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Police won't charge Freeport woman who shot neighbor's dog

FREEPORT (AP) — Police in Maine say they will not bring charges against the woman who shot and killed her neighbor’s dog on July Fourth. The Portland Press Herald reported (http://bit.ly/2toT4CB ) Leroy Hart’s 2-year-old French mastiff, Max, was fatally shot after wandering into a neighbor’s yard. Freeport police say they received reports of a […]

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Farmington police believe Wilton woman killed in accident

FARMINGTON — Police tentatively identified a Wilton woman on Saturday as the female who was hit by a vehicle and killed while she walking on Wilton Road early Friday, Police Chief Jack Peck Jr. stated in a release. Police tentatively identified the woman hit by a vehicle on Wilton Road early New Year’s day  as […]

Posted inOxford Hills

Annual Dugmore ride to be held in Paris Sept. 13

PARIS — The 8th Annual Arnold Dugmore Ride/Walk/Run for Multiple Sclerosis will be held in the morning of Sunday, Sept. 13. The event is organized and hosted by Kathy and Dan Deluca, owners of the Smilin’ Moose Tavern in Market Square. The couple’s decision to start the ride for MS was the result of two […]

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Police ID man killed in confrontation in Aroostook County

SMYRNA (AP) — Authorities say a Smyrna man has been shot and killed during an armed confrontation with a state trooper and a deputy sheriff. State police spokesman Steve McCausland says the shooting in Smyrna happened just before 8 p.m. Tuesday in a home on Smyrna Center Road. He identified the deceased man as 61-year-old […]

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Dump truck backs over, kills construction worker

YORK — A construction worker was killed Tuesday morning on the Maine Turnpike when a dump truck backed over him at a job site, according to police. Maine Department of Public Safety spokesman Stephen McCausland said the accident took place around 11:30 a.m. in a southbound lane by the York River Bridge, which had already […]

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Survivor sues man charged in Turner farm shooting

AUBURN — A Connecticut man charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of a worker at the former DeCoster egg farm in Turner is being sued by a survivor of the late worker. Angelina Ortiz Hernandez of Durango, Mexico, is listed as the personal representative of Manuel Medina Adame, who died from a […]

Posted inRiver Valley

Dogs kill, injure animals in Peru

PERU — Two German shepherds were quarantined Thursday after they killed a guineafowl, injured two other birds and attacked two goats, Animal Control Officer Sue Milligan said. According to investigators, neighbor John Gallant’s dogs went onto the property of Steve Fuller and Nathalie Anctil on Stage Coach Road, where the attacks took place Thursday morning. […]