James Pearson, an 82-year-old Christmas tree farmer, was slain outside his home last month.
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Maine’s top court upholds conviction of Jay man who killed his girlfriend
James Sweeney was sentenced to 38 years in prison for beating Wendy Douglas with a baseball bat while she slept.
Auburn man seeks dismissal of Alaska murder and rape charges
Attorneys for the former Fairbanks university student filed motions in his case Monday.
Fight over tools preceded fatal Maine shooting, priest testifies
Philip Clark is on trial for murder in the death of his sister-in-law, Renee Henneberry Clark.
Maine Compass: Domestic abuse destroys lives even when it doesn’t end them
All intimate-partner violence takes a toll, and stopping it requires seeing it for what it is.
Maine Compass: Community accountability is key to ending domestic violence
Abuse will escalate if people who know and care about abusers excuse their behavior or try to ‘avoid taking sides.’
Portland man charged with murder in neighbor’s beating death
A 63-year-old man died Sunday, more than a month after he sustained critical injuries in an assault police say was carried out by his neighbor.
Trial set for man charged with murder in 2018 Bangor shooting death
F Daly, who is originally from Boston, has pleaded not guilty to intentional or knowing murder.
Wiscasset woman to appeal murder conviction in death of 4-year-old girl
Shawna Gatto was found guilty in April of murdering 4-year-old Kendall Chick and was sentenced in June to 50 years in prison.
Canadian police confirm sightings of suspects in killings of U.S. citizen, others
They say suspects in the slaying of an American woman, her Australian boyfriend and another man have been spotted twice.