One of the Portland charter school’s students, 16-year-old Justin Woodbury, is accused of email threats that shut down unrelated schools in Windham and Raymond.

The Supreme Judicial Court rejected an appeal by the bus company seeking to overturn last year’s jury verdict in favor of Romanian student Monica Semian.

Richard Lobor escaped Sudan and had high hopes when he arrived in Maine. But his assimilation deteriorated, he got in legal trouble, and, at age 23, he was killed.

Hickox is among a group of medical workers honored by the magazine, including other volunteers like her from Doctors Without Borders as well as medical workers from local communities in West Africa.

Noting that its opinion applies only to the beach in Kennebunkport, the court allows the town to argue for public access on a parcel-by-parcel basis.