Covering killings is like putting bloody puzzle pieces together. In the early hours, we’re still limited to ‘victims’ and ‘perps’ and all the other generic terminology from the grim vernacular.
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.
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Talk of the Town: Can’t get enough of your cheeseburger, baby
More on my deep basso voice In response to an item from last week, more readers announced that they, too, were surprised that my voice was rather deep — I’m practically Barry White over here — and not all high like Pee-wee Herman’s. This is a marvel to me. My main concern is my writer’s […]
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Amy Sanchez: Making masks and doing good deeds
The volunteer shelter worker made and delivered roughly 2,000 face coverings throughout Lewiston-Auburn.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, Maine Crime
Suspect charged with murder in stabbing of Turner couple
Patrick J. Maher, who rented a room from Troy and Dulsie Varney, was in custody Friday.
Posted inFranklin
Farmington nursing home reports 29 cases of COVID-19
According to reports from the facility management, 19 residents and 10 staff have tested positive for the virus.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme
Street Talk: ‘Timmy’s adventures in school-skipping’
I feel sympathy for kids these days, whose lives have been so disrupted, and their realities so warped, that to skip school, all they are required to do is close their laptop lids and go sit in the living room.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn
Mold, a blackened cell, water buckets and tales of headless skeletons: A tour of the 165-year-old Androscoggin County Courthouse
While the ghastly remains of a cell where a jail inmate may have burned alive is disturbing, it’s not the most troubling thing you’ll see on a tour of the quaint, but decrepit old building.
Posted inbPlus, Lewiston-Auburn
Face Time: Chris L’Hommedieu — the man behind ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’
L/A Community Little Theatre’s ‘Love Songs and Love Letters’ will be available for viewing at 7 p.m. on Feb. 12, 13 and 14. The shows can be accessed through the L/A Community Little Theatre webpage at laclt.com
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
Talk of the Town: My deep basso voice
Dollars and sense Oh, this is rich. Ever since I wrote a story about some local folks who received their stimulus checks in unsealed envelopes, I’ve been getting emails from people who want MY advice about their own financials. How should they go about inquiring about the status of their checks? How should they proceed […]
Posted inOxford Hills
Suspect in Oxford standoff remains in jail on $35,000 bail
Brian Cabral, 42, appeared in court Friday on charges of creating a police standoff, violating conditions of release, unlawful trafficking in scheduled drugs and domestic violence terrorizing.