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Saco Husband Finally Gets The Last Word

Aubuchon Connery — Sun, 19 May 2013 09:32:40 +0000

SACO — A man who was recently separated from his wife caused a 4½-hour standoff with police that ended Saturday night when he apparently set their house on fire and died inside, police said. Deputy Police Chief Jeffrey Holland identified the man as Charles Scontras, who was born in 1955 and had previously run a shoe repair shop on Main Street in Saco. The incident began shortly before 2 p.m. when Scontras’ estranged wife went to the couple’s house at 16 Hillview Ave. to retrieve some belongings, Holland said. She was escorted by a police officer. Holland said the couple had been having problems and had recently separated. When the officer saw smoke coming from the house, he took the wife to a neighbor’s house, Holland said. Then the officer heard “at least one” shot fired, and the Maine State Police tactical team was called in, Holland said. More than a dozen state troopers surrounded the house. Holland said police had intermittent contact with Scontras, but that ended at 3:15 p.m. (read more at Kennebec Journal)

Three Women, Freed After Being Held As Sex Slaves For A Decade In A Basement In Cleveland, Are Immediately Fined For Not Having Health Insurance

Aubuchon Connery — Wed, 08 May 2013 09:34:13 +0000

CLEVELAND — Three women who went missing separately about a decade ago, when they were in their teens or early 20s, had been tied up but were found alive Monday in a residential area just south of downtown, and three brothers were arrested, police said. One of the women told a 911 dispatcher the person who had taken her was gone, and she pleaded for police officers to come and get her, saying, “I’m free now.” Cheering crowds gathered Monday night on the street near the home where police said Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight had been held since they went missing and were found earlier in the day. Police didn’t immediately provide any details of how the women were found but said they appeared to be in good health and had been taken to a hospital to be reunited with relatives and to be evaluated. They said a 6-year-old also was found in the home. (read more at Lewiston Sun Journal)

BUT. I. LOVE. HIM. SO. MUCH.

Aubuchon Connery — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:00:47 +0000

LIBERTY, Maine — A woman was taken to jail Sunday after she allegedly used a knife to threaten her boyfriend after she found a message on his phone she didn’t like, according to police. Shelly-Ann Salisbury, 35, of Liberty denied threatening him with the knife, according to Lt. Jason Trundy of the Waldo County Sheriff’s Office. “She did admit to tearing the phone out of the wall when he tried to call police,” Trundy said Wednesday. The man told officers that Salisbury had a knife in one hand and was assaulting him with the other hand, and marks on his face were consistent with his story, Trundy said. (read more at Bangor Daily News)

April Is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. If You’re Unaware You’re Being Sexually Assaulted, Maybe You Should Lose Some Weight

Aubuchon Connery — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 09:43:06 +0000

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which offers a great opportunity for people to get involved with the Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine. The organization is always seeking volunteers to help answer calls for its 24-Hour Crisis & Support Line, and they’re offering a free training session beginning next week, to train volunteers to help offer a lifeline for people who have been victims of sexual violence. SARSSM’s crisis and support line assists callers in York and Cumberland counties. Volunteer advocates work from home, have flexible hours, choose their shifts and do not need any experience. The organization’s new, comprehensive advocate training, “Help in Healing,” includes 38 classroom hours and five hours of journaling exercises. The training covers topics such as: The brain’s response to trauma, communication and listening skills, and victim advocacy. (read more at Journal Tribune)

Zumba Instructor Admits She’s Guilty Of Prostitution, But That’s Still Less Embarassing Than That Time You Wore Recalled Lululemon Yoga Pants To Drop Your Kid Off At School

Aubuchon Connery — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 09:41:59 +0000

PORTLAND, Maine — Alexis Wright on Friday pleaded guilty to 20 charges that she worked as a prostitute for more than a year and a half in her Kennebunk Zumba studio. Felonies in the case have been reduced to Class E misdemeanor crimes as part of the deal. The deal reached Friday did not include an agreement on jail time. Prosecutors are recommending Wright serve 10 months in jail. She is due to be sentenced May 31. Wright also pleaded guilty to tax evasion and theft charges. Friday’s plea talks came a week to the day after her co-conspirator Mark Strong, 57, of Thomaston was sentenced to 20 days in York County Jail and ordered to pay $3,000 in fines as well as $80 per day of incarceration. Strong was convicted on 13 counts — 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and one count of conspiracy to commit the crime of promotion of prostitution. (read more at Bangor Daily News)

But. I. Love. Him. So. Much.

Aubuchon Connery — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 09:24:54 +0000

FREEPORT — A 21-year-old Auburn man who allegedly met his 15-year-old girlfriend in violation of a protective order was arrested Saturday. The girl also was arrested later in the day after she allegedly slapped her mother and threatened her father with a steak knife. Officers went to the playground near Morse Street elementary school just after 1:30 p.m. because the teen’s mother said she saw the pair together, Freeport Police Chief Gerald Schofield said Monday. Police arrested Michael Paskell of Auburn, who had been “ordered not to have any contact with the female juvenile,” Schofield said. He was taken to Cumberland County Jail, where he awaits arraignment Monday afternoon. (read more at Lewiston Sun Journal)

More Mainers Are Choosing The Sweet Release Of Death Over Trying To Get Through All The Flannel To Their Wife’s Lady Parts

Aubuchon Connery — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 14:12:48 +0000

The number of deaths in Maine is on pace to eclipse the number of births for the second straight year, in a trend that could have implications for the state’s economy. U.S. Census data released Thursday show that from July 2011 to July 2012, deaths in Maine outnumbered births, 12,857 to 12,754. Those numbers probably will be adjusted, but they highlight Maine’s status as one of the nation’s oldest states and the fact that fewer families appear to be having children. The 2011 calendar year was the first in at least 70 years in which more people died in Maine than were born here, according to data from the state’s Office of Vital Records. The new census figures suggest that when the state numbers for 2012 are complete, they will show the trend continuing. While the trend nationally is more obvious in Maine and West Virginia — the only other state where deaths exceeded births from July 2011 to July 2012 — 1,135 of the nation’s 3,143 counties, more than one-third, are experiencing what economists call a “natural decrease.” That’s up from roughly 880 U.S. counties, about one-quarter, in 2009. (read more at Morning Sentinel)

Mary Tyler Less Passes Away At 69

Aubuchon Connery — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:29:18 +0000

LOS ANGELES — Actress Bonnie Franklin, best known for her starring role as a single, working mother on the hit CBS comedy “One Day at a Time,” in an era when U.S. television was redefining families in pop culture, died on Friday at age 69. She died at her Los Angeles home of complications from pancreatic cancer, surrounded by relatives and friends, according to a statement issued by the CBS network on behalf of her family. Franklin, a petite redhead, had acted on Broadway before being cast as the harried divorcee Ann Romano in “One Day at a Time,” which debuted in December 1975 and ran for nine seasons on CBS. It co-starred Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as her two head-strong daughters. (read more at Bangor Daily News)

Defense Attorneys, Who Are Apparently Still On AOL, Say Zumba Prostitution Evidence Would Horrify Jurors

Aubuchon Connery — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 13:37:15 +0000

ALFRED, Maine — Defense attorneys in the first of two major trials in the high-profile Kennebunk prostitution case tried to prevent the introduction in court of images allegedly found on Mark Strong Sr.’s computers, concerned that the sex acts depicted would “horrify” jurors and turn them against their client. The judge overseeing the trial suggested the images likely will be allowed, but before the jury has a chance to view them, Superior Court Justice Nancy Mills is expected to take up a defense motion Tuesday to dismiss all remaining charges in the case. Strong, a Thomaston insurance broker and part-time private investigator, faces 12 counts of promotion of prostitution and one count of conspiracy to promote prostitution in connection with the accusation that he helped Kennebunk fitness instructor Alexis Wright run a prostitution business out of her Zumba studio. Wright faces a separate trial scheduled to begin later this spring. (read more at Bangor Daily News)

The Story Is Ludicrous. Lord. You Can Imagine Where It Goes From Here. He Fixes The Cable?

Aubuchon Connery — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 13:51:30 +0000

ALFRED — The manager of a pizza shop next to the Zumba studio in Kennebunk where Alexis Wright allegedly ran a prostitution business testified Thursday that when he delivered food to her home, Wright dropped the towel she was wearing and stood naked in front of him. Daniel Racaniello, manager of Toppings Pizza, said he went to the Cousens School Apartments in Kennebunk to deliver pasta to Wright. “She just had a towel on and I walked in, proceeded to the table and put the food down,” Racaniello said in York County Superior Court. “She was getting the money out, and off goes the towel. “It got a little awkward. She was just standing there in front of me, naked,” he said. “It was really awkward. She proceeded to walk over to me and handed me the money. It was $40 or $50. I told her the bill was only $8, and she told me to keep it.” (read more at Kennebec Journal)