The candidates say they will reform the criminal justice system, focusing on changes to bail and proposing specialty courts.
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Posted inLocal & State, Schools and Education
Cumberland County school chiefs respond to DeVos statements on immigrant students
Superintendents of eight school districts pledge to follow federal law that guarantees public education to all students, regardless of immigration status.
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Posted inMaine Crime
Police looking for suspects in stabbing on Standish ATV trail
A man found lying in a road with stab wounds says two men riding all-terrain vehicles attacked him on a nearby trail.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Sheriff charges two with theft of bottles and cans from Baldwin charity drive
Returnables were swiped from a ‘Cans for a Cure’ donation site over the last two weeks.
Posted inLocal & State
For one Maine deputy, lessons in service and solidarity
For an entire generation of police, the killing of Cpl. Eugene Cole is a sobering reminder of what’s at stake and why they train.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Authorities release mugshot of Westbrook man they say caused drug scare at jail
Brent Gross, 29, was being booked into the Cumberland County Jail when fentanyl he had on him went airborne, officials say.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Cumberland County deputy captures armed fugitive
Randall Lee Marsh, 33, had eluded authorities for five days prior to his arrest Saturday night.
Posted inFeature Obituary, Life & Culture
Feature obituary: Wayne Buhelt, 80, retired from Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office
He was inspired to go into law enforcement by a trooper he met after surviving a car accident in the mid-1960s.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, News
Nearly 40 years after infant’s death in Brunswick, prosecutors argue that his father murdered him
The cause of Nathan Hagar’s death was initially classified as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, but Burton Hagar told more than a dozen people that he smothered his 4-month-old son.
Posted inLocal & State
Casco man seriously injured in Harrison crash
Deputies believe speed and alcohol were factors in the Wednesday night crash.