OLD TOWN — A Maine State Police trooper shot and killed a man who reportedly stabbed his girlfriend to death Wednesday night in a downtown apartment. Police identified the couple on Thursday morning as April Haskell, 35, and Christopher Ouellette, 28, both from the Old Town area, according to Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman […]
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Hampton, N.H., death investigated as homicide
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire attorney general says a man found dead at his home in Hampton was killed in a homicide. Authorities say an autopsy has determined that 56-year-old Robert Roderick died of multiple blunt impact injuries to his head. His death has been ruled a homicide. Roderick was found dead around […]
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Mexico men given reduced charges in cocaine dealing case
PARIS — Two Mexico men indicted in April on drug trafficking charges stemming from undercover cocaine sales plead guilty to lesser charges in Oxford County Superior Court Tuesday. Daniel Allen, 55, of Swett Street and Darren Joudrey, 51, of Roxbury Road, were arrested with two other men in January after a yearlong investigation into cocaine trafficking in the Mexico area […]
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Judge: Brewer man charged in prison death will be held without bail — if he’s found
ROCKLAND — A state judge has ordered that when police track down a Brewer area man, who is charged with manslaughter in the 2009 beating death of a Maine State Prison inmate, he be held without bail. The defendant, 34-year-old John E. Thibeault, failed to appear Thursday morning in Knox County Superior Court for a […]
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Maine AG releases list of top consumer complaints
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s attorney general said the top consumer complaint in the state revolves around car sales. That’s according to a list released by Attorney General Janet Mills of the top 10 consumer complaints in the past year. The second-top complaint involved sweepstakes, prize promotions and similar types of scams, followed by complaints about […]
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Maine AG presses FDA on painkillers
AUGUSTA— Attorneys general around the country, including Maine Attorney General Janet Mills, are seeking to make pain relieving pills more difficult to abuse. Mills was among 48 members of the National Association of Attorneys General who signed a letter sent to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration encouraging it to adopt standards requiring manufacturers and […]
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Former AG Schneider lands in governor’s policy, management office
AUGUSTA — Former Maine Attorney General William Schneider will move to the Governor’s Office of Policy and Management as its deputy director, Gov. Paul LePage’s office announced Monday, just hours after Schneider’s two-year term as attorney general came to a close. Schneider will join the newly formed office that is taking over some of the […]
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Maine’s A.G.: Trooper legally justified in shooting Lamoine man
LAMOINE (AP) — Maine’s attorney general says a state police detective who fatally shot an armed man who’d just killed his father and uncle met the legal requirements for use of deadly force. The report released Friday says Detective Randall Keaten quickly opened fire, without time for voice commands, when he encountered the gunman running […]
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Maine Dems, GOP clash over salaries for secretary for state, AG, clerk of House
AUGUSTA — The first conflict between Maine’s new Democratic legislative leaders and the Republican minority involves whether to pay returning Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, Attorney General Janet Mills and Clerk of the House Millicent MacFarland for past service. Republican legislative leaders argue that state law requires their salaries to be set as if they […]
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Top offices in play with new majorities
AUGUSTA — With new Democratic majorities elected to the Legislature, three of Maine’s most prominent offices — treasurer, secretary of state and attorney general — are suddenly in play. The majority party gets to elect the three so-called constitutional officers, who won’t be elected until after the new Legislature is sworn in Dec. 5. But […]