BANGOR — Former Sun Journal staff writer Christopher Crosby was named this year’s Bob Drake Young Writer’s Award winner by the Maine Press Association on Saturday. The award is presented each year to a journalist with less than two years of full-time experience in the field, and whose work shows talent and promise. According to […]
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Court upholds Kristina Lowe manslaughter conviction
PORTLAND — The Maine Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday upheld Kristina Lowe’s manslaughter conviction, ruling there was no error in the trial court’s actions or the jury’s verdict. Lowe, 22, is expected to turn herself in Wednesday, Sept. 9, to begin serving an 18-month prison sentence. In January 2012, Lowe, of West Paris, was driving […]
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Lowe, ex-boyfriend in child custody battle
PARIS — An Oxford woman has asked a court to determine parental responsibilities concerning her 2-year-old daughter, even as the clock ticks down on a ruling by Maine’s high court that could result in jail time. Kristina Lowe has asked a magistrate in South Paris District Court to settle a dispute over custody, child support and […]
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Kristina Lowe appeals manslaughter convictions
BANGOR — A defense lawyer has asked the state’s highest court to throw out a manslaughter conviction on the grounds that the deaths of two West Paris teenagers in 2012 did not occur as the result of a crime. James Howaniec told Maine Supreme Court justices Wednesday morning that once jurors acquitted his client, Kristina Lowe, […]
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High court to hear Kristina Lowe appeal in June
Maine’s highest court this summer will hear oral arguments in the case of an Oxford woman who is appealing her 2014 manslaughter conviction in the 2012 deaths of two West Paris teenagers. A clerk with the Maine Supreme Judicial Court confirmed last week that justices have scheduled a June 17 hearing in the case of […]
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Arguments filed with state’s high court on Lowe’s manslaughter appeal
PORTLAND — Legal arguments have been submitted to Maine’s highest court appealing the manslaughter conviction of a woman held responsible for the deaths of two West Paris teenagers. Prosecutors for Oxford County Superior Court and a defense attorney have tendered briefs to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court in the case of Kristina Lowe, a 21-year-old woman […]
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Trial of grief: Parents of teens killed in crash struggle to cope
Sorrow stalks Jerrold Mason’s memories of his daughter. It leaps from the picture frames he’s gathered around the thick, wood table inside his log cabin. It treads across the hardwood floor and crawls up a wall to settle on the first deer she shot, mounted next to his own trophies. Coping with the loss […]
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Defense attorney to appeal Oxford woman’s manslaughter convictions
PARIS — The defense attorney for an Oxford woman sentenced to 18 months in prison for causing the deaths of two West Paris teenagers in 2012 is appealing the case to Maine’s highest court. James Howaniec filed the motion with the Oxford County Superior Court clerk’s office on behalf of his client, Kristina Lowe, on Thursday […]
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Oxford woman sentenced to 18 months in double manslaughter
The sentence was stayed pending appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Defense attorney James Howaniec was unsure whether the defense team would appeal the sentence. “My client has a certain level of relief,” Howaniec said. “An 18-month sentence is something she could survive.” In a packed Oxford County Superior courtroom, friends and family of […]
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Kristina Lowe sentenced to 18 months in prison
UPDATE: Families of the victims react to the 18-month sentence. PARIS —Kristina Lowe was sentenced Wednesday to serve 18 months in prison in connection with the 2012 deaths of Rebecca Mason and Logan Dam. The sentence has been stayed pending appeal to the Maine Supreme Court. In a packed courtroom Wednesday morning, friends and family […]