Advocates for sexual abuse victims on Tuesday called for the removal of a top official in the Greek Orthodox church in New England, alleging he was “at least grossly negligent” in supervising a priest who was convicted last year of assaulting a boy in Maine.  ...

A Vermont man, who as a teenager was an altar server at a Bangor church, has sued in Penobscot County Superior Court the former Greek Orthodox priest convicted of sexually assaulting him, his supervisors and the church community he served.   Adam Metropoulos, 53,...

A Maine State Prison inmate serving a 60-year sentence for the 1986 murder of his grandfather has sued the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland for sexual abuse he says he suffered at the hands of two priests, dating back to the late 1970s.   Jeffrey...

After serving 28 years of a 50-year prison term, convicted murderer Frank D. Fournier was resentenced Tuesday and will be released at the end of the week after the FBI’s analysis of evidence used to convict him was revealed to be potentially flawed. Fournier, now 70,...

 Maine’s top court has refused to overturn a murder conviction in a case where the prosecutor admitted he likely tried to annoy the defense lawyer by feigning sleep during his closing.   The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled on Tuesday that there was no...

A Greene man is claiming Lowe's Home Center stores in Auburn and Augusta wouldn't hire him because he has cancer.   An investigator at the Maine Human Rights Commission who researched the man's claim concluded there were reasonable grounds to believe that Lowe's...

The Zoning Board of Appeals voted 3-1 Monday night to revoke an after-the-fact permit for a marijuana growing operation near the middle of Poland Spring Country Estates because it is a commercial enterprise in a rural residential zone. Derick Erickson, who was issued...

A Maine judge and former prosecutor said in court Wednesday that he didn't remember gesturing or mouthing answers in view of jurors at the end of a murder trial in 2012.   Buddy Robinson takes notes Tuesday in Androscoggin County Superior Court during his motion...

Linda Dolloff, the Standish woman convicted of beating her husband with a baseball bat, also alleges the judge erred in allowing certain evidence and statements at her trial.   Maine’s highest court focused on allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in the appeal...