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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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  • Published
    February 28, 2023

    Mark LaFlamme: Lost ladies find their way home

    Street Talk: Maybe someone will write a folk song about Maine’s lost ladies. Someone should. 

  • Published
    February 27, 2023

    Sumner man arrested after police standoff

    Dean Hall was taken into custody at about 8 p.m., roughly eleven hours after police were called for a man reported to be throwing debris in the roadway.

  • Published
    February 26, 2023

    Mark LaFlamme: Menacing mollusks and mermaids in the muck

    Talk of the Town goes where no unicorn, cat lady or canal mermaid have gone before. So clam down!

  • Published
    February 24, 2023

    Deaths of Lewiston teen and Massachusetts man declared double homicide

    Lewiston School superintendent calls Mohamed Aden a “beloved member of our community.” No arrests have been made.

  • Published
    February 24, 2023

    Androscoggin County arrest logs: Feb. 17-23, 2023

    Lewiston • Scott Currie, 56, of 247 Bates St., on a warrant charging unpaid fines and fees, at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, at 15 High St. • Uriel Pena, 25, of 39 James St., Auburn, on charges of driving while intoxicated and driving without a license, at 3 a.m. Friday, Feb. 17, on Main […]

  • Published
    February 23, 2023

    Latest storm underwhelms; another rolling in

    Forecasters had originally predicted up to a foot of snow in some areas between Wednesday night and the early part of Thursday. High winds were also in the forecast, although they never developed.

  • Published
    February 22, 2023

    Connecticut man dies in snowmobile crash on Rangeley Lake

    RANGELEY — The body of a Connecticut man killed in a snowmobile crash on Rangeley Lake over the weekend was recovered Wednesday by the Maine Warden Service. Officials said they recovered the body of Stephen J. Rogers, 43, of Milford, about 142 feet into the woods from the shore in Russell Cove. It was believed […]

  • Published
    February 22, 2023

    Jay paper mill closing earlier than expected

    Employees at Pixelle Androscoggin Mill were told Wednesday morning that doors would be closing as early as March 6 rather than later in the spring as previously announced.

  • Published
    February 21, 2023

    Mark LaFlamme: 21 years of blither

    Street Talk: It’s downright strange to me that a person sitting next to me, drinking legally at a bar, could have been born the year I started writing Street Talk.

  • Published
    February 19, 2023

    Mark LaFlamme: On UFOs, wilted roses and subterranean cannibal spiders

    Lewiston relining 7 miles of sewer lines Welp, I hope these sewer workers have their affairs in order because we all know how this kind of thing goes in the movies. Once they’re down in those dank, pitch-black Hell portals they’re going to encounter a nest of man-eating spiders the size of pianos, a shuffling […]

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