. He died from his injuries four days after the attack.

Family members say Wilcox’s jaw, eye socket and cheekbone were broken and his skull was fractured in the confrontation.

Man crushed during car repair

EAGLE LAKE (AP) – A 52-year-old man was killed while trying to stop a vehicle that began rolling while he was working on it, authorities said.

Rolly “Tony” Saucier was working on his Jeep Wrangler in his brother’s driveway when it started rolling away Wednesday afternoon. Investigators believe he tried to climb in through the passenger door and ended up getting pinned between the door and a tree.

Investigators believe the accident happened about 3:30 p.m. while Lisa and her husband, Bobby Saucier, where inside their home. The first trooper on the scene after Lisa found him at 3:55 p.m. was another brother, Tim Saucier.

Teen charged in Bingham death

BINGHAM (AP) – A 19-year-old man was charged Friday with manslaughter in the death of a 48-year-old man outside a Bingham bar last weekend.

Maine State Police arrested Dusty Pinkham in the death of Blaine Beane, who also lived in Bingham.

Beane and Pinkham had an altercation outside the Moose Alley Inn at about 11 p.m. Sunday. Beane died in an ambulance while being taken to a hospital in Skowhegan.

The medical examiner’s office has classified the death as a homicide, saying Beane died from blunt head injuries, said Department of Public Safety spokesman Steve McCausland

Pinkham was indicted for manslaughter by the Somerset County Grand Jury.