Overcrowding at the Penobscot County Jail has been chronic.
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About 30 cars involved, multiple injuries in I-95 crash in Carmel
Police say ‘blinding sun’ may have led to the chain-reaction crash, which closed the interstate for more than 3 hours before wreckage was removed from the travel lanes.
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As snowmobile deaths in Maine climb to 7, wardens warn riders to slow down
A Massachusetts man has died from injuries suffered Feb. 22, and a Lee man is killed over the weekend.
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Massachusetts man, 55, critically injured in snowmobile crash
He was riding with a group in Penobscot County when the accident occurred, and the Maine Warden Service says an Auburn woman broke her leg in a crash in Bridgton.
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Somerset County woman killed in highway crash in Carmel
Kathryn Hallett, 66, of Cambridge was a passenger in a truck driven by her husband that skidded out of control in snowy conditions on Interstate 95, Maine State Police say.
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Two suspected meth labs found in Maine, one of them after a death on Indian Island
Penobscot Nation Police discovered a lab Saturday when responding to a report of a death on the island near Old Town; the other lab was found Sunday in Bucksport.
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Former lawmaker convicted of bilking widows
A securities agent and former state legislator has been convicted of defrauding two widows out of more than $3 million in what authorities said was one of the worst cases of elder financial abuse in the state. Robert Kenneth Lindell was convicted by a Penobscot County Superior Court jury last week on 15 counts of […]
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Missing 10-year-old found driving stolen car, hits police cruiser in Penobscot Co.
Police say a 10-year-old Orrington boy who was reported missing Sunday was found when he hit a police cruiser with a car he stole in Penobscot County. The boy was reported missing from Snows Center Road around 7:45 p.m. and investigating deputies from the Penobscot County Sheriff’s Office were told he may be driving a […]
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Police ID woman shot by officer while wielding weapon in Carmel
CARMEL (AP) — Authorities have released the name of the woman shot by a sheriff’s deputy in central Maine after advancing toward the deputy holding what was described as a homemade weapon. A spokesman for the state Attorney General’s office said Monday that Penobscot County Sheriff’s Deputy Kari Kurth shot and wounded 20-year-old Alexis Lannon, […]
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Texas woman pleads guilty in Maine bath salts case
BANGOR (AP) — A Texas woman arrested in what law enforcement officials call one of the biggest bath salts busts in Maine history has pleaded guilty. WABI-TV reported that Elizabeth Fuentes of Houston was sentenced to 2½ years in jail after pleading guilty this week in Penobscot County court to drug trafficking. More serious charges […]