Rusty Hood pleaded guilty on charges he transported images of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
Edward D. Murphy
Ed covers the City of Westbrook and business stories for the Portland Press Herald.
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Dresden man with felony convictions sentenced on firearm possession
Michael Burns received 55 months in prison for incident involving domestic assault while he was on probation.
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Honduran man appeals federal conviction
He was found guilty of being in the U.S. illegally, but his lawyer has argued that he was initially stopped because of racial profiling.
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Woman found in Lisbon pond died of accidental drowning, police say
The body of Carol Plourde was found in the pond Sunday.
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Judge told arson suspects are intellectually disabled, sets bail at $1,500 each
A historical society official says prized artifacts were lost in the fire at an 1849 one-room schoolhouse in Casco that was to become a living history site.
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Medical examiner performing autopsy on woman’s body found in Lisbon pond
Lisbon police were alerted to the discovery of the 61-year-old woman in a pond off Potter Road.
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Maine Superior Court justice, Trump’s pick for federal bench, might not toe the party line
In at least two cases, decisions by Lance Walker likely displeased the president and Gov. LePage.
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L.L. Bean to court: Suit over return policy lacks footing, give it the boot
The plaintiff misunderstood the company’s change in practices and has suffered no injury because of it, the Freeport retailer argues in a motion for dismissal.
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Nearly 40 years after infant’s death in Brunswick, prosecutors argue that his father murdered him
The cause of Nathan Hagar’s death was initially classified as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, but Burton Hagar told more than a dozen people that he smothered his 4-month-old son.
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Waldoboro woman sues VA over death of father, 90, blaming change in meds
She says he died two weeks after a doctor took him off a low-dose opioid painkiller he had taken for 40 years.