The $142 million renovation of the Maine Correctional Center in Windham came mostly to an end Wednesday after 5 years of construction.
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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Investigators believe driver in fatal crash went wrong way on Bucknam Road off-ramp
Police continue to investigate why Nancy Ezhaya of Yarmouth was driving in the wrong direction on Interstate 295 when she hit another vehicle in a crash that killed both drivers and injured a passenger.
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Lawsuit accuses bishop of Diocese of Portland of facilitating sexual abuse
The suit alleges that Bishop Robert Deeley was one of three high-ranking members of the Catholic Church who were negligent in allowing a high school administrator in Massachusetts to sexually abuse minors for several years starting in 2011.
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Court grants new life to lawsuit challenging Maine’s vaccine mandate for health care workers
Three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out a legal challenge to the state’s COVID-19 mandate for health care workers.
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Deering teen who ran away found safe
Vinny Rivard, 14, has been returned to his family after running away Sunday night, police announced Thursday night.
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Proposal would leave 48 staff vacancies unfilled at Cumberland County jail
The jail workers’ union calls the budget plan to leave out funding for the positions ‘obtuse and counterintuitive.’
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April shooting was self-inflicted, South Portland police say
A 911 transcript obtained by the Press Herald provides few details about an April 12 shooting on B Street, which police have stopped investigating.
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Burglary suspect steals police cruiser and flees scene, police say
After Alexis N. Irving, 29, managed to slip from custody late Sunday night, South Portland police used the stolen cruiser’s GPS system to track her to a home in Biddeford.
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Biddeford man pleads not guilty to assault charge in Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection
Christopher Maurer is accused of hitting, screaming at and making obscene gestures toward Capitol police officers before he was pepper-sprayed and left the area.
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Cumberland County jail lifts intake restrictions
Nearly 8 months after the Cumberland County jail closed its doors to most arrests, Sheriff Kevin Joyce announced Thursday that he had lifted intake restrictions.