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default budget, is $190,000 more. Why would the regularly thrifty-minded selectman vote for the bigger of the two budgets? To stay out of court. DiGregorio, a former member of the
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Ossipee man convicted of sex charges, kidnapping
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OSSIPEE -- Sex, beer, rape, theft and fraud. A Superior Court jury heard it all during the trial of an Ossipee man who it later convicted on a slew of charges following a crime spree that began in Wakefield and ended in Tamworth two years ago. Michael Cheney, 50, of Ossipee, was accused of raping a Wakefield woman at knife point, tying her up, and stealing her car on Dec. 26, 2008, and then fleeing north where he entered into a high speed chase with law enforcement. Police picked up his trail in Ossipee, where he collided with a state police cruiser and evaded police by darting into the wrong lane and into the breakdown lane at an excessive rate of speed. Police corralled him in Tamworth where he had to be forcibly removed from the stolen Geo Prizm, police said. The jury heard closing arguments from both sides on Thursday, March 23. The jury came back into session on Monday morning and delivered a verdict by 11:50 a.m. Out of the 14 original charges, the jury found Cheney guilty of 10. Two
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As strategy to stay out of court, DiGregorio to support higher of two school budgets at polls CONWAY — Selectman Mike DiGregorio is encouraging people to vote down the school board's budget even though the budget that would then kick in, called the
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CONWAY — It is said for children testifying in sex abuse cases, retelling the same story over and over in court and to investigators is almost as traumatic as
the physical abuse. For children in Carroll County, that's changed. see CHILDREN page 8
see CONVICTED page 11
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