Dexter News

Jeffrey Cookson, now 49, is asking the court to allow DNA tests to be conducted on evidence he claims would show someone else pulled the trigger in December 1999.

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A junior at Hampden Academy and a freshman at John Bapst Memorial High School were the first-place winners in the Penobscot County Bar Association's annual Law Day essay and poster contest.

Jean Maginnis, executive director of the Maine Center for Creativity, and IDEXX's Cathy Dexter are leading a sold-out workshop as part of the Maine HR Convention running through Friday, May 10, at the Samoset Resort.

This school year, Dexter started its international student program and brought six students from China to Dexter Regional High School.

SAD 46 Board of Directors unanimously approved the 2013-2014 school budget that will be presented to voters next month.

What started as a scary morning in Dexter with reports of a man with a gun has ended with the arrest of a teenager.

A Sangerville teen faces multiple felony charges after allegedly stealing three vehicles and a gun, spurring a brief manhunt early Thursday.

A teenager from the Dover area sent police on a manhunt in Dexter on Thursday. The Piscatiquis County Sheriff's Office believes a 17-year-old male stole three cars on Thursday morning.

A male suspect has been taken into custody following an incident Thursday morning in which a state police tactical team, Dexter police and several other agencies responded to Silver Mills Road.