Kandee Weyland is accused of fatally stabbing Scott Weyland in front of their children after learning that her ex-husband was given custody of the children.
Maine Crime
Police, crime and courts news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Maine man accused of having sex with dog and then killing it
Thomas Wentworth says he’s innocent and his girlfriend made up the story.
Mercer man charged with eluding an officer, possessing heroin
Michael Anthony Dellarma, 29, was arrested after a minute-long chase in a ‘very obvious attempt to elude’ police and was discovered to be in possession of heroin laced with fentanyl and used needles.
Deceased TV weatherman Tom Johnston would have been charged in sexual assault, police say
Oxford County Sheriff Wayne J. Gallant says he thinks Johnston was aware that he was a suspect in the sexual assault before he died of hypothermia and self-inflicted wounds.
Leroy Smith III deemed competent to stand trial in slaying of his father
A Superior Court justice ruled earlier this week that the state has provided enough evidence to prove Smith is competent to face a murder charge in the Gardiner killing.
Auburn man gets 8-year sentence for distributing heroin
Darnell Robinson sold $1,000 worth of heroin to an undercover witness, prosecutors say.
State funding for court-appointed attorneys runs out
Lawyers representing indigent defendants for the rest of the fiscal year will have to wait until July 1 to be paid.
Two people charged with dealing heroin in Biddeford
A man from Connecticut and a woman from Biddeford are arrested after an eight-month investigation.
Phoning girlfriend from Augusta jail costs inmate 20 months
Derek D. Taylor, 33, of Norridgewock, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Augusta to violating conditions of release.
A good bad year: Doping’s effect on harness racing
The 2015 spike in horse-drugging cases cast a pall over Maine’s horse racing industry.