Wednesday’s talk comes after KKK propaganda littered some communities.
Cops & Courts
Police, crime and courts news from the Portland Press Herald.
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Teenager charged with firing shots into Canaan home
The 17-year-old boy faces felony counts that include criminal threatening and reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.
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Convicted murderer asks Maine high court to overturn conviction in beating death
Jason Cote asks the court to overturn his murder conviction in the bludgeoning death of Ricky Cole in Somerset County in 2013.
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Man accused of assaulting, shouting racial slurs at Portland students pleads not guilty
Jamie Hoffman, 20, was charged Friday with allegedly shouting racist remarks at Casco Bay High School students waiting for a bus.
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Portland pizza delivery driver robbed at gunpoint
An order for four pizzas to a fictitious address was used to lure the driver, who was unharmed.
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Man again appeals conviction in 2008 Pittston machete attack
Daniel L. Fortune, 29, seeks clarification of a superior court judge’s order in an earlier appeal.
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Man found not criminally responsible for Vassalboro blaze
It was the second time in 13 years that Scott Audet, who has a history of mental illness, set fire to a home he owned.
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New Yorker to spend 18 months behind bars for cocaine trafficking
Peter Hernandez was arrested in December 2014 in Augusta after police said they found a plastic bag on him ‘with 9 grams of cocaine base divided into retail doses’ as well as cash.
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Maine Republicans accuse Portland schools chief of politicizing alleged hate crime
The criticism of Superintendent Xavier Botana comes on the day police arrest Jamie Hoffman and charge him with accosting four ninth-graders.
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State seeks to prosecute Winthrop teen as adult in killing of parents
Police say Andrew Balcer called 911 from the family’s Pine Knoll Road home about 1:45 a.m. Oct. 31, 2016, to say he had stabbed his mother, his father and the family dog.