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Cops & Courts
Elderly woman slain in Owls Head remembered for her strength, faith
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Woman charged with killing 83-year-old acquaintance in Owls Head
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Limington homeowner confronts masked man, is shot multiple times
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Local & State
Jail in Alfred may continue transferring inmates to Cumberland County
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Cops & Courts
Maine’s high court rejects appeal by teenager’s killer in 1980 cold case
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Local & State
Maine’s high court allows defamation lawsuit against sex-abuse activist to proceed
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Cops & Courts
Gray man charged with beating, strangling girlfriend
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Cops & Courts
Maine’s ‘Cupid of Chaos’ may be prosecuted in New Hampshire first
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Former Auburn lawyer charged with practicing without license
More in Maine crime
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Police say Wesley Glidden, 35, was arrested on charges including possession of cocaine, suboxone and heroin, after trying to elude officers in Whitefield.
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Fray Cayetano of Lawrence was arrested after selling drugs to an undercover drug officer in August.
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Portsmouth police said Karl Patzke of York was ejected from his truck when he apparently ran a stop sign and collided with another vehicle.
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Scott Tedesco, 57, is charged with one count of possession of sexually explicit materials after police seized a tablet containing dozens of images of children under the age of 12.
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Michael Gray, 30, of Portland, was in restraints when he tried to walk out of the courthouse Tuesday. He was quickly apprehended.
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Luc Tieman, found guilty last year of murdering his wife, Valerie Tieman, in 2016, is appealing on the basis of evidence allowed at his trial.
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The court ruled Wednesday that the Constitution's ban on excessive fines applies to states.
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Richard Bubar was under bail conditions from a road rage incident last summer when he was arrested in Sedgwick.
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An Oakfield man was shot nine times in October 2016, prosecutors say.
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In court Tuesday, Steven Downs says he will contest efforts to send him to Alaska, where he is accused of raping and murdering a student in Fairbanks nearly 26 years ago.
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Police were looking for Jamison Snyder, 47, at a Biddeford apartment Monday when he jumped from the window and injured himself.
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Adrian Silva, 64, was arrested by Augusta police on a charge of failing to stop for officers after leading them from Augusta to the Winthrop line and back to Mulligan's in Manchester.
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Adrian Silva, 64, was arrested by Augusta police on a charge of failing to stop for officers after leading them from Augusta to the Winthrop line and back to Mulligan's in Manchester.
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Michael Gray, 30, was apprehended after a string of incidents in three communities, police say.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra says 16 states are signing on to the challenge against the president's border wall funding effort.
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The Auburn man was fired in 2016 from a Livermore Falls residential facility and received a warning from the state nursing board — in part because 2 female co-workers complained he'd made them feel uncomfortable.
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The man, who is not being identified, is hospitalized at Maine Medical Center in Portland.
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The judge in Noah Gaston's murder trial has given the chief medical examiner a month to explain his change of opinion.
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More than a quarter-century after a Native Alaskan woman was brutally slain in Fairbanks, authorities say they used the latest in DNA technology to identify her killer in Auburn.
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Keith Seglar, 30, faces two counts of reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon.
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Gerard Cormier is sentenced on cocaine trafficking and possession charges, but a charge of possession of a firearm by a prohibited person is dismissed.
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Steven H. Downs, 44, is arrested in Auburn in the killing of 20-year-old Sophie Sergie at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
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Michael Middleton of Old Orchard Beach is expected to face charges in Maine and New Hampshire.
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Dr. Mark Flomenbaum was fired from an administrative role in Massachusetts in 2007, years before he was hired here.
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Witnesses said it appeared Jessica Vennell was trying to pass the bus in Auburn when she hit the back of it, peeling back the hood of her vehicle.
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Christopher A. Hutchinson, 30, was convicted of seaman's manslaughter in the 2014 deaths for taking his vessel out after drinking and taking drugs. His boat capsized in a storm.
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Amy L. Bussard, who was extradited from Oklahoma to Maine, pleads not guilty to two felony charges of unlawful sexual contact with two girls under 12.
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Maine's medical examiner changed his conclusion about the angle of the gunshot that killed Alicia Gaston, evidence defense attorneys said was significant to how they approached the case.
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The man says he was assaulted after the corrections officer used a racial slur against him and then told other inmates he was a federal informant.
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The trial of Noah Gaston began Monday but has been interrupted by an unexplained legal issue.
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Such schemes accounted for more lost money than any other consumer fraud in 2018.
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The program is part of a statewide initiative launched by U.S. Attorney Halsey B. Frank.
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They conspired to illegally manufacture, package and distribute marijuana from a facility in Waldo County, according to the U.S. attorney.
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Phillip Nelson Campbell, 65, of Harmony faces up to 10 years in prison on a charge of unlawful sexual contact with a child under 12.
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Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy sends jurors home after a closed-door discussion Tuesday morning, interrupting the trial of Noah Gaston.
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The suspect slips on the ice across from the Bangor Savings Bank in the parking lot of a Waterville restaurant, where a state police lieutenant happened to be parked.
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Michael Middleton, 43, of Old Orchard Beach is being held pending an extradition hearing on Friday.
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James Millette was arrested in Reading, Pennsylvania, after investigators found hundreds of images of child pornography stored on his computer, according to court documents.
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Noah Gaston is charged with murder and manslaughter but says he mistakenly shot and killed Alicia Gaston in January 2016.
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Noah Gaston shot his wife in their home. Now a jury will decide whether Alicia Gaston's death was a crime.
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Michael Middleton of Old Orchard Beach, who failed to appear in court last week in New Hampshire, is awaiting extradition.
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The front door of the library was forced open.
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The Knox County Sheriff's Office is searching for two men.
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The case is the last one pending in federal court in which the former governor is a named party.
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Ashley Ouellette was just 15 when her body was discovered on a road in Scarborough early on February 10, 1999. Every parent's nightmare, the homicide case hasn't been closed, but authorities insist it's far from cold.
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Officer Nicholas Meserve's body was discovered Friday night in his residence on Webster Street.
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Adam Masucci, 39, is indicted on charges related to a brush fire Dec. 9 in South Berwick.
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Bicycle Coalition of Maine advocates express disappointment that James M. Mayo, who ran into and killed Dr. Carol Eckert after being blinded by the sun, didn't face more severe punishment.
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Documents filed by Sharon Carrillo's attorneys allege that her husband physically and sexually abused her and her daughter, Marissa Kennedy, who was beaten to death in February 2018.
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Dennis Ayala and Andrea Hoffman are two of four people who are accused of conspiring to distribute, and possess with intent to distribute, the highly addictive opioid in Maine.