AUGUSTA (AP) — A Biddeford man has been sentenced to five months in jail for driving drunk with his 4-yearold son in the passenger seat. Authorities say 46-year-old Tony Leland pleaded guilty in Kennebec County Superior Court to operating under the influence and endangering the welfare of a child. Leland was pulled over Nov. 2 […]

BAILEYVILLE (AP) — The parents of 3-year-old eastern Maine girl who walked a mile in the middle of the night through freshly fallen snow say God was protecting their daughter. Police say Hope Trott woke up last week and, apparently thinking her mother was at a store buying pizza, put on shoes, threw a jacket […]

PORTLAND ( AP) — A Cumberland County jail guard has been acquitted of charges that he assaulted an inmate. The jury deliberated for about an hour on Wednesday before finding Nicholas Stein not guilty on the misdemeanor charge. Stein was accused of dragging and punching inmate Brian Cote last June. Cote testified Tuesday that he […]

AUGUSTA ( AP) — The operator of an all- terrain vehicle that broke through the ice and sank in the Kennebec River in Gardiner last week is facing charges because the ATV had been reported stolen. Raymond Cray was driving one of two ATVs that sank late at night on Feb. 14. Cray and his […]

BRUNSWICK — Peace-Works will present a program titled “Mexico’s Tarahumara — Running Out of Time” at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Morrell Meeting Room at Curtis Memorial Library, 23 Pleasant St. “High on the plateaus and deep in the canyons of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental live a group of indigenous people as unassimilated as any […]

Jennifer N. Giggey, 40, of 32 Independence Drive, Feb. 17, 12: 03 p. m., charged with shoplifting, on Middle Street. news@timesrecord.com

BATH — Bath police are on the trail of a man who allegedly used someone else’s credit card to buy a television, then left the state. Lt. Stan Cielinski said someone hired a man to provide care and run errands for that person’s mother. The person provided a Walmart credit card to the man to purchase […]

WISCASSET — A man accused of a brutal domestic violence attack on his girlfriend Monday morning will remain in jail on $100,000 cash bail following his initial court appearance Wednesday in Wiscasset District Court. Matthew T. Wycoff, 28, is charged with Class A elevated aggravated assault, which is the highest assault charge possible under Maine law. […]

DURHAM — Police blamed slippery road conditions for a crash in which a pickup truck struck a house Tuesday night on Pinkham Brook Road. The incident, reported at 11:40 p.m. Tuesday, occurred at 82 Pinkham Brook Road, according to Lt. Glenn Holt of the Androscoggin County Sheriff ’s Department. Dillon Peacock of Yarmouth was driving a […]