Central Maine News: Nov 20, 2015

These are some of the stories central Maine is talking about today.

A jury has convicted a Waterville man of stabbing to death a 92-year-old man and stealing jewelry from his home. A jury convicted 46-year-old Roland Cummings of Waterville of killing Aurele Fecteau in May 2014. A forensic analyst testified that DNA from the turned-out pockets of Fecteau's pants linked Cummings to the crime. The state's chief medical examiner testified that Fecteau had been stabbed 16 times. The prosecutor argued that Cummings knew Fecteau had money, which he stole and used to support his drug habit. No sentencing date has been set. (AP)

The Kennebec County district attorney says former Waterville Senior High School Principal Don Reiter is charged with a misdemeanor for asking a student for sex in August. District Attorney Maeghan Maloney says Reiter won't be charged with attempted gross sexual assault because the alleged victim was 18 years old. The misdemeanor he was charged with on Thursday is punishable by up to six months in jail. The Waterville Board of Education fired Reiter on Monday. He had been on administrative leave since Aug. 27 while school officials investigated the allegation. Reiter's attorney says the facts of the case are disputed. He also says it's a stretch for the district attorney to use an anti-corruption statute in the case. Reiter is charged with official oppression. (AP)

Police say a woman who was shot in the head in a supermarket parking lot  as her boyfriend showed a handgun to a prospective buyer has died. An autopsy of 22-year-old Chelsea Jones of Thomaston is scheduled for Friday. She was sitting in the front passenger seat of an SUV at a Shaw's Supermarket in Bath when the shooting occurred on Monday. Police say her boyfriend, 23-year-old Dylan Grubbs of Thomaston was showing the gun outside the SUV when it went off. They have said he is cooperating with the investigation. State and local police are still investigating the circumstances of the shooting. (AP)

Augusta City councilors agreed to ban the demolition of historic buildings for the next six months. According to the KJ, the council’s decision, made over the objection of property owners, prohibits for 180 days the destruction of any historic building in the new historic district currently under consideration. The moratorium officially goes into effect in 10 days, though city attorney said before the meeting that state statute prohibits any historic buildings in the proposed district from being destroyed before that, so it affects things immediately. (centralmaine.com)

FBI Director James Comey says there's no credible threat to the United States following the Paris terror attacks. Comey says he's aware the Islamic State group and its supporters often issue propaganda in videos and magazines boasting about their plans and capabilities. But, he says, "that is not credible intelligence." In a news conference Thursday, Comey said the FBI is closely tracking dozens of people who could be prone to violence. (AP)

Local media say Thursday night's protests were mostly peaceful following the fatal shooting of a black man by Minneapolis police. The shooting of 24-year-old Jamar Clark on Sunday sparked days of demonstrations, and protesters have been camped out since the shooting. Police say two men were arrested Thursday night for allegedly spray-painting profane messages on the walls and windows of a police precinct building. (AP)

Former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle has been sentenced to more than 15 years for trading in child pornography and paying for sex with underage girls. The 38-year-old had ask for leniency, telling the judge in Indianapolis Thursday that he had succumbed to self-centered "deception and lies." But Judge Tanya Walton Pratt wasn't swayed, and gave him a harsher sentence than the 12½ years prosecutors wanted. Fogle also will have to submit to a lifetime of post-prison supervision. (AP)