Rumford News

Veterans salute as Taps is played by Erich Zurhorst of the Mountain Valley High School band during Monday's Memorial Day ceremony.

Oxford County jail log

The following is the Closed Case Report from Maine District Court in Oxford County from April 1 to April 30.

Two men were charged with aggravated drug trafficking Friday night on Route 26 after they were pulled over for a seat belt enforcement detail.

Members of Napoleon Ouellette Post 24 American Legion will observe Memorial Day with a parade and ceremonies at the Rotary Memorial Green in Rumford and at the Memorial Green in Mexico on Monday.

Master playing card manipulator Jeff McBride of Las Vegas displays his card-throwing technique early Friday evening in Rumford's Abbott's Mills Cemetery beside the tombstone of Rumford magician Dr.

Arva Quance is seen here during her first years as a member of the United States Air Force.

Troop 580 Boy Scout Richard Masterson is looking for some financial assistance from the community as he working to put together a small playground for youngsters in the Mexico Recreation Park.

Lewiston: Sale and use are generally prohibited, though use is allowed in the city's firearms discharge zone on New Year's Eve, New Year's Day and July 4. Rumford: Residents will vote June 12 on a proposal to allow the use of fireworks and the regulated sale of fireworks.

A Rumford woman was found guilty of defrauding Maine and the U.S. government of more than $10,000 in food stamps, TANF and MaineCare benefits on Wednesday.

State investigators say Amy L. Knowlton, 30, unlawfully took more than $10,000 in food stamps, MaineCare and TANF benefits by failing to report her husband's earnings as a fisherman off the coast of Alaska, which in some years exceeded $100,000. Knowlton's attorney, Peter Rodway, said his client told case workers more than once that her ... (more)

I left my house in Portland Friday at the crack of noon after packing and tying up some loose ends with work.

A lone casket in the middle of the lighted stage, the dark auditorium filled with classmates, family, friends, emergency response personnel and many local dignitaries.

On April 30, fire chiefs Gary Wentzell of Mexico and Bob Chase of Rumford flew to Alabama to look at a 2008 Pierce quint fire truck -- an apparatus that serves the dual purpose of an engine and a ladder truck .

A Rumford woman charged with defrauding the state of more than $10,000 in social service benefits will stand trial next week.

A Rumford man awaiting trial in Paris on drug trafficking charges pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new felony drug trafficking charge in Oxford County Superior Court.

Members of Napoleon Ouellette Post 24 American Legion will observe Memorial Day with a parade and ceremonies at the Rotary Memorial Green in Rumford and at the Memorial Green in Mexico on May 28.

A young Rumford man accused of stealing two bottles of rum on Wednesday from Hannaford in two incidents 90 minutes apart, remained in a Paris jail Thursday.

Maine's attorney general says a game warden was justified in using deadly force in a shooting last November that killed a part-time police officer.

The Grim Reaper taps Mountain Valley High School senior Stephanie Garcia during the high school's Every 15 Minutes event which aims to dramatize that every 15 minutes someone is killed in an alcohol-related accident.