Somerset County News

ST. ALBANS, Maine a ' A Palmyra man was killed Tuesday night when he lost control of his car on Route 23 and it rolled over into a ditch.

A local man was killed and four others, including an infant, were injured in an accident about 11 p.m. Tuesday at the intersection of Route 139 and U.S. Route 2. Killed was Randy Lake, 23, the operator of a 2006 Ford Taurus, who was flown by LifeFlight Air Ambulance from the scene to Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor where he died, according ...

Jun 17, 2009 3:37 pm US/Eastern NORRIDGEWOCK, Maine One man is dead and four other people are injured following a late-night highway crash in Norridgewock involving a motorist with a suspended license.

Maine's highest court heard a case dealing with medical marijuana. Donald Christen appealed his conviction of aggravated marijuana cultivation in Supreme Court Wednesday.

County commissioners on Tuesday approved job descriptions for a detention manager and custodian in anticipation of the county jail becoming a 72-hour detention facility on July 1. The manager position incorporates part of the work done currently by Jail Administrator Sandra Collins.

PORTLAND, Maine a ' The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will hear arguments Wednesday in the first challenge to the statea TMs medical marijuana law.

State Police, the Somerset County Sheriff's Department and Skowhegan Police are looking for two men who held up the Taconnet Federal Credit Union on Route 201 in Skowhegan Wednesday morning.

Selectmen Tuesday night said they wanted to see more of a plan for an addition to the old county jail before approving an easement for Somerset Grist Mill owner Amber Lambke.

Law enforcement officials said an 8-year-old boy was taken into custody in Norridgewock after shooting three students and a school bus driver with a BB gun.

An eight-year-old boy accused of shooting a BB gun on a school bus and injuring three students and a bus driver is being evaluated tonight.

AUGUSTA : The Maine State Credit Union, a state-chartered credit union serving Kennebec and Somerset counties and employees of the state of Maine, has awarded $1,000 scholarships to 20 Maine high school students who will be attending a post-secondary educational institution next year.

The Siberian-born woman who mixed prescription drugs and wine before drinking liquid hand soap and attacking flight attendants didn't just plead guilty Thursday in U.S. District Court.

A Bingham man is being held at Somerset County Jail on $10,000 cash bail, following his arrest on three charges early Saturday morning on Athens Road.

If you take a roguish cat, put it in a box for six months, feed it and keep it clean, it is still a roguish cat when you set it free.

That was the sentiment expressed Wednesday by Amber Lambke of Skowhegan after Somerset County Commissioners unanimously approved the sale of the century-old county jail to Lambke's Somerset Grist Mill LLC.

Franklin County commissioners signed an agreement of understanding Tuesday to have some prisoners housed at Somerset County jail in Madison for at least the next two months.

Commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, John Richardson, announced today that Jobs for Maine's Graduates will be opening four new programs for high school- age youth in Somerset County this fall thanks to a grant from the Office of Community Development.

Nearly every eighth-grader raised their hand Tuesday when asked if they heard hurtful words spoken at school because of race, religion or sexual orientation.

The state fire marshal's office is investigating a suspicious fire at a vacant factory that used to make wood products in the Somerset County town of Solon.

In honor of Somerset County's 200th birthday, the Skowhegan Free Public Library has commissioned a local artist to create a sculpture to honor the town's industrial past.