Miranda Hopkins initially told police she “blacked out” and awoke to find her 7-week-old son cold and beaten.
Maine Crime
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St. Albans couple charged with arson of truck, police say
The couple is being held at Somerset County Jail and are alleged to have torched their pickup truck to collect insurance money.
Thorndike man, 33, hospitalized after being shot twice by state trooper
Stephen H. McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, says Eric Fitzpatrick is being treated for two gunshots wounds after he was shot by a state trooper.
Auburn man seeks dismissal of Alaska murder and rape charges
Attorneys for the former Fairbanks university student filed motions in his case Monday.
Pittston man pleads not guilty to sexual contact charges involving child
William T. Sevon, 46, was charged for crimes alleged to have occurred in 2011, and between 2017 and 2019.
Police follow leads in Old Port armed robbery, purse snatching
Portland police say a robbery at gunpoint earlier this month in the Old Port and an attempted purse-snatching in the same area Sunday evening are connected.
Police: Lisbon woman charged with OUI after crashing, fleeing
Jamie Levesque had been previously charged with drunken driving and bail conditions prohibited her from having alcohol.
Little still known about why officer shot man in Augusta
Augusta Police Chief Jared Mills said no new information was available on Monday about the Sunday morning incident.
Waterville man indicted on charge of murdering girlfriend Melissa Sousa
Nicholas Lovejoy, 28, is charged with murdering his girlfriend and mother of their children, Melissa Sousa, on Oct. 22 in Waterville.
Maine man convicted of murder for shooting sister-in-law 10 times
Renee Henneberry Clark of Hampden had a protection order against her estranged husband and a criminal trespass order against his brother, Philip Clark, who killed her.