Portland owed millions in unpaid tickets PORTLAND — The city of Portland is owed more than $3.7 million in unpaid parking tickets at a time when it is considering raising property taxes to boost the budget. WGME-TV reports that more than 171,000 parking tickets issued in the city have gone unpaid since 2008. The city’s […]
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Defendant who was stripped of right to attorney is convicted of robbery
PORTLAND (AP) — A Maine man who was stripped of the right to a court-appointed lawyer before being convicted of robbery is in a hurry to complete the case. Joshua Nisbet, who’s been jailed since July 2011, asked the judge to sentence him on the spot Thursday after a jury rejected his defense and convicted […]
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Portland lawyer pleads guilty to conspiring to launder drug money
PORTLAND — Portland defense attorney and sports agent Gary Prolman, the only lawyer to get an accused john acquitted in last year’s high-profile Kennebunk prostitution case, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to launder money for a drug trafficker. During a Tuesday afternoon appearance in U.S. District Court, Prolman pleaded guilty to a single charge […]
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NFL quarterback and wife establish scholarship for Catherine McAuley High School
PORTLAND — A graduate and former star athlete at Maine’s only Roman Catholic college preparatory high school for girls and her NFL quarterback husband have established a $125,000 scholarship endowment. Sarah Marshall Ryan graduated from Catherine McAuley High School in 2003 and helped lead the school to a pair of state basketball championships. She went […]
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Portland man faces child exploitation charge
PORTLAND (AP) — A Portland man has been arrested on charges that he made a video of himself having sex with a 15-year-old girl. Paul Henry was ordered held pending a detention hearing at his initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Portland on Thursday on a charge of sexual exploitation of a child. Prosecutors […]
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Record cold in northern New England
The sun is out and it’s warming up after an unseasonably cold morning in northern New England. The National Weather Service says the temperature dipped to 22 early Thursday in Portland, breaking the old record of 24 set in 2003. In Montpelier, Vt., it was even colder at 14 degrees, breaking old record of 17, […]
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Two Massachusetts men arrested in Portland for illegal elver possession
PORTLAND, Maine — Two men from Massachusetts were arrested Thursday in Portland after Maine Marine Patrol investigators found them with about 20 pounds of elvers and no license allowing them to possess them. Joshua P. Medeiros, 30, of South Dartmouth, Mass., and Andrew P. Cournoyer, 43, of West Wareham, Mass., both were charged with possession […]
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Despite frigid winter, Portland jetport traffic rises in March
PORTLAND, Maine — Despite a spate of winter-related flight cancellations in January and February, an increase of passengers flying from the Portland International Jetport in March kept first-quarter traffic on par with recent years. Data released Wednesday showed the number of passengers flying from the Portland airport rose about 6.7 percent in March to 64,414, […]
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WMTW to move out of Portland studio into Westbrook site
PORTLAND — WMTW-TV is moving its downtown Portland studio to a “broadcast-ready studio” in Westbrook this fall. The TV station announced Wednesday that it’s moving into a facility that’s large enough to eventually house all of its operations under one roof. The station currently has a headquarters in Auburn and studios in Portland. Greg Roehr, […]
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After reprieve, USM faculty will weigh in on where university cuts budget
PORTLAND, Maine — University of Southern Maine faculty members are preparing to take a more active role in addressing a $14 million budget shortfall that the university must resolve before the end of May after USM President Theodora Kalikow announced Friday that faculty layoffs would be reversed. Kalikow surprised faculty and students at a Faculty […]