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...

Lisa McDonald faces a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of 47-year-old Carlos Ramos of Portland.   A woman accused in the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend pleaded not guilty to manslaughter this afternoon.   Lisa McDonald, 48, is accused in the...

Sex-party gunman appeals case over judge’s instructions to jury   Jurors were not informed of the proper standard of proof, says the shooter, who claims he thought a gun was unloaded. Maine’s highest court heard an appeal Thursday that centered on jury...