ALTURAS, Calif. (AP) — Four people were shot to death and two others wounded in a shooting and knife attack Thursday at an American Indian tribal headquarters in California, authorities said. Alturas Police Chief Ken Barnes said 44-year-old Sherie Lash was taken into custody after allegedly opening fire at the Cedarville Rancheria Tribal Office and […]
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Hayden appeals conviction in New Gloucester slayings
AUGUSTA (AP) — A Massachusetts man convicted of fatally shooting the mother of his four children and one of his best friends in Maine in 2011 is appealing to the state’s highest court. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court is scheduled to hear the appeal Wednesday of 32-year-old Joel Hayden of New Bedford, Mass. He was […]
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Ellsworth woman killed on Christmas Day remembered during vigil
ELLSWORTH — A crowd of a few hundred people braved freezing temperatures and gathered at an outdoor candlelight vigil Sunday night to remember an Ellsworth woman who was found slain on Christmas Day and call attention to domestic violence. “The horrible tragedy that took place in this community affected every one of us,” said Rebecca […]
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Maine prosecutors get guilty verdicts without bodies in murder trials
HOULTON — When Assistant Attorney General Andrew Benson entered the courtroom in November to begin prosecuting George Jaime Sr. for murder, he believed he had a solid case, even though he had a big obstacle to surmount. While Benson contended that Jaime had stabbed and beat to death his live-in girlfriend, Starlette Vining, in a […]
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Judge continues hearing despite plea
BANGOR — An emotional David Coon pleaded guilty Thursday at the Penobscot Judicial Center to manslaughter in the May asphyxiation death of his girlfriend, Sherry Clifford, but the judge declined to accept his plea and continued the hearing after Coon denied touching Clifford’s throat. Dr. Mark Flomenbaum, deputy chief medical examiner, determined that Clifford’s death […]
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The killing of Romeo Parent
AUBURN — Nothing about the slaying of Romeo Parent was simple. In early April, police began to hear rumblings that harm may have come to the 20-year-old Lewiston man. For days, they searched, following up leads and questioning potential witnesses. On April 12, a Maine State Police diver descended into the frigid waters of Jug […]
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911 transcript reveals slaying suspect admitted to strangling Husson student
BANGOR — The local man accused of killing a 21-year-old Husson University student called 911 after the woman’s death on Nov. 18 and told the dispatcher he had “lost it” and “strangled my ex-girlfriend,” according to a transcript of the call. “What happened there?” the Bangor dispatcher asks. “Ah … pretty much lost it I […]
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Florida police ID suspect in 1989 slaying of Lewiston woman
DAYTONA BEACH SHORES — A 24-year-old murder case that left a restaurant server beaten to death has been solved by DNA leading investigators to a killer serving time in prison for a separate murder, police said Thursday. “It’s been quite a day for the city of Daytona Beach Shores. I am still in shock,” said […]
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Affidavit: Bangor man told police he bound Husson student with duct tape, strangled her
BANGOR — A 21-year-old Bangor man was indicted Wednesday on one count each of intentional or knowing murder, kidnapping and gross sexual assault by the Penobscot County grand jury in the strangulation death of a Husson University student earlier this month. An arraignment date for Zackery Mailloux has not been set. Mailloux was arrested and […]
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Husson students remember Brooke Locke as ‘always smiling, eager to help’
BANGOR — Brooke Locke gave Julya Spadaccini a tour of Husson University three years ago. Spadaccini, now a third-year student majoring in physical therapy, stayed with Locke for three days because the Southern California girl couldn’t get a flight out due to a blizzard. “If it wasn’t for Brooke and her smile and her telling […]