The case would allow sports betting in New Jersey casinos and tracks.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
November trial scheduled for sheriff’s deputy charged with abusing girls
Kenneth Hatch III of Whitefield has pleaded not guilty to 22 charges.
Lewiston man sentenced to 15 years for infant son’s death
Danny Adams had pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the suffocation death of his 14-week-old son.
Child sex charges, drug trafficking indictments handed up in Somerset County
The Somerset County grand jury brought charges against 24 people.
Kennebunk man sentenced to 2½ years for illegally possessing firearms
Justin Riggall, 37, was prohibited from having guns because of a 2012 domestic violence conviction in Maine.
Lincoln County deputy’s trial set for November in Augusta
Kenneth L. Hatch III faces 22 charges involving sexual abuse of girls and furnishing marijuana.
Maine Supreme Judicial Court upholds denial of murderer’s request for release from Riverview
Justices ruled that Mark I. Gessner, 53, of Waldoboro, ‘had not acknowledged his mental illness or participated meaningfully in treatment’ and therefore was not ready to be released.
Driver in deadly May 12 crash in Mount Vernon told police he ‘was the most sober’ of his group
Tyler Goucher, 21, of Wayne, faces manslaughter, aggravated assault, drunken driving charges after the death of Ethan J. Russell, 19, of Wayne.
Vassalboro woman charged after Augusta single-vehicle accident
Police say Melissa Ann Hunt, 27, crashed her truck Monday afternoon on Cross Hill Road and left the scene.
Five years ago, another trooper stopped a wrong-way driver, and recorded it
The incident occurred in Portland on June 29, 2012.