The New Year is all about endings and beginnings and honoring those in your own way. Vodka is a way, but so is a Nerf war. You do you, writes Shopping Siren.
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Brawl erupts in downtown Lewiston
LEWISTON — At least five people were hurt Thursday night in a brawl on Birch Street following a candlelight vigil downtown. Police said the injured suffered mostly bumps, cuts and a possible broken nose in the 8:45 p.m. scrap at Birch and Blake streets. Witnesses reported seeing large groups of people, some of them armed […]
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Police officer rescues woman, 72, from Dixfield house fire
“We did have a little issue with water because the only hydrant on Holt Hill doesn’t have a lot of pressure to it,” Dixfield Fire Chief Scott Dennett said. “But we were able to contain the majority of the fire damage to the attic area.”
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Lewiston police find body of armed man after search in woods
LEWISTON — Police scoured the woods next to the Maine Turnpike on Thursday afternoon after a despondent man ran into the woods there armed with a handgun. More than a dozen officers searched for more than an hour before the 59-year-old man was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot. During the tense hour-and-a-half of searching, […]
Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Spruce Mountain principal TJ Plourde no longer employed in district
Superintendent Todd LeRoy says Thomas Plourde was not fired, only moved as part of a process to reduce the administrative team.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Jay man accused of pointing gun at woman in Walmart parking lot
Andrew Deering was being held on $1,000 cash bail at the Franklin County jail.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Farmington man charged after ex-girlfriend’s SUV rammed several times in Walmart parking lot
Joshua Norton, 39, drove “extremely erratically” throughout the parking lot as he was chasing the victim with his minivan, Farmington police said.
Posted inBusiness
Forget drones. Amazon's Jeff Bezos needs lots of delivery guys
Jeff Bezos captured the world’s imagination when he appeared on CBS’s “60 Minutes” and pledged to fill the skies with package delivery drones. Five years on, Amazon.com Inc.’s chief executive officer is betting on decidedly more terrestrial technology: drivers. As in real people. Tens of thousands of them. High-tailing it through town in gas-slurping vans […]
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Neighbors stunned by Hartford woman’s death
‘Somebody I thought had so much character turned into a monster,’ Armand Rowe of Turner said Friday
Posted inMaine Crime
Boyfriend charged with murder in Hartford woman’s death
The death was reported just after midnight Thursday inside a house on Bear Mountain Road in Hartford.