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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PublishedMay 1, 2020
Armed man robs Portland 7-Eleven
No one was injured when a masked man brandished a handgun and robbed the 7-Eleven on Forest Avenue near the Westbrook line early Friday morning, police said.
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PublishedApril 29, 2020
Reopening plan triggers a flood of questions and confusion
A small category of businesses will be permitted to reopen Friday, but the state has yet to release details about the changes they must make to their operations.
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PublishedApril 28, 2020
Driver killed in Scarborough marsh crash was Old Orchard Beach teenager
Police said Christopher Thompson, 19, was the person inside a car that was discovered Monday overturned in the marsh near Pine Point Road.
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PublishedApril 27, 2020
Westbrook man accused of ramming car into Cumberland County Jail
Police say Muka Kabala drove to the jail around 11 p.m. Sunday and pushed another car into the building because he was upset that someone was being released on bail.
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PublishedApril 27, 2020
Driver killed when car flips into Scarborough marsh
Police are investigating the one-car crash on Pine Point Road that killed one person Monday morning.
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PublishedApril 23, 2020
Maine high court upholds sex crime convictions of defrocked priest
The justices affirm 10 of the 11 convictions against Ronald Paquin, 77, a former Catholic priest from Massachusetts, leaving his 16-year prison sentence unchanged.
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PublishedApril 22, 2020
Accidental shooting in Westbrook results in felony charges
Police say a man who accidentally shot himself faces drug and weapons charges, as well as a misdemeanor charge that he violated Maine’s stay-at-home order.
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PublishedApril 22, 2020
Two killed Wednesday in separate crashes on Maine roads
The first crash, along I-95 in Hampden, was attributed to black ice, while police in Berwick are still investigating the cause of the second fatality.
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PublishedApril 19, 2020
Mainers on the front lines
Here are the faces and voices of six Mainers working to protect their communities from the coronavirus.
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PublishedApril 17, 2020
On call with Pence, Sen. King calls administration’s failure to expand testing a ‘dereliction of duty’
The Maine senator, an independent, participated in a call with Democratic senators in which he reportedly told the vice president that he had “never been so mad about a phone call in my life.”
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