PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine judge has ordered state officials to release a transcript of a 911 call made by a woman whose husband was killed by a Cumberland County sheriff’s deputy in April. The Portland Press Herald reported (http://bit.ly/1qYbeVU ) that Justice Thomas Warren ordered the state Tuesday to give the transcript to the […]
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Oxford County dispatcher workstations getting a comfort upgrade
PARIS — Emergency dispatchers in Oxford County must be seated in chairs, staring at a monitor up to 12 hours a day. Now those workstations are getting a little more comfortable. Dispatchers’ consoles at the Oxford County Regional Communications Center will be swapped out for more ergonomic models later this summer. The purchase is fully […]
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Franklin County dispatchers move into new center, new 911 system goes live
FARMINGTON — Franklin County dispatchers moved across County Way on Friday morning and into the new Franklin County Regional Communications Center. They have waited to make the move since mid 2013, but delays occurred with getting the new generation of 911 equipment installed. Dispatchers went from about a 230-square-foot work area in the Sheriff’s Department […]
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Police say Poland man’s slaying appears similar to earlier shooting
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Police investigating the shooting death of a Maine man along an interstate highway in Pennsylvania said Tuesday they are scrutinizing a similar shooting that happened eight hours earlier and about 30 miles away. State police said there are similarities between the shooting that took the life of 28-year-old Timothy Davison a few miles […]
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In Guantanamo, CIA developed double agents
WASHINGTON — A few hundred yards from the administrative offices of the Guantanamo Bay prison, hidden behind a ridge covered in thick scrub and cactus, sits a closely held secret. A dirt road winds its way to a clearing where eight small cottages sit in two rows of four. They have long been abandoned. The […]
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Maine court orders release of 911 transcripts from Biddeford shooting
PORTLAND (AP) — The Maine supreme court has ordered law enforcement officials to release transcripts of 911 calls from last year’s fatal shootings of two teenagers in Biddeford. The court unanimously overturned a judge’s decision to ban release of the transcripts from three calls in the case of a 75-year-old man charged in killing two […]
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Injured Maine woman rescued from closed park
BAR HARBOR (AP) — An injured Maine hiker has been rescued from a trail in Acadia National Park, which is closed during the federal government shutdown. A ranger says the 69-year-old Portland woman was hiking along the Flying Mountain when she fell and cut her knee and was unable to walk out. She called 911 […]
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Greene man charged with threatening Sabattus man
AUBURN — State prosecutors filed a civil complaint against a Greene man under the Maine Civil Rights Act after he reportedly threatened to hit a Sabattus man with a baseball bat and called him racial slurs. Keith Clayton Hanning, 77, was charged with criminal threatening, a Class D misdemeanor, punishable by up to 364 days […]
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Auburn disaster exercise set for Wednesday
AUBURN — Local, state and federal agencies, as well as private businesses, will participate in a simulated disaster Wednesday morning at the Auburn-Lewiston Intermodal Transportation Center at the Auburn-Lewiston Municipal Airport. In a release from the City of Auburn, an exercise slated to begin at 8:30 a.m. Wednesday is designed to test the readiness of […]