Bangor Daily News

The man who was arrested says the officer got the wrong guy. The disagreement was at the center of a three-hour hearing at the Capital Judicial Center in Augusta on Wednesday, in an unusual case of alleged mistaken identity that has invoked broader issues of race and policing.

A Stockton Springs mother was sentenced to 47 years in prison Tuesday at the Waldo Judicial Center for beating her 3½-year-old son, Maddox Williams, to death in June 2021.

The number of hate crimes reported in Maine dropped slightly last year after exploding in 2020, but a greater portion in the state target LGBTQ residents than in the rest of the nation, according to new data released by the FBI.

A pilot test of buoys made from fungal root networks showed promise as an effective and less wasteful alternative to plastic. Now, a cadre of Maine ocean farmers is hoping to expand prototype testing next year.

The deepening staffing crisis at Maine’s only youth prison has grown so dire that teens are routinely locked in their cells during the day because there aren’t enough workers to supervise them, according to labor and watchdog groups.

With an economy built on union jobs, Jay was once the epitome of a Democratic bastion. Then former President Donald Trump came along. The Androscoggin Mill, which once employed 1,500 people, is shutting down next year and will lay off 230 after a massive digester explosion in April 2020.

Mark Pearce, speaking in front of the House Education and Labor Committee on Wednesday, said that the company’s actions must be “looked at very carefully,” after Chipotle was accused of blacklisting its Augusta workers who had supported unionization efforts.

So far this year, 15 people have died in Maine county jails and prisons, 10 of them in the past four months. That number is higher than any yearly total since 2014, according to a group that recently began tracking in-custody deaths, putting this year on track to set a deadly record.

Two Maine elected officials were on the Oath Keepers membership list, in addition to one Maine law enforcement officer and two first responders who were not named in a report that raises concerns of extremism in military and law enforcement circles.

With the blessing of E.B. White’s family, the fair, which starts Thursday, has built a new permanent exhibit that recreates a barnyard scene out of Charlotte’s Web, White’s beloved 1952 children’s book that was partially inspired by the fair.