Anie Graham’s father says the family tried to get her help, but ‘every system we have in place failed our daughter,’ who took her life this week.
Megan Gray
Megan Gray is a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails, lawsuits and U.S. Supreme Court cases. Her favorite stories are the ones that help us learn more about each other and the varied lives we lead in this expansive state. She likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
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Parents’ concerns prompt switch to organic pesticide at Freeport schools
The district had planned to use a synthetic spray on browntail moth infestations in trees near athletic fields.
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Police say student who brought airsoft gun to Westbrook school won’t be charged
An alert was issued that prompted a lockdown at four local schools; it was lifted after about an hour.
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Deering High senior makes a very public musical ‘promposal’
Aiming for something original, Katie McCabe enlisted her band – most of it, at least – to ask a friend to her senior prom.
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Naples man who fled to U.S. 20 years ago is deported to Guatemala
The wife of Otto Morales-Caballeros has applied for a passport so she can go see her husband as they try to obtain legal status for him.
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‘I’m never going to stop fighting,’ Maine woman vows as husband’s deportation looms
Otto Morales-Caballeros of Naples has lived in the United States for 20 years since fleeing violence in his native Guatemala as a teenager.
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Undocumented Maine immigrant, in U.S. for 20 years, now close to deportation
Federal officials had allowed Otto Morales-Caballeros of Naples to stay here, then President Trump’s tightened policy led to his arrest.
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More homeless escape streets as Portland opens 30 new apartments
Huston Commons is the city’s third ‘housing first’ facility, based on a national model that provides homes so people can then deal with factors contributing to their homelessness.
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May Day rally in Portland takes aim at Trump immigration policies
More than 200 people turn out to protest detentions like that of Otto Morales-Caballeros of Naples, who was arrested on his way to work last month.
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Plentiful precipitation officially ends drought in Maine
Above-average rainfall this month, coupled with the melting of a large snowpack, helps ease the groundwater drop-off that plagued much of Maine since last year.