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Published
February 20, 2019

Alfred Rep. Sampson: Mandatory cursive lessons will help Maine students become better writers, readers, thinkers

The benefits include improved memory and fine motor skills as well as better coordination.
Published
January 29, 2019

Sanford man awaiting trial in kidnapping is accused of selling prison contraband

Dylan Austin is being held at the York County Jail on kidnapping, terrorizing and assault charges stemming from a 2018 incident in which another Sanford man was stabbed and beaten with a pipe.
Published
January 7, 2019

Waterboro man to serve 54 months of 13-year sentence for stabbing

Vincent Cole, 27, pleaded guilty to seven charges stemming from four different incidents that included the July 2017 stabbing.
Published
January 4, 2019

Sentencing date set for ex-priest convicted of sexually abusing altar boy in Maine

Ronald Paquin, 76, who was convicted in November on 11 of 24 counts of gross sexual misconduct, is scheduled to be sentenced on March 5.
Published
December 10, 2018

Acton woman asks to withdraw guilty plea in fatal stabbing of ex-husband

Kandee Collind pleaded guilty to murder in August but now says she was not thinking clearly when she did so.
Published
November 29, 2018

Former Boston priest faces return to prison for sexually abusing boy in Maine

York County jurors convict Ronald Paquin on 11 of 24 counts after two men testified that he brought them to a Kennebunkport campground when they were boys in the 1980s and repeatedly assaulted them.
Published
November 27, 2018

Second accuser testifies his Boston-area parish priest abused him for years in Maine

Keith Townsend, now 44, says Ronald Paquin plied him with alcohol and assaulted him repeatedly during trips to a Kennebunkport campground in the 1980s.
Published
November 9, 2018

Staffing shortage leads York County Jail to move some inmates to Cumberland County

The transfer of at least 30 inmates, aimed at giving officers a break, is expected to last four months.
Published
November 9, 2018

Woman charged with killing man after driving on ball field pleads not guilty, not criminally responsible

Carol Sharrow of Sanford has been receiving treatment at the Riverview Psychiatric Center in Augusta.
Published
October 15, 2018

York County Sheriff’s Office partners with recovery group on opioid treatment for inmates

The federally funded pilot program, which will treat up to 10 people, is part of a broader effort to pair prisoners with medication assisted treatment, such as Suboxone.