Emily covers courts for the Press Herald. Before moving to Maine in March 2022, she spent nearly three years in West Virginia, reporting on the southern coalfields, local and state government for West Virginia Public Broadcasting and Mountain State Spotlight, a nonprofit newsroom. Hailing from the upper Midwest, Emily cut her teeth covering city government for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota and is a graduate of the University of Minnesota's Twin Cities campus. When she's not working, Emily's usually reading (and is always on the hunt for good book recommendations).
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PublishedApril 24, 2024
Portland attorney nominated to become federal judge
Stacey Neumann has been nominated to fill an upcoming vacancy in the U.S. District Court when Chief Judge Jon Levy retires in May.
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PublishedApril 23, 2024
State police investigating inmate’s suicide at Wiscasset jail
Two Bridges Regional Jail confirmed a resident died Sunday morning, but released no other information pending the investigation by the Maine State Police.
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PublishedApril 19, 2024
‘No way of knowing’ whether new DNA evidence in Dechaine case was actually from murder, prosecutors say
Experts for the state testify that there is no way to determine whether the DNA came from the scene of Sarah Cherry’s 1988 murder, saying it could just be contamination from one of the many people who handled the evidence over the years.
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PublishedApril 18, 2024
Dechaine defense attorneys say new DNA results point to unknown suspect in 1988 killing
Dennis Dechaine is making a bid for a new trial after spending 36 years in prison for the murder of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry.
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PublishedApril 18, 2024
State says it’s the rightful owner of sunken ship near Bar Harbor
The state is intervening in a lawsuit after a Maine company asked a federal judge to ‘arrest’ a sunken ship from the 1800s that it wants to salvage.
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PublishedApril 18, 2024
Dennis Dechaine appears in court for 2-day hearing for new trial request
Dechaine, who was convicted in 1989 of killing Sarah Cherry, will be in court Thursday and Friday in Rockland to ask for a new trial based on new DNA evidence.
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PublishedApril 10, 2024
Prosecutors, defense agree there’s only ‘circumstantial’ evidence in deadly 2016 shooting
A dozen jurors started deliberating Wednesday afternoon about whether Aristotle Stilley shot David Anderson and Abdirahman Abdullahi.
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PublishedApril 9, 2024
Prosecutors say phone records place shooting suspect near site of 2016 killing
The records are a crucial part of the state’s case against Aristotle Stilley; prosecutors have few other pieces of physical evidence directly tying him to the death of 36-year-old David Anderson in 2016.
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PublishedApril 9, 2024
Man settles sexual abuse lawsuit against Maine’s Catholic church as dozens more await ruling
The man had alleged he was abused in 1948, when he was an eighth-grader in Rumford, by the Rev. Lucien Joseph Mandeville. The terms of the settlement have not been released.
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PublishedApril 5, 2024
Lead detective takes stand in trial over 2016 Portland shooting
Aristotle Stilley, the man accused of killing David Anderson and wounding Abdirahman Abdullah barely came up in detective Jeffrey Tully’s three hours of testimony on Friday.
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