James Sweeney was sentenced to 38 years in prison for beating Wendy Douglas with a baseball bat while she slept.
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New Vineyard brawl sends 2 to hospital, lands 1 in jail
A woman reported that her husband was attacking her father at their Route 27 residence.
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‘I should have stopped’: Sharon Carrillo told police she beat her daughter for months
Jurors in Sharon Carrillo’s murder trial hear recordings in which she admits to participating with her husband in the abuse that killed 10-year-old Marissa Kennedy.
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Waterboro woman found dead hours after booking into York County Jail
Kimberly Pierce, 35, who began serving a 60-day sentence Monday evening, was found unresponsive in her cell Tuesday morning.
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Portland woman agrees to settle lawsuit alleging Long Creek staff injured her son
Guards at the South Portland facility knocked out two of the 11-year-old’s teeth in 2017, the lawsuit contends.
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Sister of Portland man charged with murder recounts his racist comments as trial begins
Chelsey Cardilli testifies in the trial of Mark Cardilli Jr., saying her brother told her that Somali people are gang members, black people shot by police are at fault and Muslims are terrorists.
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Maine couple plead guilty to Farmington meth lab operation charges
Sentencing was delayed for both defendants Katherine and Douglas Theriault.
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Court orders new trial on 1 charge in man’s bizarre cyanide-suicide case
The former Windham man must still serve a 25-year sentence on other charges after being convicted of causing an English man’s suicide.
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Ten-year-old had bruises 2 days before she died, social worker says in mother’s trial
The social worker testifies that she saw bruises and cuts on the 10-year-old’s face but believed her parents when they said their daughter’s injuries were self-inflicted.
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Trial in fatal Portland shooting begins Monday
Mark Cardilli Jr. is charged with murder in the death of Isahak Muse, who was his younger sister’s boyfriend.