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Published
April 28, 2023

Waterville man arrested after threat to MaineGeneral’s Thayer Center for Health causes lockdown

Police said Friday that the threat was made by 41-year-old John Picurro, who was the owner of The Last Unicorn restaurant that was destroyed in a fire last weekend.
Published
April 15, 2023

Two youths charged with terrorizing after school threat

Interim Waterville police Chief Bill Bonney said Saturday that the youths will have a court date but will first see a juvenile community corrections officer.
Published
March 16, 2023

Waterville man accused in Colby College gunfire had feuded previously with assailant, police affidavit says

Officials say Andrew Gifford, 24, fired a 9 mm handgun three times in a crowded hallway during a party at the Waterville college after he had been hit in the head with a bottle by a man with whom Gifford had fought years earlier.
Published
February 20, 2023

Pedestrian hit by municipal plow truck in Winslow

The accident occurred when a 32-year-old man attempted to cross Benton Avenue as a public works truck sanding the street was backing up, according to police.
Published
February 18, 2023

Waterville police officer, 2 others injured in crash

Waterville police Officer Mikayla Hodge and two others were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Saturday after a crash on Kennedy Memorial Drive in Waterville.

Published
January 27, 2023

Suspect in Winslow stabbing was retaliating against victim, police say

Justin Boucher, 21, appears to have attacked a 65-year-old man because he believed the older man had assaulted a family member, a Winslow police investigator said Friday.
Published
January 2, 2023

Waterville woman with loaded AR-15 in vehicle taken into custody

The woman, who has mental health issues, led police on a chase throughout the city early Monday before they stopped her on a dead-end road on the Colby College campus and took her into protective custody.
Published
December 31, 2022

Police, school officials investigate racist graffiti painted on Waterville elementary school

Peter Hallen, assistant superintendent of Waterville Public Schools, said it is important to find those responsible for the graffiti, but having the schools and Waterville community address the issue is critical to spreading awareness and effecting change.
Published
December 27, 2022

Bowdoin man summoned after pickup truck hits Waterville apartment building

Police say the Dodge pickup was traveling at high speed Monday night on College Avenue when it left the road, snapped off a utility pole and crashed into the apartment building, causing what the building owner says is tens of thousands of dollars of damage.
Published
December 16, 2022

Eleven years after disappearance of Ayla Reynolds, wrongful death suit, police probe continue

Ayla was reported missing Dec. 17, 2011, by her father, Justin DiPietro, from her grandmother's Violette Avenue home in Waterville, launching the most costly state police investigation in Maine history, and she has never been found.

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