A family of three escaped the burning mobile home after a smoke detector alerted them that a bedroom was ablaze.
Mark LaFlamme
Staff Writer
Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
Posted inNews, Oxford Hills
Three-story home in Paris goes up in flames
Multiple fire departments respond to scene on Western Avenue.
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Green pants. ‘The Blob.’ The basement sump pump. A look into the shadows behind your childhood fears
On this All Hallows Eve, readers tell us about the everyday things and truly scary visions that haunted their childhoods.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Ode to a toothache
Street Talk: The pain of a bad tooth is immense. Extraordinary. When it comes for real — this screaming banshee of agony — you, the sufferer, will have moments where you are rendered clinically insane.
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
Haunted laundry and other horrors descend upon Maine
Talk of the Town: Put down the pumpkins and no one gets hurt.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State
‘Nightmare scenarios’ Emergency medical responders contend with vaccine mandates
Emergency medical providers say vaccine mandates have made a bad situation worse and some are reaching the breaking point.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Lewiston chase suspect held on $5,000 cash bail
Alexander Madore, 33, of Lewiston, appeared in court Friday on a slew of charges.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News
Man charged with stealing car and eluding police after Lewiston chase
Alexander Madore, 33, was taken into custody on Ash Street about a block from where the car crashed.
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
How do you unfriend the real world?
Talk of the Town: Monday was a glorious day. Facebook and a whole bunch of similar social media apps were down pretty much around the clock. Did you notice the weird peace and civility that descended?
Posted inOxford Hills
Emergency crews respond to rollover wreck in Paris
PARIS — Police, fire and rescue crews were on Paris Hill Road on Thursday afternoon after a rollover crash reportedly trapped at least two people inside a vehicle. Just before 5 p.m., rescuers were sent to the area of 843 Paris Hill Road, near the Dew Drop Inn, for a report that a vehicle had […]