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Man sentenced to 40 years in prison for killing partner on York beach
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Portland police arrest 3 teens in alleged ‘sophisticated’ drug scheme
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Sheriffs bust 3 more illegal cannabis operations in Somerset County
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Man dies in Farmington police chase after driving over spike mats, into tree
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Local & State
Maine House advances bill to end 3 strikes law for thefts
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Psych evaluation requested for Waterville man charged with threatening to kill Biden
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Local & State
Washington County lagging behind rest of Maine in use of yellow flag law
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State, Portland police investigate death at Cumberland jail
More in Maine crime
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The defense team says the state 'brought God into the courtroom' when he was convicted of murder for the 1988 death of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry, stripping him of his constitutional right to a fair trial.
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Rayevon Deschambault, 28, was convicted on 2 counts of sexually exploiting a child after he recorded himself abusing a 14-year-old in 2019, according to court records.
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Charles Allen Barnes, 46, pleads guilty to sending a racially charged death threat via social media in August 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Benjamin Brown, 45, was arrested March 11 by the FBI over online threats to gun down President Biden, other politicians and immigrants and is being held pending further appearance in U.S. District Court in Bangor.
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Police say they were able to identify Jeremy Proctor 'in part due to his unique tattoos.'
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State police charge a man and his girlfriend after two troopers are injured while responding to a domestic violence report on Saturday.
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Maine State Prison is better equipped than psychiatric hospitals to help certain defendants who have been ruled incompetent to stand trial, the Department of Corrections and DHHS say.
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Aaron Goodwin, a former Portsmouth police officer, insists that the incident was not racially motivated.
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Benjamin Martineau, 34, of Portland, faces several charges, including criminal restraint, domestic violence assault and terrorizing.
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The interim report, which also faults the Army, calls a Sagadahoc County deputy's failure to take Robert Card into custody in mid-September 'an abdication of law enforcement's responsibility.'
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City councilors agreed and said the city must crack down on illegal activities before the downtown that many have worked hard the last several years to revitalize will gain a reputation as being unsafe.
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A state police tactical team member shot Shay McKenna in September after he got out of his van with an AR-15-style rifle and body armor.
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South Portland police say Taylor Graffam was impaired when he crashed into several vehicles, light poles and a bus stop on Main Street.
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Corey Adams was sentenced to pay more than $18,000 in restitution for damage to airport gate, police cruiser window he damaged at the time of his arrest December 2022 arrest.
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Police say no one was injured in the shooting reported Wednesday night near the downtown area.
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Prosecutors say the defendant was driven by her drug addiction to buy a gun for her drug dealer.
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Prosecutors dropped theft charges against Michael Corson, 54, of Madison, as Corson’s jury trial was set to begin Wednesday morning but also filed a complaint for a new charge of aggravated criminal invasion of computer privacy.
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Found not guilty of workplace manslaughter after a roofer fell to his death in 2018, Shawn Purvis was back before a judge Wednesday, this time facing charges from the Maine Workers' Compensation Board.
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Jury selection was expected to begin Wednesday for the murder trial against Jeffrey Buchannan. Instead, he admitted to killing his girlfriend, Rhonda Pattelena, in 2021.
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Benjamin Brown was arrested Monday on a warrant charging transmitting a threatening interstate communication and his Spring Street apartment was searched, according to a U.S. District Court official.
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The scheme involved underreporting the herring catch to deceive state and federal regulators and the Internal Revenue Service.
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Judge Peter Darvin finds that the state didn't meet its burden in order to prosecute 17-year-old Tristan Hamilton as an adult on a charge of criminal solicitation for murder for an alleged plot to shoot up South Portland High School.
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Police seized evidence from the home, although it was not disclosed what that involved.
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Eric Knight pleaded not guilty to depraved indifference murder in the death of Benita Preo at his arraignment Monday afternoon.
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Eric Knight, also of Bridgton, was arrested Saturday in the slaying of Benita Preo.
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An Army spokesperson on Thursday called the lab findings regarding Robert Card 'concerning' and said they 'underscore the Army’s need to do all it can to protect Soldiers against blast-induced injury.'
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Daniel Ross, 31, of West Gardiner, to serve three years behind bars, pleading guilty to four charges but having 12 charges dropped, in plea deal.
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Police say releasing any information about the incident that prompted a shelter-in-place order and school lockdowns would hamper the investigation.
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Kimberly Sylvester, a registered nurse, denies being involved in any rioting, theft or destruction of property.
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Spridal Hubiak, 21, indicted by grand jury on charges he killed Angela Bragg, of Waterville, in December of 2023.
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Robert Card was a longtime reservist for a Saco-based unit. His colleagues became increasingly concerned about his behavior last year but took few steps to follow up on his mental health treatment.
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Robert Card's family agreed to release the findings of the brain analysis Wednesday.
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Marcel LaGrange, 25, entered an insanity plea last summer after he was charged with shooting Brittney Cockrell and Michael Hayter in front of their children.
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The new evidence is revealed in a hearing to determine if Tristan Hamilton, 17, should be tried as an adult on a criminal solicitation of murder charge. He is accused of asking another student to help carry out a school shooting in South Portland.
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Mark Cardilli Jr. shot and killed his sister's boyfriend, Isahak Muse, during a fight at the Cardillis' Portland home. State prosecutors are challenging a decision last year that vacated his conviction and ordered a new trial.
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The bodies of Jean Robinson and her daughter, Allison "Joy" Cumming were found dead on Dec. 27, 2023 within Pawsitive Dog Kennel at Red Schoolhouse Road in Farmington.
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The 36-year-old suspect was arrested Saturday after police searched 3 homes in Portland and South Portland.
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The York County Sheriff's Office says warrants have been issued for Pardelian Muntean, 21, and Liana Moldovan, 34.
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Abdirahman Mahmoud, 36, is charged in the death of Raoul Mapendo Tshiyka, 30, police said Sunday.
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On Jan. 30, authorities in Maine ultimately shot and killed a driver after a high-speed pursuit had been abandoned by New Hampshire police. Why did Fryeburg and Oxford County law enforcement make a different calculation?
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Braxtyn Smith was zip tied, injured and denied food, court records state. His mother, father and grandmother are charged with depraved indifference murder in the Feb. 18 killing.
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A judge is considering if the 17-year-old will be tried as an adult after his friend told police he was plotting a school shooting and had racist beliefs.
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Nearly 24 similar illegal marijuana operations have been busted across the state in recent months, this one being one of the largest so far. Officials have speculated there could be as many as 400 such operations statewide.
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The federal lawsuit names Morgan Polky, who admitted to sexual misconduct with the father when the state revoked her social worker license in 2018.
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Joshua Smith, Jem Bean and Mistie Latourette were charged with depraved indifference murder in connection with the death of a boy in Bangor last week.
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Andrea Ouellette, 65, of Lewiston faces a Maine Civil Rights Act complaint from the Maine Attorney General's office.
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Daniel Roberts is hoping a new method of analyzing DNA evidence will help him get a new trial in the 2005 slaying of his ex-girlfriend.
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Three men now are suing William McCook Jr., 83, who was a counselor at the Nobleboro camp from the 1950s to 1976 and volunteered with the organization until 2007.
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At an arraignment Tuesday in Somerset County Superior Court, Raheem Goodwin, 22, of Benton, pled not guilty to a charge of murdering Edwin Weeks, 62, of Fairfield.