AUGUSTA (AP) – Maine’s top election official says the recount of a referendum on the legalization of marijuana has formally concluded and the results are headed to the governor. Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap said Wednesday that residents voted to legalize the drug by a margin of 3,995 votes. Election night tallies showed passage winning […]

MACHIAS (AP) — A jury in the trial of a Maine man charged with killing a couple and setting fire to their home has returned some guilty verdicts, but it’s still deliberating the murder charges. Jurors on Wednesday convicted Matthew Davis of four counts of arson, three counts of theft and one count of aggravated […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — It’ll take $17 million and five years to bring Maine’s courts into the 21st century. Maine has selected Tyler Technologies to transform the state’s 200-year-old system of paper court filings and documents tucked in courthouse cabinets. The company’s software will let court users initiate cases and file motions remotely and let litigants […]

BANGOR (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a Canadian man has pleaded guilty to charges of attempting to enter the United States after having been ordered removed. Fifty-four-year-old John Fraser of Nova Scotia pleaded guilty on Wednesday. Court records state that Fraser drove a vehicle with Florida license plates to the Calais, Maine, point of entry […]

BANGOR (AP) — Prosecutors say a Maine man has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for selling counterfeit versions of century-old U.S. dollar coins. U.S. Attorney Thomas Delahanty says 32-year-old Mwashuma Sithole, of Waterville, started ordering counterfeit Morgan dollar coins in May 2014. Morgan dollars were minted from 1878 to 1904 and again in […]