Wiscasset Middle High School Principal Gina Stevens was placed on leave and faces possible firing after she was accused of several transgressions, including authorizing the installation of a hidden camera and mistreating students and staff.
Times Record News
Posted inLocal & State, Politics
Maine DHHS commissioner questioned about child deaths, caseworker complaints
Jeanne Lambrew acknowledges problems within the child protection office during testimony before the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee.
advertisement
Posted inLocal & State, News
State agency, legislative committee clash in supreme court hearing over records
Lawmakers on the Government Oversight Committee are appealing a lower court’s decision that barred them from access to confidential child protective records.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime
Judge denies request for new trial for man convicted of 1994 murder
The judge had agreed to consider a new trial after finding Foster Bates’ last attorney waited too long to request a hearing for new evidence in the murder and rape of Tammy Dickson. But the judge didn’t find the evidence strong enough to reopen the case.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, Schools and Education
Maine launches $1 million ad campaign to attract teachers amid shortage
The initiative is funded with pandemic relief money and quantifies for the first time the number of educator vacancies in Maine: over 850.
Posted inLocal & State
Maine homeless shelters warn of financial crisis
Six shelters around the state are facing a collective shortfall of about $4.1 million and at least one is in danger of closing.
Posted inLocal & State, Maine Crime, Morning Sentinel
Somerset officer found justified in shooting armed man in Norridgewock in 2021
Deputy Michael Lyman ‘reasonably believed’ that Trevor A. Caouette posed an ‘imminent threat of serious bodily injury or death’ before the officer shot and wounded the man who was pointing a handgun at police, the attorney general’s office concluded in a report.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Proposed rules would allow any commercial farm contaminated by PFAS to apply for financial assistance
Maine so far has focused on farms that were contaminated through the spreading of wastewater sludge.
Posted inLocal & State
Son helped save his brothers in New Gloucester fire, then ran back to try to save his dad
A neighbor says Lado Lodoka’s son kept going back into the smoking home until he found his father and dragged his body outside.
Posted inLocal & State
Father of Portland man appeals dismissal of lawsuit against city for Back Cove drowning
A U.S. District judge sided with the city and dismissed the case on Nov. 27. Now, John Cohen is asking the First Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider.