Brandon M. Rimes, 26, of Fairfield, was ordered to spend eight months behind bars, and to pay for a couple’s home security system, for burglarizing an Oakland home on Dec. 6.

Joann C. Rittall, 43, used the personal data of more than 20 people to fraudulently file federal income tax returns claiming refunds in their names.

A bronze statue honoring Melville Weston Fuller, former chief justice of the United States, was installed Wednesday at the Kennebec County Courthouse.

Matthew Partridge entered a guilty plea this morning to manslaughter in the shooting death of South China resident Justin V. Smith and was sentenced to 25 years in prison, all but 15 suspended.

Matthew Partridge, 30, of Winslow is expected to plead guilty today to manslaughter in the shooting death of 26-year-old Justin V. Smith of South China.

Stephen B. Cormier, 57, has been judged incompetent to stand trial on two arson charges related to the March destruction of an apartment house.

But the man who lived in the woods by himself for almost three decades probably won’t be charged in hundreds of other burglaries because of the statute of limitations.

A Winslow man has been charged with murder in the death of Justin Smith, who was shot outside You Know Who’s Pub in December

‘First of all, we don’t have to triple lock all of our windows and doors,’ says Garry Hollands, whose family owns a cabin on Little North Pond.