John reports on police and crime for the Press Herald. He previously covered the cities of Bath and Brunswick for the Times Record and was a staff writer for The Forecaster. A former Waterville Panther, John returned to Maine after studying philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont and journalism at Boston University. When he’s not writing about Maine communities, John spends his time practicing yoga, organizing games of Survivor and obsessively following the Red Sox farm system.
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PublishedAugust 31, 2023
Westbrook man charged with killing couple in front of their young children enters insanity plea
Court records indicate Marcel LaGrange, 24, told detectives that he shot 2 people. He’s now facing several charges in the deaths of Brittney Cockrell, 37, and Michael Hayter, 41.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2023
Judge sets $250,000 cash bail for man accused of driving into 4 Maine state troopers
Tyler Croston, 24, was not required to enter a plea Wednesday on charges that he hit and and injured 4 state troopers when he drove off a road in Hollis.
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PublishedAugust 29, 2023
ACLU, Maine officials reach deal on lawyers for poor
The ACLU of Maine sued the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services in March 2022, saying it was failing to provide effective legal representation to poor Mainers.
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PublishedAugust 28, 2023
Man killed in Scarborough car crash
Police say Mudimbiyi Kalombo, 40, was found unresponsive in his car and later died at the hospital.
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PublishedAugust 23, 2023
Judge vacates manslaughter conviction of Portland man who killed sister’s boyfriend
Mark Cardilli Jr., who confessed to shooting 22-year-old Isahak Muse in 2019, will get a new trial after a judge ruled Tuesday that Cardilli’s attorneys failed to properly make a self-defense argument.
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PublishedAugust 22, 2023
Body of missing South Portland woman found in Caribou
Sonja Knight, 49, was reporting missing on July 27. Her family members say they don’t know why she would have been in northern Maine. The medical examiner’s office is working to determine a cause of death.
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PublishedAugust 21, 2023
Lobsterman discovers body in ocean off Addison
A Jonesport lobsterman on Monday spotted the body about 7 miles from where Tylar Michaud, 18, disappeared last month.
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PublishedAugust 17, 2023
Passenger in fatal Castine crash pleads not guilty to ‘co-conspirator’ charges
At her arraignment Thursday morning, Noelle Tavares, 21, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, denied responsibility for the December 2022 crash that killed 4 of her Maine Maritime Academy classmates.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2023
Bath native, AI entrepreneur accused of swindling investors
Michael Brackett was arrested Tuesday on wire and securities fraud charges after he allegedly lied to investors about the financial health of his tech startup, Centricity Inc.
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PublishedAugust 16, 2023
Body found on residential street in Bucksport
Police have not shared the identity or the cause of death of a Bucksport man whose body was discovered on Hinks Road early Tuesday morning.
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