LEWISTON — Police are investigating after shots were reported fired early Thursday on Walnut Street. Police said one shot passed through a tenement wall and struck a refrigerator inside a home at 21 Walnut St. No one was hurt and no arrests were made as of late Thursday afternoon. It happened shortly after midnight, police […]
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Portland man shot his sister’s boyfriend in the back, forensic experts agree
But the state medical examiner and an expert testifying for the defense in Mark Cardilli Jr.’s murder trial offer different theories about what happened in the final moments of the confrontation in which Cardilli killed Isahak Muse.
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Kingfield snowmobilers arrested on aggravated assault charges
A resident of Trestle Avenue in Kingfield confronted snowmobilers for waking him and his child up early Wednesday.
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Years after going to prison for stealing cars, Warren man is charged with auto theft – again
Police say Robert G. Steiner, who talked about his decades-long record in a 2015 interview, has been arrested in Michigan on charges he stole 2 vehicles from Wiscasset Ford.
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Father of Portland man charged with murder didn’t realize son’s gun was real
‘I thought you were just trying to scare him,’ Mark Cardilli Sr. is heard telling his son on police surveillance footage played in court during the second day of Mark Cardilli Jr.’s trial in the death of Isahak Muse.
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Gardiner man sentenced after 8th OUI, eluding police on an ATV
Robert E. Purington III, 47, was sentenced Tuesday to a total of five years in prison.
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Sister of Portland man charged with murder recounts his racist comments as trial begins
Chelsey Cardilli testifies in the trial of Mark Cardilli Jr., saying her brother told her that Somali people are gang members, black people shot by police are at fault and Muslims are terrorists.
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Woman robbed while making night deposit at Waterville bank
A woman making a deposit at Kennebec Savings Bank on Main Street at 7:48 p.m. Thursday reported being grabbed from behind by a white male who took the money bag and ran, according to Waterville Deputy police Chief Bill Bonney.
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Wilton, Jay men plead guilty to theft charges in Wilton gas station fraud
Six former employees were charged with stealing more than $100,000 from Gould’s Service Station.
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Alfred man charged in connection with domestic violence incident
Maine State Police say Thomas Proia assaulted a woman in a home in Alfred early Tuesday.