LEWISTON — A man shot multiple times by police in Kennedy Park on Friday told police from his hospital bed that he had hoped they would “send him to his maker,” according to an affidavit filed in Androscoggin County Superior Court. Albert Crowley, 20, has been charged with three counts of criminal threatening with a […]
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‘There are other steps they could have taken’: Family members of man killed during police standoff react
CHESTER — Ohio relatives of the man killed Saturday during a police standoff in the woods off Route 116 had more questions Sunday than answers about what led to his death. Maine State Police identified the man in a press release Sunday morning as Shad Gerken, 34, of Woodville. Gerken’s mother, Tawnie Gerken of Englewood, […]
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Trooper shoots armed woman, man found shot
WATERBURY, Vt. — A woman who ignored repeated commands to drop a large caliber handgun was shot by a state trooper in Bristol after officers were called to a home over a suicide threat, the head of the state police said Friday. Tina LaBossiere, of Crown Point, New York, was hit by one shot in […]
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Man suspected in Canadian police killings spotted 3 times, but eludes capture
MONCTON, New Brunswick — Royal Canadian Mounted Police combed the streets and woods of this normally tranquil city Thursday in search of a man suspected of killing three officers in the deadliest attack on their ranks in nearly a decade. The suspect, 24-year-old Justin Bourque, was armed with high-powered long firearms. He was spotted three […]