Jeffrey Shedd sends a letter to a school community embroiled in controversy over notes alleging there is a ‘rapist in our school,’ saying the 3 students who left the notes ‘made a really bad choice.’
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray is an arts and culture 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. Her current beat is her favorite yet, and she loves the stories that take her to behind the scenes to an artist studio or theater backstage. Outside of work, 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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Maine’s highest court considers whether boy’s detention at Long Creek violated his rights
The 14-year-old boy, found mentally incompetent to stand trial, was held at the state’s juvenile detention center off and on for 3 years.
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Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Police work on video: Portland patrol officers now wearing body cameras
The city tested the cameras in a pilot program last year and recently purchased equipment to outfit its roughly 120 patrol officers.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine’s high court upholds town ownership of beach in Kennebunkport
The town and nearly 2 dozen property owners have been waging a legal battle over control of Goose Rocks Beach for 10 years.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Westbrook man will serve 30 months for hit-and-run
Clemente Hernandez pleaded guilty this summer to aggravated assault, reckless conduct and leaving the scene of an accident.
Posted inLocal & State, Uncategorized
Maine governor has granted 2 pardons to noncitizens
The state had received more than 80 petitions for executive clemency as of August, and Gov. Janet Mills had granted four pardons by the end of that month.
Posted inLocal & State, Uncategorized
‘It’s our last hope’: Maine man deported to Cambodia seeks gubernatorial pardon
Some advocates see executive clemency as a political tool to protest federal immigration priorities, but legal experts say it might not be enough to bring Chamroeun Pheng home.
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Repairs begin at USM after burst pipe closes dining hall, bookstore, other facilities
University officials still do not know what caused the pipe to rupture over the weekend.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Reports of gunfire and naked man in street lead to 4 arrests in Casco
A man is recovering from gunshot wounds after he tells Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies that he was taken at gunpoint from his home in Naples.
Posted inLocal & State, Outdoors, Uncategorized
History of hunting deaths invites question of reform
Since 1988, three women were fatally shot on their own properties by hunters who didn’t require permission to be there. Does Maine law need to change?