David Hench

Staff Writer

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Published
June 20, 2012

Falmouth title teams celebrate to excess

Police charge a couple with furnishing a place for minors to drink after breaking up a party for baseball and lacrosse players.
Published
June 20, 2012

Man gets 16-year sentence in fatal Maine beating

Ernest Weidul repeatedly beat Roger Downs Jr. during a drinking binge.
Published
June 19, 2012

Falmouth High championship party ends with arrests

About 75 to 100 students were at a party on Fieldstone Drive on Saturday night, where police found students drinking, doing drugs, vomiting and passed out.
Published
June 19, 2012

Police accuse man of fleeing crash, punching police dog

Police say the Buxton man fled the scene of a crash on foot, leaving behind two injured passengers, and punched the dog as police closed in.
Published
June 19, 2012

Weidul sentenced to 16 years for manslaughter

Ernest Weidul was convicted in May on a charge of manslaughter in the 2010 death of Roger Downs Jr.
Published
June 19, 2012

Portland police zero in on mental health calls

New information on calls for service helps the city assign officers and allocate resources.
Published
June 18, 2012

Homeless man charged with stabbing another

Jeremiah Schaffner, 21, turned himself in to Portland police Sunday and was charged with elevated aggravated assault. The 25-year-old victim underwent surgery at Maine Med.
Published
June 18, 2012

Traffic moving again on Falmouth turnpike spur

Westbound traffic on the Falmouth turnpike spur faced lengthy delays after a RV broke down in a construction zone this morning.
Published
June 16, 2012

Bridgton man charged with assault of reporter

David Houston is caught on video when a TV reporter asks about a sign calling the president names.
Published
June 15, 2012

Bridgton man charged with assaulting reporter

The WGME-TV reporter was interviewing David Houston, 59, about a sign that allegedly uses an ethnic slur to describe the president and urges people to join the Ku Klux Klan.

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