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Share + Jul 9, 2009 6:46 am US/Eastern ALFRED, Maine The lawyer for a Biddeford, Maine man charged with fatally shooting two brothers says he could have been defending himself.

Share + Jul 9, 2009 9:29 am US/Eastern ALFRED, Maine A 27-year-old Texas man who shot his girlfriend and left her on the side of a southern Maine road has been sentenced to 29 years in prison.

A bail hearing is scheduled for Wednesday morning for a Biddeford man accused of shooting and killing two brothers on June 30.

A man who shot his girlfriend is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday afternoon in York County Superior Court in Alfred.

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ALFRED, Maine a ' A 26-year-old Bangor man who allegedly led police on a wild high-speed chase through three states in April has been indicted on five charges.

ALFRED : Sanford has filed a lawsuit against the state to get in line first for money to construct a combined high school, vocational and post-secondary school -- a line that the local Many Flags project hopes to lead.

ALFRED, Maine a ' A Wells woman will remain in jail while awaiting trial on charges that she killed her husband by dousing him with gasoline and setting him on fire while he slept.

The lives of Maine people and the socioeconomic history of our state have always been intertwined with the fate of Maine's rivers.

Claffey/Democrat photo Jason Brooks, left, sits with his lawyer moments before he pleaded guilty to leaving the scene of a fatality in a hit-and-run crash that killed a Berwick, Maine, woman last year.

Irene F. McDonnell Fuller, 92, of Eliot, died Saturday, May 23, 2009, at her home in Eliot.

Jason Brooks, left, the Saco man involved in a hit-and-run crash last year that killed Berwick resident Deborah Archer, is expected to plead guilty to leaving the scene of a fatal accident Tuesday in York County Superior Court in Alfred, Maine.

Students who graduated Saturday from the University of Maine at Machias campus were advised to take risks, to take advantage of opportunities that come their way, and to occasionally take the road more graveled.

The house for all seasons. May 14, 2009 6:00 AM The Mousam House, a hotel that stood on Tavern Hill just west of the Mousam River, was opened by Major William Jefferds as Jefferds Tavern in 1791.

Claffey/Democrat photo Gordon Brooks, left, is the father of Jason Brooks, who last year was involved in a hit-and-run crash that killed Deborah Archer, of Berwick, Maine.

The federal government has awarded $5 million in disaster aid to help monitor and predict algae blooms that disrupt New England's shellfish industry.

Lewiston Paul Myrand, 44, of 203 Pine St. on a charge of domestic violence assault, midnight Tuesday at that address.

A Standish man convicted on a string of charges for attacking a couple with a baseball bat and pepper spray in their home in Buxton is headed to prison for four years.

Area firefighters had to deal with three back-to-back fires, including a windswept blaze that began on a couch and destroyed a mobile home at 8 Hemlock St.