After a federal lawsuit was filed this summer, some who went to the school in the ’70s and ’80s say they’re still haunted by their experiences at the Bath boarding school.
U..S. District Court
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education
Lawsuit against Hyde School at risk after attorney errors
A Maine-based lawyer asked to withdraw from the federal lawsuit against the Bath boarding school last week, saying his co-counsel from Massachusetts made ‘inaccurate and unsupported legal citations’ in court records.
advertisement
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Lisbon man sentenced to 3 years for stealing from site of quadruple homicide in Bowdoin
Arden Shaw pleaded guilty to stealing U.S. Border Patrol equipment from the home where a quadruple homicide occurred. He was sentenced in federal court Tuesday.
Posted inMaine, Schools & Education
More former Hyde School students allege mistreatment. Others say experience was positive.
The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram published an investigation last week featuring accounts of negative experiences from former students of the private school in Bath. Hyde also has been sued in federal court, but leaders have denied all allegations.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Patagonia drops lawsuit against Marden’s over fake jackets
The outdoor gear brand had accused the Maine bargain retailer of selling counterfeit jackets with ‘virtually identical’ copies of the Patagonia label.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime, News, Oxford Hills
Man sentenced for stealing from postal workers, post offices in central Maine
Lance Funderburk and his accomplice targeted post offices in Paris and Monmouth, and postal carriers in Lewiston.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Lobster industry’s defamation case against aquarium paused while appeals court interprets libel law
The lawsuit, which has spent years in limbo, claims the California museum’s sustainable seafood certification unfairly downgraded Maine’s fishery over right whale protections.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Suit accuses Camden National Bank of selling customer data to Meta, Google
The class-action lawsuit says the bank tracks and sells sensitive financial and personal information to improve marketing campaigns and data analytics.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Bridgton man charged with threatening to shoot Trump
The man allegedly told an undercover Secret Service agent that he planned to kill the president.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine, Maine Crime
Dominican national pleads guilty to illegally entering U.S.
Prosecutors say Odanis Manuel Brea Mejia was caught in Lewiston after he had previously been removed from the country.