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Published
April 19, 2023

Windham man pleads not guilty to charges from fatal Turner crash

Curtis Randy Fogg, 34, faces manslaughter and five other charges from a grand jury indictment.
Published
April 13, 2023

York County courts begin moving into new judicial center in Biddeford

The new $65 million York Judicial Center replaces courthouses in Biddeford, Alfred, Springvale and York.
Published
March 21, 2023

Study: Young adults are overrepresented in Maine’s criminal justice system

A report from the University of Southern Maine's Catherine E. Cutler Institute calls for expanding diversion and treatment-based criminal justice programs.
Published
March 19, 2023

South Portland mail carrier charged in dark web drug trafficking case

New York prosecutors say Katie Montgomery offered FireBunnyUSA advice as it shipped illegal drugs through the postal service.
Published
February 1, 2023

Gov. Mills nominates York County judge for seat on state’s top court

Superior Court Justice Wayne R. Douglas of Old Orchard Beach previously served as former Gov. Angus King's chief legal adviser before becoming a judge in 2002.

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Published
January 4, 2023

Former Brunswick councilor pleads not guilty to child porn charges

An attorney representing Christopher Watkinson claimed Wednesday that the former Brunswick town councilor had accidentally accessed three explicit images in June 2021 and intended to turn them over to authorities.
Published
December 1, 2022

Judge denies alleged sex offender’s request for new lawyer in decade-old case

Eric Bard, formerly of Sidney, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for allegedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old in 2011 and 2012. The conviction was later overturned, and he now faces a new trial.
Published
November 14, 2022

Maine AG says new DNA tests insufficient to overturn 34-year-old murder case

Attorney General Aaron Frey says the results do not shake his confidence in the state's conviction of Dennis Dechaine in Sarah Cherry's 1988 killing.
Published
November 6, 2022

DNA testing excludes Dennis Dechaine from some key crime scene evidence

A lawyer for Dechaine, who was convicted of murdering 12-year-old Sarah Cherry 34 years ago, says he will ask for a new trial based on state-of-the-art DNA tests.
Published
October 20, 2022

Jury finds Randolph man not guilty of sexually assaulting child

Nathaniel R. Dillon, 31, acquitted on all four counts of gross sexual assault for incidents alleged by a girl who was 10 and 11 years old at the time.