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Sanctuary for Your Mind & Soul. App of the Day Journal App. Join millions of Journey users from all walks of life to create a healthier, happier mind. A sanctuary for your mind and soul, Journey diary will help you increase your positive energy, become more grateful, and cultivate a calmer mind by building healthy thinking through journaling. We’re more than just a journal or a diary; we’re your own motivational coach and happiness trainer. Embark on a fabulous journey of self-improvement today with us today. # Capture Beautiful Memories Capture precious moments & memories with photos, videos or audio that you can look back on in the future to reminisce about the events that happened that day. # Create Stunning Journal Entries Explore a variety of journaling tools in Journey's diary editor. Change paragraph styles, stylize your text with bold, italics and strikethrough, organize your writing with bullets, tables, and checklists, and play around with text color. # Throwback to Your Happiest Moments Get notified and look back at your best memories and your journal entries from a week, a month, or even a year or two ago. # Tend To Your Emotions With Mood-Tracking Take note of your feelings while journaling and keep track of how your mood fluctuates across your journal entries. View how your mood shifts across 30 days in your stories. # Private & Secure Space Set up a passcode, Face ID & Touch ID to keep your journaling notes & diary entries private and secure. # Power Up Your Journal With Plugins Power up your journaling routine with an extensive range of journal plugins. Explore functions such as exporting to DOCX & PDF, adding images & media, and blog publishing on Journey. # Journal Coach & Templates Breeze through journaling with more than 60 curated journaling programs from topics such as self-confidence, to boundary-making and practicing mindfulness. Kick-start your reflections with templates that have thought-provoking prompts and questions. # Create Custom Templates Take charge of your journaling by creating custom templates that suit your needs. Create, duplicate, and delete custom templates at your convenience. # Healthkit You can keep track of your fitness data from Journey (such as steps count & distance) via Healthkit. (Health App is required on your device to activate this functionality) # Other Features: - Cloud sync - Passcode and fingerprint lock - Available on mobile, desktop, and web - Add weather & location data to entry - View entries in timeline, calendar, or map - Advanced search: Activity, mood, favorites - Compose entries via email - Zapier Integration # Journey.Cloud Membership Journey.Cloud membership is an auto-renewing subscription. Pricing: US$3.99/monthly or US$29.99/year. Price may vary by location. - Daily reminder and inspiration into your email inbox - Write and attach photos from email - Unlock paid features on any Mac or other desktop devices - Unlock paid features on any iPhone or iPads devices - Unlock paid features on any other phones and tablets. Payment will be charged to the credit card connected to your iTunes Account when you confirm the initial subscription purchase. Subscriptions automatically renew unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current subscription period. Your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and the cost of the renewal will be identified. You may manage your subscription and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to your Account Settings after the purchase. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when you purchase a subscription, where applicable. Privacy Policy: https://journey.cloud/policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://journey.cloud/terms/ ------ For technical assistance or other inquiries, talk to us at https://help.journey.cloud.

Version 5.4.0

Thanks for using Journey! * New Locales: Arabic, Hebrew, Indonesian, Thai. * Right-to-Left layout support. * Journey Odyssey AI: AI that sifts through your past journal entries to provide a response that reflects your own recorded experiences and journey (Available on Journey Cloud Sync). * Web Link: Share entries by sending web links to friends & family (Available on Journey Cloud Sync). * Revamped Settings / Cloud Services UI. If you have any feedback regarding this update, please head to the forum at https://forum.journey.cloud or write to us at [email protected].

Ratings and Reviews

Fantastic journal app.

I love this app. It is absolutely fantastic and honestly I can't give any reason why not to use it. With that said I do think that the journey cloud is super limited. The web app is super nice but you can really only use the features if you connect to the journey cloud storage. However, the cloud storage has limited space and journal entries so the web app version is very limiting. There is a workaround the the bove issue, that is you can just download the app on any device rather than use the web app and connect it to google drive and you are able to do everything that the web app didn't let you do without the cloud storage.

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Not worth it

I've had a frustrating experience with this app for a few years now. I started journeling on the free version to see if I wanted to eventually upgrade. I entered 20 or so times and decided to export my entries to make sure I have a copy. For this feature you must pay (you can basically say this for any of the functional features). After lots of research, and waiting for a person to chat with that never arrived (despite being during the so called hours of opperation), I realized I could export my entries one at a time. They intentionally make it hard so that you must upgrade, but I would not give them the privelage. I mannually exported each one and am deleting this app. This is the Spirit Airlines of journal app LOL. Want to add your location? You must pay. Export entries? You must pay. Oh, you want to use Google as your cloud? Nope. Want to move your entries from Google to their cloud? You must download your entries (one at a time mind you) to your computer THEN upload them back to their server. Shouldn't it be easy to do it in the app? Yes. Do they offer this? No. I really don't see the difference in the app and entering doc files into google drive in a folder called "journal entries." Please don't give you money to this company.

Hi, thanks for the feedback. Automatic migration will be part of our to-do features this year. The current method of migrating to another cloud services is via through export/import. Once again, thank you for your patience and hope to seek your kind understanding.

Enjoying it so far

Despite some minor glitches when I use apostrophes in words while typing on a laptop it's been great. I like the images on the calendar view. The photo location feature is kind of nice. The overall user interface is easy to navigate so I'm happy with it.

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Jordan Equipment Company of Falmouth has issued its public notice that it intends to file for permitting to build a new 6,200-square-foot building to house a Bobcat Equipment dealership on a 15.6-acre lot at 6 Pit Road in Turner.

Public comment will be accepted during the application process and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection may hold a public hearing on the proposal, if it deems necessary.

A copy of the application is available for the public to review at the municipal office in Turner or at the DEP offices in Augusta.

The plans call for the building, an access road, gravel storage and parking lot area.

The legal notice indicates Jordan Equipment plans to file its application on or about May 22.

Editor’s Note: An earlier version of this story stated Kubota instead of Bobcat, based on incorrect information in the legal notice.

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Micah Leon’s seven-year journey to the NFL included three walk-on stops and 16 collegiate passes

FILE - Florida quarterback Micah Leon (12) call signals against McNeese State during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in Gainesville, Fla. Micah Leon’s journey to the NFL was far from normal. He was a walk-on quarterback at North Carolina State, UConn and Florida. His entire collegiate career spans seven years and includes two mop-up appearances. He completed 12 of 16 passes for 78 yards, barely enough to create a highlight reel. So getting a tryout with the Miami Dolphins during rookie minicamp this weekend was some feat.(AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

FILE - Florida quarterback Micah Leon (12) throws a pass against McNeese State during the second half of an NCAA college football game, Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023, in Gainesville, Fla. Micah Leon’s journey to the NFL was far from normal. He was a walk-on quarterback at North Carolina State, UConn and Florida. His entire collegiate career spans seven years and includes two mop-up appearances. He completed 12 of 16 passes for 78 yards, barely enough to create a highlight reel. So getting a tryout with the Miami Dolphins during rookie minicamp this weekend was some feat. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File)

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Micah Leon watched the last day of the NFL draft at home, his phone nearby.

He was hoping for the best (getting drafted late) and prepared for the worst (no call from any team). He was relieved with something in between.

The Miami Dolphins reached out during the final round, extending Leon an invitation to a two-day rookie minicamp that starts Friday.

This was what the 24-year-old Leon wanted, a chance to finally show what few outsiders got to see during his seven years — yes, seven — in college as a walk-on quarterback at North Carolina State, UConn and Florida.

Could he really make the pros?

“I feel like I can kind of blow past people’s expectations,” Leon told The Associated Press. “I’m excited for that.”

Calling Leon a long shot would be an understatement. His college career included two mop-up appearances with these stats: completing 12 of 16 passes for 78 yards.

So just getting an NFL tryout was truly a feat — and a testament to what scouts and front office folks see in Leon’s 6-foot-5 frame and clean throwing motion.

“The kid’s got one of the best arms I’ve ever seen,” said Eric Kresser, a high school football coach in Palm Beach County Florida who started working with Leon in 2016. “He’s a prototype.”

Kresser is convinced Leon is a hidden gem, a former tight end/defensive end who transitioned to a full-time QB as a senior at Boca Raton High in 2016.

“Big-time quarterbacks nowadays, the foundation all starts at a really young age and kind of stacks up,” Kresser said. “Sometimes you can get behind the 8-ball, and it’s really hard to get that big opportunity.

“Micah was just a little late in high school to the recruiting party.”

Kresser still recalls their first meeting. He was coaching future Florida State star Jordan Travis at The Benjamin School when Leon joined them on the field for a workout.

There it all was. Athleticism. Accuracy. Acumen.

“There wasn’t a whole lot of difference, other than Micah’s a lot taller than Jordan,” Kresser said.

Leon’s path from there was much less direct than the one Travis enjoyed in Tallahassee.

Leon spent his first two collegiate years at N.C. State and never threatened Ryan Finley’s starting job. He entered the transfer portal in 2019 and landed at UConn, where he saw an opportunity.

But Leon tore the labrum in his throwing shoulder on the third day of camp, an injury that turned out to be season-ending, and UConn’s 2020 season was wiped out by the pandemic. He thought he would get a chance in 2021, but surgery complications slowed his return.

Leon finally stepped on the field in the regular-season finale against Houston, a college debut memorable for all the wrong reasons. He played when UConn’s starting QB got hurt and, late in a 45-17 loss, a 320-pound defensive lineman landed on Leon’s foot while he was scrambling and dislocated several toes.

“I’m like, ‘Man, you’ve got to be kidding me,’” Leon said.

It would be another two years before he would get another chance. Following graduation, with one year of football eligibility remaining, Leon started looking for a third college.

When Florida quarterbacks coach Ryan O’Hara called, looking for roster depth in 2022, Leon was ecstatic. After all, he grew up rooting for the Gators and had family ties to the university about four hours north of his hometown.

So Leon passed along some training clips and “they liked it enough to take a shot on me,” he said.

One problem: When Leon began UF’s admission process, he quickly learned he was past the application deadline, so he had to sit out the 2022 season and wait until January to enroll. That also meant he needed an NCAA waiver for a seventh year — which he received, allowing him to enroll days before classes began.

“It just felt nice to finish in a place I really, really wanted to be,” he said.

Still, Leon wasn’t any closer to getting on the field regularly. Wisconsin transfer Graham Mertz was the top QB, with Jack Miller and Max Brown also ahead of Leon on the depth chart.

Seven months later, though, Leon was turning heads. Florida coach Billy Napier raised eyebrows in camp when he said: “We are giving him reps for a reason.”

Gators legend Steve Spurrier watched a few practices and was drawn to the big kid with the big arm. So the Hall of Fame coach and player added to the intrigue by proclaiming: “Don’t be surprised if Leon plays some here, real soon.”

“Every time he’s in there, the ball goes up and down the field in a good way,” Spurrier said.

Leon did play, but only in garbage time against McNeese State. He completed 2 of 3 passes for 16 yards. After Mertz’s season-ending shoulder injury in late November, Brown made his first career start against rival Florida State.

With Florida’s season over and his college career finished, Leon headed home and started working with Kresser three days a week and spending more time with renowned trainer Chris Verna, a biomechanics specialist Leon considers “a miracle worker.”

They helped Leon tweak his motion, hone his footwork and prep for Florida’s pro day, where he threw in front of 31 NFL teams. The Dolphins invited Leon to their local pro day and then called again as the draft wound down.

“You can’t hold guys like this down forever,” Kresser said. “He’s got all the tools. When you have all the tools, people don’t really just let you go.”

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Detroit lions’ giovanni manu makes long and winding journey to get to nfl.

Detroit Lions offensive lineman Giovanni Manu is seen during an NFL rookie practice on Friday in Allen Park. (AP photo)

On the rookie’s ride to work, he was overcome by tears of joy.

Manu’s excitement and emotions were triggered by a long and lonely path, leaving his parents on the south Pacific island of Tonga at age 11 to live with his aunt and two older siblings in Vancouver in the hopes of a better life.

A growth spurt in high school, along with support on and off the field, led to Manu becoming a 6-foot-7, 354-pound prospect that intrigued the Lions enough to trade up to draft him in the fourth round last month.

“It’s been such a long journey,” he said after participating in Detroit’s rookie minicamp.

Manu’s parents haven’t seen him play a snap of football in person, but he hopes they’ll come for a preseason game in August.

“It’s going to be really emotional, for sure,” he said.

Manu became the first football player taken in the NFL draft from the University of British Columbia, a school he chose instead of playing across the border for the Washington Huskies because of Thunderbirds coach Blake Nill.

“He sort of played that father figure role, knowing that my parents weren’t around,” Manu said. “It was a no-brainer for me to go play for a guy like that.”

The Lions, clearly, thought it was an intelligent move to give up a third-round pick next year to acquire a late, four-round selection to take the under-the-radar Manu at No. 126 overall.

“In the world of scouting, we talk about turning over every stone,” general manager Brad Holmes said.

It’s easy to see why the Lions were intrigued.

Manu is massive, even by NFL standards, and nimble enough to move his feet for a left tackle and to make low-post moves on a basketball court as he did in high school.

Detroit also has the luxury of letting him develop behind All-Pro offensive tackle Penei Sewell, who is from American Samoa, along with standout veteran Taylor Decker at offensive tackle.

While there isn’t pressure on Manu to perform right away in games, he is keeping expectations high on the practice field and in the weight room.

“I refuse to get outworked by my peers or my opponents,” he said. “The way I look at it is that, if someone outworks me, it stops me from feeding my family.”

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Two Rhode Island football players sign with NFL teams. Who are they?

Two University of Rhode Island football players have landed with NFL teams.

Offensive lineman Lorenzo Thompson has signed with the NFL's Cleveland Browns as a rookie free agent, and safety Jordan Colbert has signed with the Miami Dolphins as a free agent, both teams announced on Friday morning.

A Syracuse, New York, native, Thompson played in in 46 games at URI, with 37 consecutive starts. He was a 2023 First Team All-Coastal Athletic Association Football selection, anchoring a URI offensive line that allowed teammate Ja'Den McKenzie to break a nearly 70-year-old record when he rushed for 13 touchdowns in 2023.

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The Rams ran the ball for 133.3 yards per game, with McKenzie averaging 6.58 yards per carry — good for 10th in the country. Behind its line, Rhody was also 10th in the nation in passing offense at 284.8 yards per game.

An All-New England honoree and a Phil Steele Third Team All-American, Thompson capped his Rhody career with 37 consecutive starts. He also represented the Rams at the Hula Bowl.

Thompson becomes the second URI player on the offensive side to sign with an NFL team in the past two years. Former teammate and wide receiver Ed Lee was signed by the New England Patriots as a rookie free agent last summer. Lee is now on the roster of the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League.

Colbert is a native of Clinton, Maryland. who started all 10 of the games that he appeared in at URI, playing a key role in the secondary. He made 57 tackles in 2023, the fourth-most on the team, and notched three tackles for loss along with two interceptions. He also recorded a 49-yard fumble recovery for a touchdown opposite Stony Book on Sept. 8 and finished the year with three pass breakups.

He is the second URI safety to sign with an NFL organization in as many seasons, joining former teammate Jordan Jones, who signed as a rookie free agent with the Los Angeles Rams following the 2023 NFL Draft. Jones is currently playing for the Toronto Argonauts of the CFL.

6 babies in 7 years. 8 kids total. Why this Louisville woman put her motherhood journey in God's hands

Terri Paige, and her husband, Carl, had been parents for more than half their lives and could see their childrearing days ending.

Their son was about to go to college, and their daughter was a vibrant 10-year-old. They were just a few years away from emptying the nest they'd unwittingly started as teenagers.

Then, Terri gave birth to six more babies in seven years.

In her 43 years as a mother, Terri has been both a terrified 15-year-old mother and a 30-something who unabashedly put the size of her family in God’s hands.

She raised her first son between high school and college classes and gave birth to her final child while homeschooling their siblings. At various points in the past four decades, she’s been a successful business owner, her family’s primary provider, and a patient on her last nerve with her own dwindling health care.

But she was always a mother.

Ahead of Mother’s Day, Terri took a few moments to reflect on the journey that brought her eight grown children and led her to co-found the Medical Transformation Center in Louisville.

“I think we all do the best that we can at the time with the information that we have, but it’s a shame there has to be a first kid," she said. "Our (first) son just basically grew up with us. … With the (younger children) there was more intentionality.”

'The energy underneath is very determined'

When Terri’s eldest daughter, Emily, now 36, was growing up in the 1990s, she always thought of her mother as glamorous and successful.

Terri had an undeniable ability to enter a room prepared to tackle any task or meet any person. Emily watched her diligently train for and finish marathons. Her mother threw the best parties with exciting extras like smoothie bars and elegant touches like floating candles. She confidently made small talk in the grocery line and could walk away from almost any situation with five new friends.

Her mom had a superhero quality to her.

"She's a very strong woman, and very determined," Emily said of her mother. "If she has a goal, she will try to achieve that goal. The goals might change over the years, but the energy underneath is very focused, very determined."

Motherhood didn’t always feel so powerful to Terri, though.

Terri didn’t plan her first baby, Emily’s older brother Jason, the summer before her senior year of high school. Terri and Carl were high school sweethearts in Muhlenberg County in the late 1970s when she got pregnant. Raised Catholic, she says she felt a deep sense of shame around her pregnancy at the time.

But she didn't let that stop her.

Even while raising Jason, Terri graduated second in her class at Greenville High School, and then immediately set out to find the cheapest apartment she could near the University of Kentucky for college.

She was insistent on attending college even though she was a new mom, but her first semester at the University of Kentucky was a “disaster” as she balanced inopportune class times, child care, working to pay bills, and raising a toddler.

But the Paiges had a plan. Terri’s 18th birthday came early in her second semester, and she and Carl married two weeks later. She wanted to power through a corporate accounting degree so she could support her young family while Carl attended medical school to become an internist and pediatrician. She dreamed of opening a private practice together, where she would run the business side and he’d care for patients.

“I was the business operations, and he was really the blood and guts,” she said. “We have very complementary skills that work well together.”

Terri graduated and began working as a corporate accountant in Lexington. As their life somewhat stabilized in their early 20s, they chose to do something that’s only happened once in their four decades of marriage — they planned for a baby. Emily arrived right on time during Carl’s fourth year of medical school.

When Carl matched with the University of Louisville for his residency, they packed up their life in Lexington and bought a home in the Highlands. But they struggled financially throughout the early 90s. It took Terri months to secure a new job, and in those months, they relied on credit cards for groceries. Carl’s meager paychecks, which amounted to about $16,000 a year, didn't stretch far.

She eventually landed a job as an internal auditor and business manager for retail banking at PNC.

After Carl's residency, the Paiges moved to a farm in Oldham County. They found an office in Crestwood, painted the walls , , and waited for the patients to come. Their dream had finally become a reality.

As time passed, the practice grew and added partners, and Terri took a step back from the business in her early 30s. She'd kept some health issues at bay throughout her life, such as depression and gastrointestinal issues, and so she always had an emphasis on a fit and healthy lifestyle. She trained for those marathons, and at one point, she considered buying a gym. With her newfound leisure, she made lunch dates with other women in the community and joined a book club.

Terri has always been goal-orientated, but for the first time since she’d started her family 17 years before, she wasn’t sure what came next.

“Sometimes when we go and go, and go, and never stop, and then you stop — it kind of hits you,” she explained. “That’s really what had happened my whole life. I think I'd been running on adrenaline up to that spot.”

'You have got to figure this out'

As that adrenaline fizzled out, Terri felt an overwhelming desire to “get quiet.” She felt a pull toward her faith, but it was bigger and more intentional than simply going to church.

“Most people when they’re teenagers and young adults, that's where they develop who they are and their core values … and their identity,” Terri said. “I kind of skipped that part.”

Terri wanted to understand what she believed.

While the Paiges had baptized Emily and Jason, and celebrated their first communion through the Catholic Church, up until this point, faith was more about ceremony than practice.

So Terri began attending Bible studies from a variety of Christian denominations. She read the Bible cover-to-cover, and then she read the Catechism of the Catholic Church, which outlines the faith’s doctrine, too. At that point, she’d been on birth control pills for nearly 18 years, which goes against the teachings in the Catechism.

“I just felt like I couldn’t take these anymore,” she said, of the contraception. “I felt like I dived into understanding the teaching there.”

Once she stopped taking the pills, she became pregnant with her third child, Lily, in a matter of weeks.

Nonni, Joseph, Grace, Gus, and Marcy joined the family, one by one every year or so, for the next six years. Perhaps, more children might have followed, too, if a complication during Terri’s final birth hadn’t led to a hysterectomy.

Quadrupling the number of children in the family certainly shocked Emily in the beginning, she remembered, but now it’s impossible to imagine life without her younger siblings. Her glamourous mother shifted from a successful, business-driven socialite and turned her attention to growing her family. Terri dove into cooking and filled her kitchen table with homemade breads and pastas.

She started homeschooling Lily and added each young child into the mix once they became old enough for lessons.

All the while, Terri struggled with her health. She’s had issues before, but they became unbearable after her eighth and final child was born. Terri’s autoimmune system and metabolism were shot. She struggled with chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, and spastic colon. She’d gained 60 pounds, and shingles outbreaks ravaged her face, neck, and shoulder.

A regiment of traditional medications helped manage the increasing discomforts, but to Terri, it felt more like she was masking the problems than finding solutions for them.

“Look, here it is again,” she remembers telling Carl, frustrated at another round of shingles.

“Well, did you take your pills,” he questioned.

She wanted to scream.

“I didn’t work so you could go to medical school for you to tell me ‘to take a pill,’” she told him. “You have got to figure this out.”

That’s how the next major addition to their life, the Medical Transformation Center, was born.

Medical Transformation Center opens in Louisville

Carl began exploring how lifestyle, genetics, and other factors impact illnesses. He researched cellular medicine as a method of treating inflammatory, autoimmune, cardiovascular, and gastrointestinal diseases. By uncovering and managing cellular inefficiencies, Carl could strengthen and optimize individual cells. The idea was to support her whole body from its basic unit up.

Terri’s health improved dramatically.

Carl and Terri launched the Medical Transformation Center in 2014, which initially operated as part of his general practice. In 2021, they expanded to a state-of-the-art medical center in Kentucky where they focus on helping patients with healthy aging, optimization, longevity, and restorative care.

For Terri, growing that business, helping other patients, and maintaining her longevity is wildly important.

Now her youngest child is 17, and while most of her children are approaching a point where they could leave home, she assumes she’ll never truly have an empty nest. Her fourth child, Nonni, has Down syndrome , and she expects she’ll, at least, always be at home with them.

Her family will continue to evolve. She has three grandchildren, and she's excited for more to come as her children build families of their own. She’s already had the surreal moment when she moved her second youngest child, Gus, into his dorm room at the University of Kentucky.

Sure, Terri studied on that campus, but she missed the whole dorm experience.

“I walked these streets, these lanes, as a mom living off campus and figuring it out,” she said. “It was weird. It really did bring a lot of that emotion back.”

Those lanes, streets, and other decisions led her through four decades of motherhood and three decades of running a business with her husband. While the portrait of her family, her faith, and her career have certainly changed over the decades, her philosophy hasn’t shifted much since she was a 15-year-old student carrying her first child at Greenville High School.  

“You just do what you need to and move through it,” she said.

Reach features writer Maggie Menderski at [email protected].

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PARIS — Eleven law enforcement officers from five agencies are on administrative leave following an officer-involved shooting Monday in Paris , according to the Office of the Maine Attorney General.

They include Lt. Justin Brown and deputies William Nelson, Jeffrey Howe and Danielle Vienneau of the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office; Sgt. Dan Hanson and Trooper Tyler Nadeau of Maine State Police; Detective Gary Hill and Cpl. Robert Federico of the Norway Police Department; Sgt. Allen Coffin of the Paris Police Department; and Chief Rickie Jack and Officer Michael Rioux of the Oxford Police Department.

Administrative leave is standard practice in any officer-involved shooting, according to the AG’s Office.

The officers were responding to an incident Monday in which Gary Porter, 37, was eventually arrested after crashing two police vehicles on Route 117. He is charged with two counts of theft, assault on a police officer, escaping custody, eluding police and violation of bail. He is scheduled to make his first appearance in a South Paris court at 1 p.m. Wednesday.

Watch: Police arrest suspect after chase and gunfire on Route 117 in Paris

According to officials, the incident started after Porter was arrested Monday morning on a warrant charging felony theft. He was initially taken to Stephens Memorial Hospital in Norway due to unrelated health conditions.

Paris police Chief Michael Dailey drove Porter from the hospital to the Oxford County Jail in Paris, according to Shannon Moss, spokesperson for the Maine Department of Public Safety. As Dailey was attempting to remove Porter — handcuffed and wearing a hospital gown — from the vehicle, Porter somehow slipped his cuffed hands from behind his back to his front, jumped into the driver’s seat of Dailey’s police vehicle and drove away. Dailey was thrown from the moving vehicle while attempting to stop Porter, she said. Advertisement

Officers from Norway, Oxford and Paris, Cumberland and Oxford County sheriffs’ deputies, state police and state fire marshals pursued Porter, along Route 117 where he crashed the chief’s vehicle into a ditch, Moss said. “Officers confronted Porter and gunfire was exchanged. Porter was struck but fled and stole an Oxford County Sheriff’s vehicle, which he crashed a short distance up the road.”

He was eventually taken into custody, treated and released from a local hospital and taken to the jail, Moss said.

According to records obtained from the Maine State Bureau of Identification, in 2011 Porter was charged with misdemeanor assault and disorderly conduct by state police in Houlton, with another three charges of assault stemming from the same incident in January that year added by the Aroostook County district attorney.

Porter was later found guilty of two counts of assault and one of criminal threatening. The disorderly conduct and the third assault charge were dismissed. He was sentenced to serve 11 months, with all but 30 days suspended, and fined $300.

In September 2023 in Norway, Porter was charged with felony theft by unauthorized taking or transfer and misdemeanor theft by unauthorized use of property. He was indicted on both charges April 11. That case is pending.

According to court records, Porter listed his home address as Ash Way in Paris as recently as April 11, and has previously lived in Woodland. Advertisement

His driver’s license was suspended in 2020 after he was twice charged with failing to produce evidence of insurance and then failed to pay a fine on one of those charges.

In August 2022, Porter was slightly injured when he drove off Park Street at the intersection of Jackson Crossing Road in Paris in a pickup truck. According to the accident report, the road where he crashed was clear and dry and he told the responding officer he felt tired and dizzy just before the crash. He was not wearing a seat belt and sustained cuts to his head and face.

Porter was living in Bryant Pond village in Woodstock at the time; the truck was owned by a woman who also lived in Bryant Pond.

As a result of that crash, he was charged with operating after suspension. His license expired in October 2022, according to the Bureau of Motor Vehicles.

A witness to Monday’s confrontation said she came upon the gunfire while heading to Wilton.

Linda Mercer said she saw two police cruisers blocking the road and several others ahead near a truck in the ditch. Advertisement

“It sounded like he was firing at the police, and they returned fire while he was still in the ditch in the truck,” Mercer said, who was filming it with her cellphone.

“After things quieted down, he started moving around again and they shouted for him to come out,” she said.

“He kind of walked slowly to the back of the truck like he was going to come around and give up,” she said. “Then he took off running. You could see his hands bound.”

Handcuffed and still wearing a hospital gown, Porter jumped into another police vehicle, she said, adding she thought he fired two shots at police who immediately returned fire as he drove away.

She said she never felt she was in danger until Porter raced to the second vehicle and exchanged shots with police. At that point she hid behind her vehicle, while still filming the scene.

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