Investigators said the girls had run into the woods near Mountain Valley Community School about 2:15 p.m.
Mark LaFlamme
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Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
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Hiram man recovering from fire that claimed the life of his wife
Cheryl Nee, 65, was killed in the Friday night blaze.
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Posted inCommunity, News
U.K. teen sentenced after walking from Quebec into Maine illegally to work
Ali Mohammed Ali Abdullah told immigration officials he had come to Maine hoping to find work.
Posted inCommunity, Maine, News
Inmate at women’s prison files suit over housing of transgender prisoner
The suit by Katie Mountain claims she faced regular harassment and assault, and was punished by prison staff for complaining.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News, Politics
Feds investigating Maine’s practice of placing transgender inmates in women’s prison
The U.S. Justice Department says it will also investigate the practice in California, citing reports of sexual harassment and assault by transgender inmates in both states.
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Leeds farmer found guilty of murder in 2023 shooting death of Windham man
Prosecutors said Joseph Chute killed Alex Jackson over a debt in May 2023.
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Leeds man on trial for 2023 killing of Windham man whose body was found in barrel
Joseph Chute is accused of shooting 34-year-old Alex Jackson in the back of the head on May 12, 2023.
Posted inMaine, News
Town says George Stanley’s junkyard in Greene will be cleaned up. Eventually.
Stanley, a longtime thorn in Greene’s side, is living elsewhere now, but the town said it will still proceed carefully with plans to address his Route 202 property.
Posted inMaine, News
Lewiston health care provider raided by federal agents
More than a dozen agents were seen Tuesday entering the offices of Bright Future Healthier You at 95 Park St.
Posted inMaine, News
Edgecomb man sentenced in 2024 killing in Turner
Luke Krott, 27, was sentenced for the shooting death of a Virginia man whose body was found stuffed in a barrel in Edgecomb.