Maine Superior Court Justice Michaela Murphy rules that an agreement between the ACLU of Maine and the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services is not in the best interest of plaintiffs who sued the agency for failing to provide them with adequate legal representation.
John Terhune
Staff Writer
As a member of METLN's quick strike investigations team, John writes about everything from gun legislation to housing. He previously spent a year on a deep-dive investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting as part of the Press Herald's collaboration with Frontline and Maine Public. A Waterville native, John has degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and spends his free time going to the movies, practicing the guitar and defusing arguments at men's league soccer games.
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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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Portland first responders commemorate fallen 9/11 heroes
About 50 Portland residents gathered at the 9/11 memorial at Fort Allen Park on Monday morning to hear Fire Chief Keith Gautreau’s remarks on the 22nd anniversary of the attacks.
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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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Maine’s gun laws couldn’t stop 2 deadly shootings this year. Are more laws the answer?
Violent incidents in Bowdoin and Westbrook have been used by advocates on both sides of the gun control debate to argue that the current laws don’t work as intended.
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Contamination warnings issued for 5 Maine beaches as Labor Day weekend arrives
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found elevated levels of fecal bacteria at beaches in York, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, South Portland and Camden.
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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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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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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.