Some members of the Maine State Prison Debate team are at the heart of stalled legislative efforts to reinstate parole in Maine for the first time in more than 40 years.
A group of out-of-state travelers may be behind two Portland burglaries last week, along with 'many more' similar cases in New England and New York, police said.
Police arrested 40-year-old Matthew Plummer at an apartment complex in Boothbay Harbor early Monday morning, more than 10 hours after Plummer allegedly shot a man in a nearby parking lot.
Police on Friday announced the launch of what they're calling Neighborhood First, an initiative aimed at lowering the number of quality of life service calls received by the department.
Zacheriah Adams was taken into custody Wednesday on several charges. Several people previously accused him of taking thousands of dollars from them to perform home repair work before disappearing, but the charges are not related to those accusations.
Maine Supreme Judicial Court said Bethany Ringuette, as an accomplice, is accountable for the actions of a man who engaged in sexual acts with a young girl, and "guilty of the crime as if he acted as a principal, and a guilty verdict rendered on either theory is thus indistinguishable."
According to court records, the former Auburn woman, then 23, was raped by two men the same night at a Boston hotel. A criminal trial of one of the men began on Wednesday.
Ahead of a ruling on the case of Kyle Fitzsimons, facing 11 federal charges for his role in the storming of the U.S. Capitol, neighbors and community leaders debate the impact on the small town.