Abdi Awad, 37, pleaded guilty to felony murder in the death of 41-year-old Allen MacLean.
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Man charged with kidnapping after hourslong police standoff in South Portland
Route 1 was closed for several hours early Tuesday morning while police negotiators tried to persuade a 40-year-old man to let a woman leave a motel room.
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Rumford man charged in brother’s December death fails to show up for arraignment
Police said the shooting death followed Shay L. McKenna’s argument with his mother over payment to his older brother for shoveling snow.
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Madison man pleads guilty to wire fraud in ‘ticket switching’ scam at Maine stores
Aaron Hoster, 51, entered the plea Monday in U.S. District Court in Bangor for switching the price tags for pricey items at Home Depot and Lowe’s stores.
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Maine’s rural counties scramble to fill gaps in police patrols
As state police pull back on routine patrols of rural areas, some county officials are banding together to take the fight to the state level.
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One face, two identities: The story of Napoleon Gonzalez
The Etna man, who says he once served time for faking his own death, was convicted last month of several counts of fraud for using his dead brother’s identity for more than half a century. This is how officials caught up with him.
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Portland police seek public’s help to solve 2008 killing of security guard
James Angelo, 27, a security guard at Mercy Hospital, was shot and killed early on the morning of Sept. 7, 2008. His death remains unsolved 15 years later.
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Maine recovery community mourns Freeport woman found dead in South Portland
Friends of Danielle Goodwin say the 52-year-old was passionate about helping others enter recovery. Goodwin’s body was found Tuesday and police are investigating her death as a homicide.
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South Portland teen accused of trying to recruit someone to commit murder at high school
Prosecutors say a 16-year-old ‘did command or attempt to induce another person’ to kill members of the South Portland High School community last fall.
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Authorities identify body found in South Portland as Freeport woman, say she was killed
Danielle Goodwin, 52, was found near Clarks Pond Parkway on Tuesday. Investigators are seeking help locating the vehicle Goodwin was last seen in, a blue 2016 Honda CRV with Maine license plate 2773VM