Androscoggin County News

Jeffrey Tyler, a volunteer firefighter accused of setting a blaze that destroyed two houses, is led to Oxford County Superior Court on Wednesday.

Donald White, left, and his lawyer, Allan Lobozzo, listen to Assistant District Attorney Deborah Cashman make her opening statements to the jury in Androscoggin County Superior Court on Tuesday morning at the start of White's kidnapping trial.

As a health care reform bill inches forward, insurance companies have issued dire warnings about the consequences of the overhaul.

Livermore Falls Dispatch Supervisor Amanda Leclerc tells a firefighter his call is coming in clear Thursday.

LIVERMORE FALLS a ' A Rumford man was arrested early Saturday after he entered a Tucker Road home while occupants were sleeping and sprayed a man with pepper spray and attacked him with a hammer, according to police.

If duct-taping and chokeholds are how Androscoggin County Jail guards treat each other, how do they treat the inmates? Probably better.

A 41-year-old prison social worker is facing charges she tried to smuggle illegal drugs into a prison.

An Androscoggin County jail supervisor is out of a job after being fired for on the job pranks that included duct-taping a worker to a chair and putting another worker in a choke hold.

AUBURN a ' An Androscoggin County Jail supervisor was fired Wednesday for his involvement in on-the-job pranks that included duct-taping a worker to a chair and putting another worker in a choke hold.

AUBURN a ' Androscoggin County commissioners have unveiled their $9.9 million proposed spending package for the coming year, including money targeted for a charter effort, a new communications department and analyses of the aging county building.

TURNER a ' Authorities continued their search Tuesday night for an armed man who robbed a redemption center in North Turner just minutes before the store was set to close.

A 29-year-old Oxford woman has pleaded not guilty to charges she embezzled more than $100,000 from the Lewiston law firm where she once worked.

SABATTUS a ' Residents will decide two contested races in Tuesday's election. Two seats with three-year terms are open on the Board of Selectmen.

Education Commissioner Susan Gendron is proposing an overhaul of the way the state provides special education to students, with an independent report showing those costs increasing at twice the rate of other education spending.

MEXICO a ' Two of nine area people arrested in two separate incidents Sunday and Monday in Mexico remained behind bars early Tuesday evening at Androscoggin County Jail in Auburn.

AUBURN a ' The estate of a woman murdered in 2007 by a fellow worker at a Lewiston call center is suing that company, claiming it failed to recognize her assailant's history of violence, especially against women.

AUBURN a ' A local man is suing the company that fired him because he refused to engage in illegal and dangerous acts, he says.

AUBURN a ' More than a dozen retired Androscoggin County workers, including two surviving spouses, are suing the county over health care benefits.

A Donald White appears in Androscoggin County Superior Court for motions filed in his kidnapping and robbery case.

AUBURN a ' Auburn police are launching a program to introduce young people to the potential of law enforcement as a career.