Chris Williams covers courts and daytime crime at the Sun Journal where he has been a staff writer for more than two decades. He reports on local, state and federal courts as well as spot news, crashes, fires and other general mayhem. During his time at the Sun Journal, he has served on Sunday and enterprise staff, covering politics, state government, environmental and health care issues, sometimes tackling investigative stories. When he's not on the beat, Chris enjoys sailing, skiing and restoring his Victorian era home.
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PublishedDecember 10, 2019
Lewiston felon pleads guilty to gun charge
PORTLAND — A Lewiston man pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to being a felon with a gun. Wearing a jail suit and with his ankles shackled at U.S. District Court, Sabree Branch, 27, admitted to the Class C felony, which is punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000. […]
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PublishedDecember 10, 2019
Judge puts Poland man on probation in ‘rare’ drug case
PORTLAND — A Poland man thanked the state trooper Tuesday who arrested him on the Maine Turnpike in January for having 28 grams of fentanyl. Travis Rainer, 48, told a U.S. District Court judge the trooper who pulled him over in Wells for following a truck too closely “saved my life.” Since his arrest on […]
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PublishedDecember 9, 2019
Lewiston man charged in hit-and-run appears in court
A judge denied Brad Johnson’s request to have returned to him his truck police said was evidence in an October hit-and-run.
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PublishedDecember 5, 2019
Lewiston building owner fined for renting to illegal pot grower
PORTLAND — A corporation was ordered to pay a $10,000 fine Thursday in federal court for allowing a tenant to use a Lewiston building to grow marijuana illegally. Matthew Fournier appeared in U.S. District Court as the agent for Willie Mo Entertainment Inc. LLC, which owned a building at 29 Avon St. in Lewiston. According […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2019
Jay man charged in Livermore Falls shooting
Police said Avery Teehan allegedly lured another Jay man to a fistfight, then shot him.
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PublishedNovember 30, 2019
VIDEO: Mikaela Shiffrin speaks after Killington giant slalom race
After finishing in third place in a World Cup race in Killington, Vt., Shiffrin speaks to the media.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2019
Video: Local people giving thanks
A Sun Journal reporter and photographer asked people in Lewiston on Wednesday what they are thankful for and what they have done over the past year to make people thankful for them.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2019
Auburn man seeks dismissal of Alaska murder and rape charges
Attorneys for the former Fairbanks university student filed motions in his case Monday.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2019
Police: Lisbon woman charged with OUI after crashing, fleeing
Jamie Levesque had been previously charged with drunken driving and bail conditions prohibited her from having alcohol.
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PublishedNovember 22, 2019
Lewiston man admits to drug charge from federal Twin Cities pot raid
Richard “Stitch” Daniels was one of more than a dozen Twin Cities area defendants snared in 2018 marijuana raid.
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