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May 22, 2013

North Pond Hermit court hearing delayed for mental health evaluation results

Christopher Knight, 47, the man known as the North Pond Hermit, will not be in Kennebec County Superior Court Wednesday as scheduled, on charges of burglarizing Pine Tree Camp in Rome.

May 22, 2013

Waterville car rental business owner loses use tax appeal

Eagle Rental of Waterville will have to pay use tax on four Cadillac Escalades driven by company owner Dan Bickford and his wife Jane, who is company vice president and treasurer. the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled Tuesday.

May 18, 2013

RSU 4 budget proposal strikes 9 teaching jobs, means higher costs to towns

Nine teaching jobs will be cut if the proposed $17.7 million budget is adopted in Regional School Unit 4 — Litchfield, Sabattus and Wales — and each town will be billed more to support that budget.

May 18, 2013

Understaffed, undersized and under siege: Riverview hospital struggles with safety

Data the Kennebec Journal received through a records request show the total number of injuries reported at Riverview is the highest it's been in three years, though lower than in years before that.

May 18, 2013

Killers' cases illustrate difficulties in granting freedoms to forensic patients

The cases of Robert E. Bowie, formerly of Hebron, and Enoch Petrucelly, formerly of North Haven, shed light on the conditions under which forensic mentally ill patients are granted privileges from Riverview Psychiatric Hospital.

May 15, 2013

OSHA proposes $79,000 fine for Jefferson sawmill in light of safety violations

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration has cited N.C. Hunt Inc. for safety violations following an inspection.

May 15, 2013

New York man pleads guilty to unlawful sexual contact with 2-year-old Monmouth girl

Lester House Good, 36, of Troupsberg, N.Y., pleaded guilty Wednesday to a charge of unlawful sexual contact with a 2-year-old girl in Monmouth in 2009 while he and his family visited relatives there.

May 15, 2013

Augusta woman arrested in Farmingdale Circle K robbery

Cynthia B. Chepke, 56, formerly of West Gardiner and now of Augusta, was charged Tuesday with the armed robbery of a Farmingdale convenience store in January.

May 13, 2013

Litchfield to unveil town plan changes at Wednesday meeting

A public hearing on updates to the Litchfield Comprehensive Plan will be held at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Town Office.

May 12, 2013

New MaineGeneral hospital to save big on utility costs

Utility costs in the new regional hospital in northwest Augusta are expected to be less than half of the current bill.