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    August 3, 2011

    Major traffic detour Sunday, Monday in Augusta

    AUGUSTA — Mount Vernon Avenue will be closed between Bond Street and Bond Brook Road to all but local traffic beginning at 2 a.m. Sunday. The detour is expected to last “until Monday morning,” according to a news release from the Greater Augusta Utilities District. The utility is in the midst of a sewer reconstruction […]

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    August 2, 2011

    VIDEO: Lightning levels Mount Vernon home

    Fire blamed on lightning ignited a home at 330 Wings Mills Road this morning, leveling it. No one was injured.

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    August 1, 2011

    UPDATE: Police release photos of Manchester robber

    MANCHESTER — Police are investigating a report of a robbery at a U.S. Route 202 store this morning. A young man robbed the Rite Aid Pharmacy in Manchester around 11 a.m., and fled on foot after he demanded oxycodone, Maine State Police spokesman Steve McCausland said. The suspect was given an unspecified quantity of prescription […]

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    July 28, 2011

    Swan indicted in Chelsea corruption probe

    AUGUSTA — A Kennebec County grand jury on Thursday indicted former Chelsea Board of Selectmen Chairman Carole Swan on four criminal charges alleging she solicited kickbacks from a snowplow contractor. A prosecutor says her actions remain under scrutiny. The indictment is the formal start of a criminal case against Swan, 53, and she will be […]

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    July 22, 2011

    Chelsea residents reject settlement deal for ex-clerk

    CHELSEA -- Residents at a special town meeting Thursday said no to a $25,000 settlement for a former town clerk.

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  • Published
    July 15, 2011

    Ex Augusta fire official gets 1 1/2 years for sex offense

    AUGUSTA — A former captain with the Augusta Fire Department was ordered to serve a year and a half in prison as part of his sentence for having sex with a 15-year-old girl at his home in Manchester between April 2007 and April 2008. Robert G. MacMaster, 40, now of Lincoln, was convicted by a […]

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    July 14, 2011

    Judge declares mistrial in Clemens case

    Prosecutors show jurors evidence against the judge's orders in the second day of testimony.

  • Published
    July 11, 2011

    UPDATE: Truck-train collision ‘like someone dropped a bomb’

    Officials say both the truck and the train are on fire.

  • Published
    July 11, 2011

    Downeaster, truck collide in ‘fireball’

    A Downeaster train with 109 passengers aboard slammed into a trash-hauling tractor trailer at 11:05 a.m. today, killing at least one person.<br><br>The driver of the truck died in the collision, said Cliff Cole, a spokesman based in Amtrak's New York office. Some of the train's 109 passengers were injured, but it's not clear how many or how seriously they were hurt, said Steve McCausland from the Maine Department of Public Safety.

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    July 1, 2011

    Firefighter convicted in sex case

    AUGUSTA - A former city fire captain was convicted by a jury Friday of sexual abuse of a minor, stemming from an illicit relationship he had with a teenage girl.