Matt Byrne has covered crime and public safety for the Press Herald since 2016. It is his second beat since being hired at the Press Herald in late 2012, when he left the Boston Globe's suburban news bureau. Matt grew up outside Philadelphia, moved to Boston to attend Emerson College and now loves living in Maine. When he is not nerding out on court documents or listening to a police scanner, Matt loves to work on old cars, make things out of metal and try new craft beers. Offers to drive your race car, or news tips, are always welcome.
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PublishedJanuary 25, 2022
Review of police shootings focuses on need for more preventive mental health services
People who are shot by police are often in mental health crisis and armed, the Deadly Force Review Panel said. There are chances long before shootings to head off tragedy with help.
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PublishedJanuary 21, 2022
Conditions for youth at Long Creek have improved, corrections commissioner tells lawmakers
Commissioner Randall Liberty said his agency is pushing to hire more staff and prevent more eruptions of violence at the state’s juvenile lockup.
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PublishedJanuary 20, 2022
Corrections chief to tell lawmakers about state’s response to report critical of Long Creek
Commissioner Randall Liberty says some of the changes suggested in the report already have been adopted at Maine’s only youth prison.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2022
Portland police officer charged with assault in on-duty incident in May
Portland police refused to release any details of how the alleged assault occurred or how Christopher Crout came into contact with the victim.
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PublishedJanuary 19, 2022
Driver killed in overnight crash on Interstate 295 in Portland
The single-car crash was discovered Wednesday morning, Portland police said.
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PublishedJanuary 13, 2022
Man opened fire in Scarborough Walmart parking lot after being startled, police say
Bryan Johns was asleep in his vehicle when someone knocked on the window, startling him.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2022
South Portland hires new police chief from Massachusetts
Daniel J. Ahern, deputy chief if Chelmsford, Mass., will become South Portland’s third chief in three years when he starts on Feb. 1.
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PublishedJanuary 12, 2022
Police find Lubec woman dead in trunk, charge boyfriend with murder
Paul DeForest, 65, was arrested in Warrenton, Virginia, and is charged with killing his girlfriend, Eva Cox, 58.
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PublishedJanuary 9, 2022
No easy answers in a police officer’s 2007 fatal shooting of a Waldoboro 18-year-old
Natalie Jackson’s 18-year-old son, Gregori, was shot to death in 2007. The attorney general is close to releasing a report on his reexamination of the case.
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PublishedJanuary 7, 2022
York schools move to online learning as COVID cases ramp up
Concerned about staffing shortages, the superintendent said the district won’t return to in-person classes until after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
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