BANGOR — You want to take this outside? New England Fights will settle its differences Friday night in a dramatically different venue than it has employed in its successful, 17-month history. Maine’s mixed martial arts promotion ventures north of Lewiston for the first time and makes its inaugural appearance outdoors in NEF VIII — dubbed […]
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Westbound driver doesn’t hit any other cars in eastbound lanes of I-395
BANGOR — No drivers were injured Wednesday morning after an elderly woman was found driving the wrong way on Interstate 395, police said. State police Trooper Trevor Bean said the initial call came in at 8:12 a.m. that the woman was heading westbound in the eastbound lanes in Brewer. The woman’s age and name were […]
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Auburn man in jail after Bangor bar fight
BANGOR — An Auburn man is behind bars Tuesday after an altercation at the Tavern on Main Street, according to police. Steve Baston, 28, was involved in a fight with another patron shortly before the bar closed at 1 a.m. Tuesday, according to Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards. The fight started when for reasons unknown […]
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Man accused of firing from window held on $100K bail
BANGOR — A Bangor man accused of firing shots from an apartment window, forcing the city’s Fourth of July parade to be rerouted has been ordered held on $100,000 bail. Police say 43-year-old Perrin Oliver sent a woman and child fleeing from his apartment Thursday and then fired about 70 shots during a four-hour standoff […]
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Bangor woman under arrest after shoplifting spree at Marden’s
BREWER — A local woman is facing multiple charges after a shoplifting spree at Marden’s on Saturday, police said. Sherrilyn Kenney, 27, not only left the Brewer department store with $234 worth of unpaid items, but altered price tags on an additional $247 worth of merchandise, Brewer police Capt. Chris Martin said. Kenney had paid […]
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Baseball bat, jealous rage leads to arrest for Bangor man
BANGOR — A Bradford man who found his ex-girlfriend asleep on the couch in her home with another man early Saturday reportedly used a baseball bat to assault him and damage his car, Assistant District Attorney Susan Pope said at the suspect’s first court appearance. Richard Brooks, 19, who has no criminal background, was charged […]
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Bangor police arrest man after girlfriend says she was head-butted
BANGOR — A local man is in jail Monday after allegedly assaulting his girlfriend over the weekend, according to police. Officers arrived at a Griffin Road residence shortly after 11 p.m. Saturday when it was reported that Michael Pyle, 39, and a woman engaged in an argument that quickly escalated, Bangor police Sgt. Paul Edwards […]
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Church marches to honor gay man killed in hate crime 29 years ago
BANGOR — On July 7, 29 years ago, three teenage boys beat 23-year-old Charlie Howard and tossed him to his death from a downtown Bangor bridge because he was gay. About 20 members of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Bangor marched on Sunday from their Park Street church to the place Howard died nearly three […]
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Bangor Fourth of July parade crash victim recalled as giving, humble
HOLDEN — Two of Wallace Fenlason’s favorite things to do were ride his 1941 John Deere farm tractor in area parades and groom local snowmobile trails under the light of the moon. Although starkly different, the two activities help paint a picture of a man whose life revolved around helping others. A man who put […]
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Railway, fire officials say ‘hissing’ from derailed tank car in Bangor is safe, ‘normal venting’
BANGOR — Railway and Bangor Fire Department officials said Saturday that the “hissing” coming from one of the tank cars that derailed a few days ago in Veazie is part of its “normal venting” and is not cause for concern. Bangor fire and rescue crews were dispatched to the tracks behind Penobscot Plaza on Washington […]