Newsroom – The Latest News Updates from Q96.1

Check out the news headlines and listen to the latest update for Thursday, April 4.

A 35-year-old Presque Isle man who was serving time for drug trafficking has died in his cell at the Maine Correctional Center in Windham.

A Mars Hill man is going to prison for 10 years for trying to hire someone to kill his ex-wife. 43 year old Mark Stetson was sentenced yesterday in Aroostook County Superior Court.

A New Brunswick judge has found a teenage girl guilty of arson in connection with the burning of a church on the Kingsclear First Nation nearly 2 years ago.

Maine game wardens say a 64-year-old man survived being trapped under an overturned snowmobile for 20 hours in Northern Aroostook.

Aboriginal leaders say TransCanada Corporation's plan for an Alberta-to-Saint John oil pipeline will need their approval before crossing their traditional lands.

A two-vehicle collision on Route 1 in Bridgewater we first reported yesterday morning sent two people to the hospital.  State police say icy roads were a primary factor.

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