The ACLU of Maine sued the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services in March 2022, saying it was failing to provide effective legal representation to poor Mainers.
John Terhune
Staff Writer
As a member of METLN's quick strike investigations team, John writes about everything from gun legislation to housing. He previously spent a year on a deep-dive investigation of the Lewiston mass shooting as part of the Press Herald's collaboration with Frontline and Maine Public. A Waterville native, John has degrees from Middlebury College and Boston University and spends his free time going to the movies, practicing the guitar and defusing arguments at men's league soccer games.
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Man killed in Scarborough car crash
Police say Mudimbiyi Kalombo, 40, was found unresponsive in his car and later died at the hospital.
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Prosecutors to appeal judge’s decision to vacate Portland man’s manslaughter conviction
Mark Cardilli Jr., who admitted to shooting his sister’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Isahak Muse, in 2019, was freed on $20,000 cash bail Friday and will get a new trial if the state’s appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court is rejected.
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Man convicted of aggravated assault in Riverton shooting seeks new trial
Abdihamit Ali, 23, was scheduled to be sentenced Friday morning but the hearing was delayed after his attorneys petitioned the court for a new trial.
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Bomb threats disrupt Walgreens stores across Maine
The threats were quickly deemed not credible, according to police in Portland and Windham.
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Judge vacates manslaughter conviction of Portland man who killed sister’s boyfriend
Mark Cardilli Jr., who confessed to shooting 22-year-old Isahak Muse in 2019, will get a new trial after a judge ruled Tuesday that Cardilli’s attorneys failed to properly make a self-defense argument.
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Body of missing South Portland woman found in Caribou
Sonja Knight, 49, was reporting missing on July 27. Her family members say they don’t know why she would have been in northern Maine. The medical examiner’s office is working to determine a cause of death.
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Lobsterman discovers body in ocean off Addison
A Jonesport lobsterman on Monday spotted the body about 7 miles from where Tylar Michaud, 18, disappeared last month.
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Passenger in fatal Castine crash pleads not guilty to ‘co-conspirator’ charges
At her arraignment Thursday morning, Noelle Tavares, 21, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, denied responsibility for the December 2022 crash that killed 4 of her Maine Maritime Academy classmates.
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Bath native, AI entrepreneur accused of swindling investors
Michael Brackett was arrested Tuesday on wire and securities fraud charges after he allegedly lied to investors about the financial health of his tech startup, Centricity Inc.