Augusta police failed to identify themselves until last seconds in 2019 shooting of man

domestic violence

Published
February 9, 2023

Augusta police failed to identify themselves until last seconds in 2019 shooting of man

The Maine Deadly Force Review Panel, created the same year as the Augusta incident, recommends officers identify themselves as police officers loudly when knocking at someone's door.
Published
January 31, 2023

Lewiston High School, Bates College students help launch domestic abuse awareness campaign

Lewiston High School and Bates College students helped launch Finding Our Voices' second annual poster campaign raising awareness of intimate partner violence.
Published
January 18, 2023

Industry man taken into custody after standoff

A man inside a house on Taylor Road is accused of assaulting a woman and shooting a gun, but not at the woman.
Published
November 22, 2022

Safe Voices receives grant for second pet friendly shelter

Safe Voices is set to open their second pet friendly shelter in Farmington with the help of a grant from RedRover. The shelter will be open in early 2023.
Published
November 18, 2022

Norridgewock man sentenced on manslaughter charge for crash that killed Farmington woman

Prosecutors say Joshua Savage, 33, was under the influence of drugs when his vehicle cross the center line in 2020 and struck another car carrying Sally McKinley and her son.
Published
October 26, 2022

Former Kennebec County Sheriff’s deputy indicted on sexual assault, multiple domestic violence charges

Daniel R. Ross, 29, is accused of sexually assaulting, assaulting and threatening a woman. He remains jailed and has been terminated by the county.
Published
October 6, 2022

Police Chief says listen, support, believe

Continue reaching out until you get an answer, get help, Wilton Police Chief Heidi Wilcox urges those in domestic violence situations.
Published
August 8, 2022

Augusta police bring back rape suspect from Oregon

Damien Sanchez, 26, of Roseburg, Oregon, was arrested recently on a warrant related to an alleged assault at an Augusta hotel.
Published
June 28, 2022

Former partners detail abuse by man sought in death of girlfriend in Acadia

Two women who dated Raymond Lester about a decade ago say he was emotionally and physically abusive. They came forward after Lester was charged in the death of his girlfriend, Nicole Mokeme, 35, last week in Acadia.
Published
May 23, 2022

Brothers’ argument over T-shirt led to shooting death of Wells toddler, police say

Police say that Andrew Huber Young, 19, got in a fight with his brother and was kicked out of the family house, only to return hours later with a gun, firing shots that killed Octavia Huber-Young. She would have turned 2 in July.