Over 10 years, the reasons for the killings are often the same: Severe understaffing, lax oversight and gang violence.

Maine is the only state in the Northeast and one of only 16 states nationwide to have abolished or severely restricted parole ...

The man found guilty of killing Chantell Wilkes in Loveland in 2022 has been sentenced to a minimum of 58 years in prison.

Shawn Tobin Locklear Jr., 22, of Maxton, was sentenced Friday by U.S. District Judge Louise Flanagan. Last year, he pleaded guilty to using a gun during a crime of violence and possessing a machine ...

Ricky Wassenaar pleads not guilty to three Tucson prison murders despite confessing to media he killed sex offenders ...

A man was sentenced to 38 years in prison for the murder of his girlfriend. Jeremiah Godfrey was sentenced Thursday for killing Sherri Sweet on March 22 in their South Berwick home. Godfrey was also ...

Jeremiah Godfrey of South Berwick was sentenced on Friday to 38 years in prison for killing 37-year-old Sherri Sweet.

The executive order, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal ...

From March 2019 through April 2021, authorities say, members and associates of Faceworld used stolen cars to track down rival ...

The Maine Supreme Judicial Court will hear the appeal of a Monticello man convicted and sentenced to serve 55 years in prison in 2025 for the murder of his live-in girlfriend Kimberly Hardy.

On Tuesday, December 23, 2025, at approximately 8:57 AM, Southwest Harbor Police responded to a 911 call about an incident near 11 Big Rocks Road, Tremont. The caller reported finding two deceased ...

TREMONT — The two adults found dead in Tremont earlier this week have been identified, and their deaths have been ruled a murder-suicide. On Tuesday, just before 9 a.m., Southwest Harbor Police ...