After being struck and killed morning. Highway patrol troopers say 18 yearold chille bar tells was walking in the lane south of Bowers Mansion around 1 00 a. M. Investigators say bartels was hit by a driver also traveling northbound in the same lane. Bart,ls was pronounced dead on scene. Troopers say the driver pulled over, and is cooperating with the investigation. The driver was the only person in the car at the time of the crash, and was later on warrants not associated with the deadly crash. Jury selection is underway this morning in lion county five years after a little boy was murdered in silver springs. Cody wallace has spent the last five years in jail, waiting for his trial to start. After the judge decleared a mistrial in 2013 because of several errors on the part of the District Attorney office. Wallace is charged in the death of twoyearold thomas con nell. Wallace was little boys death. The trial is expected to last three to four weeks. Republican state senator growing bowe
The top of Baldwin Hill in Fayette looks like hundreds, probably thousands, of similar hills across Maine. Ancient stone walls crisscross through second-growth stands of trees, the thick forest beneath tall pines is littered with blowdowns and a carpet of dead leaves.
A new gravel road that winds for nearly half a mile up the hill from Fayette Corner Road and a parking area and gravel path that winds around a grove of pines at the summit are the only signs anything is going on there. A clearcut at the edge of the summit offers a view of hills and farms to the east.