AUBURN — Brian Morin will serve five years for setting a fire that burned two Lewiston apartment buildings and damaged a third last year. Androscoggin County Superior Court Justice MaryGay Kennedy sentenced Morin on Wednesday to a total of 25 years in prison with all but five years suspended. Prosecutors were seeking to have Morin serve seven […]
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Judge finds Lewiston woman not criminally responsible for fire
AUBURN — A judge found a Lewiston woman who set her mattress on fire last year not criminally responsible by reason of insanity on Tuesday. Misty Cornell, 45, was committed to Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta under the care of the commissioner of the Department of Health and Human Services. Cornell will be evaluated every […]
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Investigator: Ellsworth bird sanctuary fire was arson
ELLSWORTH (AP) — The district attorney is reviewing the results of a state fire marshal investigation into an arson fire last March at Birdsacre, a nonprofit bird sanctuary in Ellsworth. Sgt. Tim York told WNSX-FM that the fire at the Stanwood Homestead Museum was intentionally set. The interior of the building is still in a […]
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Augusta apartment fire that injured one ruled arson
AUGUSTA (AP) — Investigators say a blaze at an Augusta apartment building appears to have been intentionally set. The two-alarm fire at the five-unit Cedar Court building was reported at about 5:45 a.m. Tuesday. A tenant of a second-floor apartment, 59-year-old David Malia, was taken to the hospital in critical condition suffering from smoke inhalation. […]
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R. Lacombe: Nightmare for Lewiston
The citizens of Lewiston are facing a serious and problematic situation — arson. The fires that have struck Lewiston during the past two years have become a nightmare for residents and some are contemplating moving to a safer environment. Let us not forget the tremendous efforts by Lewiston firefighters and what they have done controlling […]
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Lisbon homeowner charged with arson
LISBON — A Houston Street homeowner has been charged with setting his house on fire Sunday morning. Michael D. Hersom, 41, of Lisbon was charged with arson after his home was heavily damaged by fire Sunday morning, according to a news release from Steve McCausland, spokesman for the State Fire Marshal’s office. According to the […]
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Fire investigators seek information on Rangeley arson
RANGELEY — State fire investigators are looking for any information people may have pertaining to an intentionally set fire at a two-story log house on Furbish Road on Jan. 16, state fire investigator Sgt. Joel Davis said Monday. The house and contents were destroyed in the fire. The fire began in the basement and was […]
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Police investigating Paris fire as an arson
PARIS — Police are investigating a fire started in an abandoned building on Oxford Street on Tuesday afternoon as an arson and have a suspect in custody, according to Paris police Sgt. Jeff Lange. Firefighters from Paris and neighboring towns were called to a derelict single-story building near Kilgore Road shortly after 4 p.m. for a […]
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Prosecutors dismiss arson charges against teenager
LEWISTON — The Androscoggin County District Attorney’s Office on Tuesday dismissed three arson charges against a 13-year-old boy charged with setting a fire last spring that destroyed three downtown apartment buildings. A judge threw out last fall’s confession by then-12-year-old Brody Covey made during a May interview with police as well as a second confession captured by […]
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Mexico man arrested in connection with 2012 fire at USM
MEXICO — A local man was charged Monday with setting a fire in a dormitory at the University of Southern Maine’s Gorham campus while a student there in 2012, Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said in a press release Tuesday. The State Fire Marshal’s Office arrested Thomas “TJ” Williams, 23, at his […]