A neighbor made an anonymous report that someone was burglarizing the home on West Pleasant Street.
Matt Byrne
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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Portage Lake woman dies in snowmobile accident
Denise Beaulieu was on a snowmobile on Carr Pond, when she hit a snowbank and went airborne.
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Battle is on to preserve lobster shipments from Maine to Europe
The state’s lobster industry and congressional delegation take steps to block Sweden’s push for an invasive-species listing by the European Union.
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Backlash from Brussels terrorism frustrates Muslims in Maine
Members of the Greater Portland community lament the national political response and ripples of fear.
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Gray-New Gloucester High School evacuated after bomb threat
A student discovered the word ‘bomb’ on a boys’ room wall and told school officials.
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A week after Portland slaying, police say they have yet to identify a suspect
The tenant at 88 Gilman St., where David Anderson was visiting when he was shot to death says the shooter fired through the apartment door.
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Two Belfast men charged with making meth
Edward Mylen, 37, and Michael Redding, 27, are charged in connection with an alleged lab at 354 High St. in Belfast.
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Automated bomb threat shuts down Cape Elizabeth schools
The threat was phoned in to the Pond Cove Elementary main office at 10:17 a.m., prompting an immediate evacuation before police and administrators dismissed classes early.
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Former Maine investment adviser pleads guilty in $1.15 million fraud scheme
Philip E. Moriarty II, who has homes in Scarborough and Northeast Harbor, pleads guilty to one count of wire fraud in a federal case in Chicago.
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Police to examine truck whose rider may have jumped to her death in The Forks
Kimberly Hill, 33, of Wiscasset, was a passenger in the moving pickup driven by her boyfriend, who has a history of accidents.