Marcel Lagrange pleaded guilty Monday to murdering two people in front of their children in downtown Westbrook in 2023, reversing a previous not criminally responsible plea.
The man who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and trying to kill a 13-year-old girl in Auburn in 2022 has been sentenced to 56 years in prison.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has denied an appeal from a Holden man who was found guilty of hitting an 87-year-old pedestrian in Brewer while driving home drunk from a bar in 2023.
In a letter to the Cumberland County Sheriff, Attorney General Aaron Frey determined that the officers reasonably believed they were acting in defense of themselves and others when they shot at 57-year-old Arthur Lefebvre.
The U.S. Justice Department says 24-year-old Justin Leonard pleaded guilty in federal court in Bangor this week to charges of producing and possessing child pornography.
Repayment plans are supposed to help public housing tenants avoid eviction. In Maine, these deals have put evictions on their permanent records, even if they’ve fulfilled all the terms and were never actually evicted.
The claim says Neal Gumpel, who was a minor at the time, was visiting a relative at Maine Maritime Academy in 1974 when he was sexually abused by Father Roy Drake.
The Maine Attorney General’s Office confirmed to WABI on Monday that they have filed a motion to try Deven Young, 17, of Frankfort, as an adult for the murder of Sunshine Stewart, 48.
New information from court records show a man who’s charged with manslaughter and drunk driving in connection with a fatal hit-and-run crash in Albion that killed two boys tried to blame it on someone else.
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has ordered a Bar Harbor hotel owner to pay $46,000 in penalties for the collapse of a canopy that killed a Florida man earlier this year.
