Melissa J. Bagley, 32, who is charged with child endangerment, allegedly left the children, ages 3 and under, in the van with the windows cracked while she got her hair done.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and courts news from the Portland Press Herald.
Scarborough man sentenced on federal gun charge
Primo Tosi was sentenced to almost 3 years in prison for possessing a firearm while subject to a protection order against him.
At student’s request, DA drops sex charges against former Bonny Eagle coach
District Attorney Stephanie Anderson says a factor in her decision was that former cheerleading coach Nicholas Perry and the 18-year-old student ‘had a relationship that pre-dated his becoming a coach.’
Acton woman indicted on murder charge
Kandee Weyland is accused of stabbing her ex-husband in front of their children.
Court upholds Bangor man’s conviction in infant son’s death
The judge who heard Dustin Brown’s case rejected the defense’s argument that the baby’s death in 2012 was a ‘medical mystery.’
Lewiston woman who attacked ‘lazy’ boyfriend with hammer goes to prison
Crystal Foss pleaded guilty in January to aggravated assault.
With denial, court says man convicted of 2008 machete attack gets no more appeals
Daniel Fortune, serving a life sentence for the attack in Pittston on a 10-year-old girl and her father, loses his latest – and apparently last – case before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court.
South Paris woman pleads to buying gun for felon who died in shootout
The firearm that Stephanie Knightly, 50, bought in August 2014 was used the next day in the shootout with police in which Steven Piirainen was killed.
Westbrook tax collector who stole $118,000 is sentenced to 6 months
Ann Marie Williams, 52, of Falmouth was also ordered to repay the $118,000 in cash payments she skimmed from city coffers.
Portland responds to 8 suspected overdoses in about 24 hours
None of the overdoses were fatal, police said.