Farmington firefighters Corey Mills, left, and Stan Wilcox check the Fire Rescue Department’s Tower 3 truck at the fire station Wednesday. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal) Farmington firefighters Corey Mills, left, and Stan Wilcox check the Fire Rescue Department’s Tower 3 truck at the fire station Wednesday. (Donna M. Perry/Sun Journal) Firefighters Corey Mills, left, and […]
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Vienna man arrested after check stolen from Wilton post office box
WILTON — Police said a Vienna man took a check for $606 from a friend’s Wilton post office box and cashed it. Tristan Ridlon, 29, was arrested on a charge of felony theft Thursday by Wilton police Lt. Chad Abbott. The victim apparently gave Ridlon a key to the box, police Chief Heidi Wilcox said […]
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Man accused of using fake check to buy lawn mower in New Sharon
NEW SHARON — A Waterville man is accused of giving a fraudulent check to a local man to buy a riding lawn mower and then painting it “John Deere green” and adding stickers to disguise it, Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. said Monday. Troy Eafrati, 31, was issued a summons Friday on misdemeanor charges […]
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Vassalboro man sues over deceased friend’s check
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Vassalboro man has filed suit after a check for $100,000 he received from a former University of Maine professor days before his death was canceled by the professor’s personal representative. According to the suit filed in Kennebec County Superior Court, Daniel Toto Jr. received the check from John Nickerson on May […]
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Lawmakers still get a check, even in shutdown mode
WASHINGTON (AP) — There’s at least one constant in a government shutdown: The 532 members of Congress continue to be paid — at a cost of $10,583.85 per hour to taxpayers. Lawmakers get their pay even as hundreds of congressional staffers are sent home, packs of tourists are turned away at the Capitol, and constituent […]