Joe Lawlor

Staff Writer

Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people. He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.

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Published
August 9, 2015

Search suspended after fourth day produces no results in Kimberly Moreau case

Maine State Police and the Oxford County Sheriff’s Office Sunday searched the Canton property purchased by Brian Enman in 2000.
Published
July 30, 2015

Maine Planned Parenthood says clinics don’t donate fetal tissue from abortions for research

But the Maine Right to Life Committee, which opposes legalized abortion, says it wants an investigation into how clinics in New England states handle fetal tissue.
Published
July 23, 2015

Mainers will see modest increases in ACA health insurance premiums next year

Competition for patients and a strong number of under-35 sign-ups help keep the average 2016 hikes as low as 0.5%.
Published
July 23, 2015

Tragic sinking of Portland trawler still vivid 50 years later

Eight people were killed when an old World War II torpedo became tangled in a fishing net and exploded.
Published
July 21, 2015

Press Herald sues to force state to identify schools that had chickenpox outbreaks

The Maine CDC has refused to release the names, citing privacy issues, but the newspaper says information about outbreaks of infectious diseases would help the public avoid exposure.
Published
July 17, 2015

Yarmouth Clam Festival carousel is ride operator’s latest to malfunction

The owner of Smokey’s Greater Shows and an employee were charged this month after two ride accidents at a Waterville carnival.
Published
July 16, 2015

New tool allows comparisons of Maine home health care agencies

Medicare’s five-star rating system will help consumers choose as demand for health care at home increases in the fast-graying state.
Published
July 16, 2015

100,000 expected to take in beauty, history of tall ships

The first of 12 vessels has already arrived for the weekend festival that will add another chapter to Portland’s nearly 400 years of maritime activity.
Published
July 14, 2015

Man gets nearly 8 years in prison in Maine for scheme to sell stolen N.C. Wyeth art

Four of six paintings stolen from Portland resident Joseph Soley in 2013 have been recovered, and Soley made a public plea for the return of the two missing works.
Published
July 12, 2015

Meet the small miracle that is Winslow’s Mason Lee

That scar on his chest – evidence of the latest of two heart surgeries – belies the thriving 8-year-old dynamo who’s beaten the odds.