The lawsuit questions why districts can pay tuition to outside public and private schools, but are barred from paying public funding to religious schools.
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 congressional delegation says Iran situation fraught with danger
While the 4 members generally gave President Trump credit for halting a planned retaliatory airstrike, Sen. Angus King worries that the president could be boxed in by hawkish advisers.
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Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Prosecutor to seek life in prison for man convicted of murdering officer
Cpl. Eugene Cole’s brother says that with the guilty verdict Tuesday against John D. Williams, ‘Maybe some of the wounds can start healing.’
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Closing arguments postponed 1 day in murder trial of John D. Williams
The defense is considering calling a final witness, who would try to rebut the state’s reconstruction of the shooting that killed Cpl. Eugene Cole last year.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News, Uncategorized
Closing arguments pushed back a day in murder trial of John D. Williams
The defense is considering calling a final witness, who would try to rebut the state’s reconstruction of the shooting that killed Cpl. Eugene Cole last year.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Jury convicts Lewiston woman for health care fraud
Nancy Ludwig, 65, faces up to 10 years in federal prison.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
He was high when he killed a sheriff’s deputy. Jury will decide whether it was murder.
Experts trade testimony about how drugs affected John D. Williams’ state of mind at the time he shot Cpl. Eugene Cole. The defendant says he will not testify.
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Officer was on the ground before being shot to death, investigator says at trial
The state rests its case in the trial of John D. Williams, who is charged with murder in the death of Cpl. Eugene Cole.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Bloodstained police uniform, DNA evidence presented to jury in murder trial
Forensic testimony dominates the third day of the trial of John D. Williams, who is charged with murder in last year’s shooting death of Cpl. Eugene Cole.
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Judge denies mentally incompetent boy’s request for release from Long Creek
The 13-year-old is still detained because he has not been able to get into a residential treatment program.