TOPSHAM — A Sabattus man was shot in a Topsham hunting incident Saturday morning. Joshua Stark, 25, was shot in the hip around 7:30 a.m. while he was walking under a power line on Cathance Road, according to the Maine Warden Service. Stark’s girlfriend, Sasha Leslie, 21, of Sabattus, was walking behind Stark. Wardens said […]
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A priest read a Skowhegan man his last rites, then he started moving
SKOWHEGAN (AP) — The mother of a Maine man who was shot in the head with a pellet gun says he began showing signs of life less than an hour after a priest read him his last rites at the hospital. Lauri Quimby tells the Bangor Daily News a doctor said her 19-year-old son Charles […]
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Man who shot woman in Portland still at large
PORTLAND — A 49-year-old woman who was shot Sunday outside an apartment building in Portland’s Bayside neighborhood is expected to recover, but the man who shot her remained at large Sunday night. A neighbor said the woman was shot in the knee. Portland police spokesman Lt. Robert Martin said the woman and her attacker were […]
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Two pit bulls shot and wounded in Buxton; missing dog found
A pit bull that ran off after it was shot in Buxton was found alive Friday morning. The dog was one of two pit bulls owned by the Lamontagne family that was shot Thursday under unknown circumstances. Both dogs had multiple wounds that appear to be from bullets and are receiving veterinary care, according to […]
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Police seek person who shot and killed Ava, a pregnant goat, at Smiling Hill Farm
Scarborough police are investigating the shooting of a pregnant goat at a local family-owned dairy farm that has welcomed the public onto its property for decades. In a message posted Thursday afternoon on its Facebook page, the police department said someone trespassed onto the property of Smiling Hill Farm and Hillside Lumber last weekend and […]
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Police ID man killed in confrontation in Aroostook County
SMYRNA (AP) — Authorities say a Smyrna man has been shot and killed during an armed confrontation with a state trooper and a deputy sheriff. State police spokesman Steve McCausland says the shooting in Smyrna happened just before 8 p.m. Tuesday in a home on Smyrna Center Road. He identified the deceased man as 61-year-old […]
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Suspect dead after standoff in Mexico
MEXICO — Police late Sunday were on the scene of a standoff at the intersection of Routes 2 and 17. They reportedly had surrounded a man who was suspected of stealing a pickup truck and fired shots earlier Sunday. The standoff near the Circle K convenience store on Route 2 went on for hours. The […]
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Peeper gets a scare when shot at with blank-firing gun
BRUNSWICK — A man told police he was shot at Thursday as he was peering in a window on Brackett Road. Police who investigated the incident said the man was, in fact, shot at — with a gun that fires blanks. The drama began at about 1:30 p.m. Police said the man who was shot at […]
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Waterford man gets 18 months for criminal threatening
PARIS — A Waterford man was sentenced to a year and half in prison after pleading guilty to threatening another man with a loaded handgun outside an apartment building in downtown Norway in September. Cory Colby, 34, pleaded guilty to criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, reckless conduct and illegal possession of a firearm in Oxford […]
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LAX suspect set out to kill multiple TSA officers
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The unemployed motorcycle mechanic suspected in the deadly shooting at the Los Angeles airport set out to kill multiple employees of the Transportation Security Administration and hoped the attack would “instill fear in their traitorous minds,” authorities said Saturday. Paul Ciancia was so determined to take lives that, after shooting a […]