Franklin County News

FARMINGTON a ' A hearing to request the transfer of ownership of about 40 animals seized from a home in New Sharon last month began Friday in Franklin County Superior Court.

Although opponents of Maine's school consolidation law failed to make their case to the voters earlier this month, members of the Legislature's Education Committee hope they can make some changes in the law to accommodate the critics.

FARMINGTON a ' The Franklin County Democrats will meet at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 22, at the University of Maine at Farmington Student Center to talk with gubernatorial candidate Steve Rowe, Maine's attorney general from 2001 to 2009.

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

JAY a ' A Jay man is being held on $25,000 cash bail after police say he assaulted a woman at his home and threatened her with a handgun late Tuesday afternoon.

MEXICO a ' Two women at the heart of an assault case in Mexico opened up Monday night about the seven-month feud that came to a head Friday night with one of them in the hospital and the other charged with elevated aggravated assault.

According to data from the Maine Real Estate Information System Inc., the number of homes sold in Knox County from July 1 through Sept.

A logger was brought out of the woods off Route 4 in Farmington in the back of a neighbor's pickup truck Thursday after a tree he cut fell on his leg.

FARMINGTON a ' A response to a public records request by a business is expected from the county's attorney before Thursday, the date the business gave for some contact or a response or it will make an appeal to the Maine Superior Court.

Submitted by Al Diamon on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 11:20am. Sore losers : The Maine Press Association gave out its annual awards last weekend at its fall meeting, but don't expect to learn much about who won by reading most of state's daily newspapers.

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.

Franklin County Sheriff's deputies are looking for the people who stole five cars overnight from Farmington and Temple, then lead police on two high speed chases.

SUN JOURNAL Donna M. Perry, Staff Writer FARMINGTON - Police say a 65-year-old New Sharon woman assaulted a state trooper with a 975,000-volt stun gun during an investigation into possible animal hoarding at her house on Lane Road.

Police say a 65-year-old New Sharon woman assaulted a state trooper with a 975,000-volt stun gun during an investigation into possible animal hoarding at her house.

FARMINGTON a ' A judge ordered an Auburn man Thursday be held on $300 cash bail or a Maine pretrial service agreement on charges of sexually assaulting a child.

RUMFORD a ' An Andover man remained behind bars early Thursday evening in Paris and a Jay man was free on bail after police accused both of participating in a home invasion in Rumford that sent one tenant to the hospital.

Power generation from winds blowing across Maine will increase Friday when Gov. John Baldacci helps to start up the first half of the Kibby Mountain wind power project in the state's western mountains.

A man from Biddeford charged with possessing child pornography will enter a plea in Franklin County Superior Court Wednesday.

A Cumberland County electronic document company plans to expand its land records Web site to include all county registry of deeds information and is prepared to go to court to obtain the data.

NEW SHARON a ' Two New Sharon residents were arrested Friday on marijuana charges after Maine Drug Enforcement Agency received a tip.