Androscoggin County News

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.

WALES a ' A Lisbon Falls man was charged with driving under the influence of drugs Friday after police said he crashed his van into the back of a dump truck on Route 132.

Unless you were hiding under a rock last week, you noticed Patrick Dempsey, the television icon, right here in Lewiston-Auburn. His presence, as part of the inaugural Dempsey Challenge bike race and run to support the Dempsey Center for Cancer Hope and Healing at Central Maine Medical Center, drew 3,500 participants and thousands of spectators to ...

AUBURN a ' An Oxford woman was indicted Wednesday, charged with embezzling more than a $100,000 from Berman & Simmons, the Lewiston law firm for which she worked.

LIVERMORE FALLS a ' Selectmen voted 3-1 Monday to buy two pieces of communications equipment from Durham for $1,600 as part of the switch to having the county dispatch local police, fire and ambulance personnel next month.

LEWISTON a ' Despite early concerns about traffic headaches stemming from Sunday's long-awaited Dempsey Challenge, authorities throughout Androscoggin County reported that more than 3,500 cyclists and runners hitting the pavement didn't disrupt life in the Twin Cities.