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PublishedJuly 30, 2019
Eight from Mexico arrested in human smuggling effort in Aroostook County
Police pulled over a vehicle containing 7 undocumented immigrants who illegally crossed the border into Maine last week, and an eighth man who was paid to drive them to New York, authorities say.
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PublishedFebruary 19, 2019
Massachusetts men to be sentenced for drug killing in Maine
An Oakfield man was shot nine times in October 2016, prosecutors say.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2019
Federal funds awarded for food-production facility in Houlton
The plant will manufacture food for laboratory animals.
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PublishedOctober 30, 2018
Maine tribes are skeptical of federal move to revisit river water standards
The Environmental Protection Agency is reconsidering Obama-era protections on the Penobscot and Meduxnekeag rivers.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2018
U.S. border agents arrest 2 Canadian men after Houlton crossing shut down
Traffic is redirected away from the crossing from Woodstock, New Brunswick, after the men stop their vehicle and refuse to communicate with Canadian officials.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2018
Former Waterville-based guardsman raises money for family group
Brian McCarthy, who served 20 years in the military, pedaled 360 miles to raise money for the organization that provides communications between deployed troops and their families.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2018
Aroostook County man pleads guilty to firearms charges
He admits falsifying paperwork to obtain two AR-15 style rifles for individuals who tried to smuggle them into Canada.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2018
Border Patrol arrests man for illegally crossing into the U.S. from Canada
The man, a Mexican national, had been removed from the U.S. previously in 1994, agents said.
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PublishedJune 21, 2018
At I-95 checkpoint, Border Patrol agents question drivers and passengers about citizenship
Agents based in Houlton arrest a Haitian national and make nine drug seizures during the 11 hours they stopped southbound traffic on the interstate in Penobscot County.
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PublishedMay 4, 2018
State police sergeant wounds man in armed confrontation in Aroostook County
The 20-year veteran is on administrative leave after shooting a Smyrna man whom police sought to arrest Friday at a store in Oakfield.
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