AUGUSTA — Two days after issuing a statement detailing his concerns about a proposal to require a deposit on tiny liquor bottles, Gov. Paul LePage raised an entirely new rationale for his position Thursday. LePage said the problem with the measure is that it doesn’t address the key problem involved with the fast-growing market for […]
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Jay receives grant for extra OUI patrols
JAY — The Police Department will do extra patrols for impaired drivers from Memorial Day weekend through September. The department received a grant from the 2017 Evidence-Based Impaired Driving High Visibility Enforcement through the Maine Bureau of Highway Safety. The grant is for $2,674.08, Sgt. Russell Adams said. The town will pay officers for their […]
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Massachusetts police charge Bucksport man with 7th OUI offense
GLOUCESTER, Mass. — The Gloucester Police Department says officers charged a Maine man with his seventh drunk driving offense after hitting a pedestrian in a crosswalk Monday. Police and Fire responded to the area outside 4 Raymond St. about 6:30 p.m. for a report of a motor vehicle crash with a pedestrian struck. When rescuers […]
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Man wearing ‘Drunk Lives Matter’ shirt charged with drunken driving
NEWVILLE, Pa. — Police in Pennsylvania say they arrested a man wearing a Drunk Lives Matter shirt for drunken driving. Police say 44-year-old Elwood Gutshall III’s blood-alcohol content was about two and a half times the state’s legal limit for drivers when he was pulled over early March 19 in Newville. He was wearing a green St. […]
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Rangeley man indicted on manslaughter charge in Strong crash
FARMINGTON — A Rangeley man was indicted Wednesday on a manslaughter charge in the fiery crash that killed Rusty Knox, 35, of Wilton last October. Mark Garner, 25, was also indicted on a charge of aggravated operating under the influence. Garner told a Franklin County sheriff’s deputy last year that he’d drunk six beers and […]
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Mexico woman pleads guilty to drunken driving
PARIS — A Mexico woman with two prior convictions for drunken driving was sentenced to 30 days at Oxford County Jail after pleading guilty Wednesday to a third charge. Wanda McAlister, 49, was arrested in October 2015 after she drove too fast while turning from Roxbury Road to Harlow Hill Road and crashed into the […]
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Wilton man identified as Strong crash victim
FARMINGTON — The identity of the man killed in a fiery head-on collision in Strong this week has been identified as Rusty Knox, 35, of Temple Road in Wilton, according to Franklin County Sheriff Scott Nichols Sr. “Mr. Knox was married with four children,” Nichols said in an email. Knox was driving Tuesday night on Lambert […]
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Rangeley man charged with OUI in fatal crash in Strong
UPDATE: Rangeley man tells deputy he drank too much in fatal accident STRONG — A Rangeley driver was drunk and speeding when his truck crossed the centerline on Lambert Hill Road on Tuesday night and struck another truck head-on, killing the driver in a fiery wreck, police said. Mark Garner, 24, of Rangeley was arrested at the […]
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DHHS official pleads not guilty to OUI
FARMINGTON — The attorney for an associate director for the Maine Office of Substance Abuse accused of driving drunk has entered a plea of not guilty on her behalf in a Franklin County court. A Franklin County sheriff’s deputy arrested Joan Smyrski, 62, of Jefferson on Sept. 25 on a misdemeanor count of operating under […]
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Carrabassett Valley official pleads not guilty to driving drunk for 3rd time
FARMINGTON — A former Carrabassett Valley selectman pleaded not guilty Tuesday to driving drunk for the third time. Stephen E. Pierce, 65, was indicted by a Franklin County grand jury Aug. 18 on a felony charge of operating under the influence with two priors, and a misdemeanor charge of operating beyond license condition or restriction. […]