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A Wales man has been arrested again for allegedly trying to hook up jumper cables to steal electricity from a Central Maine Power pole and transformer. Nicholas Gagne, 36, initially was arrested in January at his 237 Oak Hill Road home after he was accused by Central Maine Power officials of repeatedly climbing a power pole outside his house to connect “what amounted to jumper cable clamps” to the transformer and running a power line to his house. On Thursday morning, Gagne was arrested again near his home at 237 Oak Hill Road after state police Trooper Tyler Plourde, acting...

Authorities at Fort Benning, the U.S. Army post in west Georgia, say they're dealing with an ongoing "emergency situation" at the post's Warrior Transition Battalion. Fort Benning officials said Wednesday afternoon on the base's official Facebook account and on Twitter that officials have secured the area and that personnel were safety evacuated as a precaution. Officials at the scene have determined that there is no longer a threat to anyone on base, according to a Facebook post. Base officials said in the social media posts that children in a child development center were safe but were being moved to another...

CHARLESTON, WV - UPDATE: According to Trooper Wilson of the WV State Police Quincy Detachment, who is handling the case, Angelo Dilo, of Zanesville, OH, was tied up by both his ex-wife Patricia and Ronald Coleman at around 8 p.m. Friday, and was beaten with a sword with a 20-inch blade, as well as jumper cables and a bag of tools. Trooper Wilson says Dilo, who moved to the Charleston area three to four weeks ago and has been in the process of opening up a business with his brother at the building formerly known as Hall's Sign, escaped from...

The parents of a Camden boy who died in the trunk of a parked car.....have filed a lawsuit against local officials and Toyota........David Agosto and his wife, Iraidia Roman-Santiago, are the second and third filed in the aftermath of the June 2005 tragedy. The three boys, Daniel Agosto, 6; Anibal Cruz, 11; and Jesstin Pagan, 5, disappeared from Cruz's backyard on June 20, 2005, setting off a massive search......About 48 hours after they disappeared, relatives looking for jumper cables found their bodies in the back of a broken-down Toyota Camry parked in the Cruz family's yard. David Agosto opened the...