Mark LaFlamme is a Sun Journal reporter and weekly columnist. He's been on the nighttime police beat since 1994, which is just grand because he doesn't like getting out of bed before noon. Mark is the author of eight published novels and rides a dual sport motorcycle everywhere he goes. Unless it's winter, in which case he just sulks a lot.
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2020
Mainers dig out while more snow is expected this weekend
School canceled, businesses closed and car wrecks all over the place. The latest storm was not the biggest we have ever seen, but snow falling most of the day Thursday caused its usual array of problems and left nearly a foot in some areas. The snow began falling overnight and by the supper hour Thursday, […]
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PublishedJanuary 16, 2020
Snowfall totals
Androscoggin County Auburn: 8 inches Lewiston: 5 inches Turner: 5 inches Lisbon: 2 inches Oxford County Otisfield: 8.1 inches Oxford: 4.2 inches Dixfield: 3 inches Franklin County Farmington: 2.5 inches Kingfield 0.5 inches New Sharon: 0.5 inches Cumberland County Raymond: 11 inches Cumberland: 10.8 inches New Gloucester: 9.1 inches Source: National Weather Service
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Suspect in Livermore kidnapping still at large
Shannon Lee Dupree is believed to be with friends in Wilton and Rumford
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Report: Fewer guns found at New England airports
BOSTON — Federal officials on Wednesday said Transportation Security Administration officers across New England stopped 36 handguns at checkpoints in 2019, a decrease from the 45 that were caught in 2018. The 2019 numbers include a Minot woman who was stopped trying to carry a loaded 9 mm handgun through a checkpoint at the Portland […]
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PublishedJanuary 15, 2020
Bald eagle dies after being shot in Peru
A man and his daughter are credited with rescuing the bird, which was taken to a rehab center in Freedom.
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PublishedJanuary 14, 2020
Street talk: Haunted in Madawaska
It was a beautiful summer day and I was lost once again in the great northern woods. I had ridden through a glorious potato field at the edge of St. Agatha, but somehow landed in a deep, dark forest with no sign of civilization in sight. Getting lost on my dirt bike doesn’t bother me much — […]
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2020
Ricky Gervais said WHAT?
Look out below! So, this week I was assigned to cover an Androscoggin County commissioners meeting, a fact that would typically send me into a Ricky Gervais level tantrum that would last all night and into morning. My rage was subdued, somewhat, by the fact that by covering the commissioners, I got to enjoy the […]
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2020
The sounds of sleep: How white — or brown — noise brings peace to the night
Come on, feel the noise: For many people, an acoustic distraction — Tibetan bowls anyone? — is the only way to get a good night’s sleep.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2020
Auburn man battles grizzly bears for Discovery Channel program
Jesse Erickson’s appearance on “Man vs. Bear” premieres at 8 p.m. Saturday on the Discovery Channel.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2020
Buckfield tractor-trailer rolls in Greene; driver OK
The accident occurred on North River Road near Allen Pond Road.
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