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Lewiston-Auburn, News

Lost Valley celebrates earliest opening in 40 years

by Staff Report Sun Journal December 3, 2019December 4, 2019

The mountain will open this Friday, a week earlier than originally planned.

Cops & Courts, Local & State, News

Auburn man seeks dismissal of Alaska murder and rape charges

by Christopher Williams November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

Attorneys for the former Fairbanks university student filed motions in his case Monday.

Cops & Courts, Local & State, News

Border patrol agents arrest 17 men on immigration-related offenses

by Donna M. Perry November 13, 2019November 13, 2019

The arrests were made in Auburn, Turner and Stratton Village in Eustis.

Local & State

Former Gov. Baldacci comes to aid of scammed Auburn woman

by Steve Collins November 8, 2019November 21, 2019

John Baldacci is organizing a fundraising dinner to raise money for 95-year-old Barbara Hinckley, who lost all her savings to a con man last summer.

Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State

Promised $2.5 million and a Mercedes, an Auburn senior wound up losing her life savings

by Steve Collins November 3, 2019January 9, 2020

Barbara Hinckley, 95, lost everything to a sweet-talking scam artist who told her she’d placed second in a sweepstakes for the Publisher’s Clearing House.

Local & State, News, Schools and Education

Auburn students feel targeted by high school’s attempt to address bias

by Rachel Ohm October 31, 2019November 1, 2019

School officials used the intercom to summon some students to a meeting about anti-bias focus groups, which, they say, violated their privacy and made them targets in a school struggling with discrimination.

Cops & Courts, Lewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News

Lewiston man arrested in hit-and-run; pedestrian suffered serious injuries

by Christopher Williams October 31, 2019November 1, 2019

LEWISTON — Police arrested a local man Thursday and charged him in a hit-and-run incident on Lisbon Street early Sunday morning that critically injured a pedestrian. Brad Johnson, 40, was charged with leaving the scene of an accident involving serious bodily injury or death, a Class C felony punishable by up to five years in […]