Violent incidents in Bowdoin and Westbrook have been used by advocates on both sides of the gun control debate to argue that the current laws don’t work as intended.
John Terhune
Staff Writer
As a member of METLN's quick strike investigations team, John writes about everything from gun legislation to housing. He previously spent a year on a deep-dive investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting as part of the Press Herald's collaboration with Frontline and Maine Public. A Waterville native, John has degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and spends his free time going to the movies, practicing the guitar and defusing arguments at men's league soccer games.
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Contamination warnings issued for 5 Maine beaches as Labor Day weekend arrives
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found elevated levels of fecal bacteria at beaches in York, Kennebunk, Kennebunkport, South Portland and Camden.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Westbrook man charged with killing couple in front of their young children enters insanity plea
Court records indicate Marcel LaGrange, 24, told detectives that he shot 2 people. He’s now facing several charges in the deaths of Brittney Cockrell, 37, and Michael Hayter, 41.
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Judge sets $250,000 cash bail for man accused of driving into 4 Maine state troopers
Tyler Croston, 24, was not required to enter a plea Wednesday on charges that he hit and and injured 4 state troopers when he drove off a road in Hollis.
Posted inMaine, Politics
ACLU, Maine officials reach deal on lawyers for poor
The ACLU of Maine sued the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services in March 2022, saying it was failing to provide effective legal representation to poor Mainers.
Posted inMaine, News
Man killed in Scarborough car crash
Police say Mudimbiyi Kalombo, 40, was found unresponsive in his car and later died at the hospital.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Judge vacates manslaughter conviction of Portland man who killed sister’s boyfriend
Mark Cardilli Jr., who confessed to shooting 22-year-old Isahak Muse in 2019, will get a new trial after a judge ruled Tuesday that Cardilli’s attorneys failed to properly make a self-defense argument.
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Body of missing South Portland woman found in Caribou
Sonja Knight, 49, was reporting missing on July 27. Her family members say they don’t know why she would have been in northern Maine. The medical examiner’s office is working to determine a cause of death.
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Lobsterman discovers body in ocean off Addison
A Jonesport lobsterman on Monday spotted the body about 7 miles from where Tylar Michaud, 18, disappeared last month.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Passenger in fatal Castine crash pleads not guilty to ‘co-conspirator’ charges
At her arraignment Thursday morning, Noelle Tavares, 21, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, denied responsibility for the December 2022 crash that killed 4 of her Maine Maritime Academy classmates.