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Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Prosecutors say phone records place shooting suspect near site of 2016 killing
The records are a crucial part of the state’s case against Aristotle Stilley; prosecutors have few other pieces of physical evidence directly tying him to the death of 36-year-old David Anderson in 2016.
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Posted inMaine Crime, News
Phillips woman gets time-served for federal gun crime
Prosecutors say Deidra Messer bought a gun for someone else in Farmington while she was using or addicted to illegal drugs.
Posted inNation & World, News
Former assistant principal charged in case of 6-year-old boy who shot teacher
The former administrator at a Virginia elementary school showed a reckless disregard for the lives of Richneck Elementary School students on Jan. 6, 2023, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday.
Posted inBusiness, Kennebec Journal, Local & State
Readfield Community Library holds open house to celebrate renovations
What was once a one-room lending library is converted into a functional two-story library with a piano, a kitchen, a staff office and a meeting room.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Lawmakers pass paramilitary ban, sending bill to Gov. Mills
Gov. Janet Mills has 10 days to decide whether to sign, veto or allow the bill to become law without her signature.
Posted inNation & World
Court rejects Trump’s attempt to delay hush money trial – for 2nd time in 2 days
Judge Juan M. Merchan issued the gag order last month and then expanded it last week after Trump lashed out on social media at the judge’s daughter.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
New EPA rule says 218 U.S. chemical plants must reduce toxic emissions likely to cause cancer
The new regulation will reduce ethylene oxide and chloroprene emissions by nearly 80%, officials say.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Proposed constitutional right to abortion fails in Maine Legislature
The proposal failed to get the necessary two-thirds support in a decisive vote late Tuesday, effectively ending the effort to amend the Maine Constitution.
Posted inHealth
Arizona can enforce 1864 law criminalizing nearly all abortions, court says
It provides no exceptions for rape or incest, but allows abortions if a mother’s life is in danger.