An effort is under way to start a specialty court in Cumberland County for defendants with mental illness and substance abuse problems — possibly as soon as October.

Occupy Maine attempts to expose flaws in the city’s arguments that the group can’t be in a park at night.

The driving-to-endanger charge against a Shapleigh firefighter will be dismissed after a year if she isn’t accused of any criminal conduct in the meantime.

The charge against Shapleigh volunteer firefighter Natasha Kinney, 31, will be dismissed as long as she isn’t accused of any criminal conduct in the meantime.

Leroy Dunn is also currently serving a three-year sentence for drug trafficking, and threatened Gov. Paul LePage last year.

James Rivera — who scammed Maine residents out of tens of thousands of dollars — was sentenced today in California on fraud charges.