The jail workers’ union calls the budget plan to leave out funding for the positions ‘obtuse and counterintuitive.’
John Terhune
Staff Writer
As a member of METLN's quick strike investigations team, John writes about everything from gun legislation to housing. He previously spent a year on a deep-dive investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting as part of the Press Herald's collaboration with Frontline and Maine Public. A Waterville native, John has degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and spends his free time going to the movies, practicing the guitar and defusing arguments at men's league soccer games.
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April shooting was self-inflicted, South Portland police say
A 911 transcript obtained by the Press Herald provides few details about an April 12 shooting on B Street, which police have stopped investigating.
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Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Burglary suspect steals police cruiser and flees scene, police say
After Alexis N. Irving, 29, managed to slip from custody late Sunday night, South Portland police used the stolen cruiser’s GPS system to track her to a home in Biddeford.
Posted inMaine
Biddeford man pleads not guilty to assault charge in Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
Christopher Maurer is accused of hitting, screaming at and making obscene gestures toward Capitol police officers before he was pepper-sprayed and left the area.
Posted inMaine
Cumberland County jail lifts intake restrictions
Nearly 8 months after the Cumberland County jail closed its doors to most arrests, Sheriff Kevin Joyce announced Thursday that he had lifted intake restrictions.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Details of deadly Berwick shooting remain hazy
Police are waiting to speak to Christopher Utt, who was wounded in the shooting Saturday that left Edward Badeau dead, but Utt remains hospitalized in serious condition.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
One dead, another injured in Berwick shooting
Police have ruled the death of Edward Badaeu, 41, a homicide following a shooting on Saturday morning.
Posted inMaine
Police searching for missing Windham man
Alex R. Jackson, 33, who was believed to be traveling to Vermont in a white Dodge truck, was last seen Friday afternoon.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Federal grant will fund modernization efforts at Portland shipyard
Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Rep. Chellie Pingree successfully lobbied the Department of Transportation for more than $700,000 to upgrade Portland Ship Yard.
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Four arrested in connection with December shooting at Kennedy Park in Portland
Police say the shooter fired into the window of an apartment in Kennedy Park on Dec. 21. No one was injured, but bullets were found in a child’s bedroom.