William Briggs, 61, fatally shot Peter Kolofsky, 46, while deer hunting in the Sebago woods n November 2011. In the courtroom this morning, Kolofsky’s widow addressed Briggs directly.

Eighth in a series profiling the candidates for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Maine Republican Olympia Snowe. A declaration by Matthew Dunlap’s young daughter pushed him to run for U.S. Senate. She told him that she wanted to live in her hometown of Old Town forever — a prospect that Dunlap says was […]

Ernest Brian Weidul is found guilty of manslaughter after getting into a 2010 fistfight with Roger Downs Jr.

The prosecutor in the Portland manslaughter trial describes the circumstances of Ernest Weidul’s death as ‘alcoholic anger run amok.’

The prosecution and defense offer different theories about how the fight between Ernest Weidul and Roger Downs Jr. took place and how Downs may have caught pneumonia.

Anthony Papile pleads guilty and says he doesn’t deserve forgiveness for killing Portland resident Krista Dittmeyer, 20.

Anthony Papile, 29, clubbed the Portland waitress in a plot to steal drugs and money and tossed her body in a pond.