The Attorney General’s Office and an outside police agency are looking into a complaint filed by a Black Portland attorney.
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Man convicted in triple murder in Maine appeals to federal court
Thayne Ormsby, who was 20 at the time of the killings, has tried several times to have his conviction overturned or have his case reviewed.
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Two juvenile males arrested after Paris attack
A video of the attack was posted on Facebook and helped police identify the suspects.
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Winthrop man indicted on rape, kidnapping charges
Jon L. Westerlund, 35, was one of several area residents indicted last week by a Kennebec County grand jury.
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No one injured in 2 shootings in Portland
Portland police are looking for suspects in 2 separate shooting incidents on Sunday.
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Dover-Foxcroft police chief accused of domestic assault is released on bail
Ryan Reardon is charged with choking a woman with whom he’d had an affair.
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Prosecutor says murder defendant shot woman in Down East Maine over insults
Carine Reeves, the first person to go on trial for murder in Maine since the start of the pandemic, shot Sally Shaw because she’d insulted the mother of his children, Assistant Attorney General Megan Elam tells jurors.
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Dover-Foxcroft police chief arrested and charged in domestic assault
Dover-Foxcroft Police Chief Ryan Reardon is accused of trying to strangle a woman with whom he was having an affair.
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Maine police make arrest in decades-old cold-case killing
Kirt Damon Sr. of Stockton Springs is charged with murder in the beating death of a woman in 1984.
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Police say Greely High threat came from Tennessee teenager
Cumberland police say a 16-year-old from Tennessee was responsible for communicating a threat that prompted a shutdown of in-person classes at Greely High School last week.