Kandee Weyland Collind will be sentenced for stabbing Scott Weyland in 2017.
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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Student charged in fatal crash near Bug Light Park in 2018
William Blanchard of Gorham, now 19, was driving the car that crashed near the entrance to the South Portland park, killing a fellow student at Southern Maine Community College.
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Judge’s decision allowing abortion gag rule in Maine is put on hold within hours
U.S. District Judge Lance Walker said the Trump administration’s rule could take effect in Maine, but that was halted by an appeals court hours later.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Federal judge allows ‘gag rule’ on abortion referrals to take effect in Maine
Maine Family Planning and other abortion providers are challenging the rule in court.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Westbrook man pleads guilty to bank robberies
The prosecutor’s office says Aaron West, 38, robbed a bank in Portland while free on bail on a similar charge.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Former Kennebunk teacher who was acquitted of sex crimes plans to sue RSU 21
The Maine Human Rights Commission dismissed a complaint by Jill Lamontagne, who contends the district retaliated against her for reporting concerns about students harassing teachers.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Biddeford man sentenced to 9 years in sex trafficking case
Isaac Suero, 23, conspired to to have a 15-year-old victim engage in prostitution, the U.S. Attorney’s Office says.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
Fight over state funding for religious schools heads to federal appeals court
Judge D. Brock Hornby rules that Maine education money cannot pay tuition to religious schools in communities without state-funded schools of their own, but acknowledges an inevitable appeal.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Truck driver’s appeal asks: Is taking blood constitutional in fatal OUI cases?
Maine’s highest court wrestles with warrantless blood draws as a driver convicted in a double-fatal crash claims unreasonable search and seizure.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Medical examiner to be deposed on autopsy change in Windham murder case
Dr. Mark Flomenbaum prompted a mistrial in a murder case earlier this year when he changed his description of the angle at which Alicia Gaston of Windham was shot in 2016.