Megan Gray is a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails, lawsuits and U.S. Supreme Court cases. Her favorite stories are the ones that help us learn more about each other and the varied lives we lead in this expansive state. She likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
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PublishedMarch 15, 2020
Coming together in faith even as a virus pulls communities apart
Religious leaders in Greater Portland are finding ways to foster togetherness as the coronavirus pandemic forces them to limit or even cancel physical services.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2020
Courts cut back schedules, trials because of coronavirus
Jury trials and grand jury proceedings will be postponed in both state and federal courts through May 1.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2020
Lawmakers urged to repeal provision allowing secrecy in police use of surveillance tools
Two legislators introduced the measure after the Maine Sunday Telegram reported that state police are using a provision in Maine law to conceal whether they are using technologies capable of mass surveillance of citizens.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2020
Bowdoinham teenager sentenced to 27 years for killing his grandmother
Investigators believe Dominic Sylvester, 18, beat his grandmother to death with a stick or club in the mobile home they shared.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2020
Maine attorney general joins other states in comment on e-cigarette regulation
More than 2 dozen attorneys general have asked the Food and Drug Administration to strengthen its guidance on enforcement.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2020
Marissa Kennedy’s mother gets 48 years for the 10-year-old’s murder
The 35-year-old mother was convicted in December of depraved indifference murder.
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PublishedFebruary 14, 2020
Man in critical condition after being shot at Walmart in Scarborough
Police say the shooter and a female who was with him knew the man who was wounded in the store’s the parking lot, which was cordoned off with crime scene tape and scoured by investigators, including state police detectives.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2020
Defrocked priest appeals conviction for sex crimes in Maine
Last year a judge ordered Ronald Paquin to serve 16 years in prison for sexually abusing a boy on trips to Maine in the 1980s.
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PublishedFebruary 7, 2020
Prosecutor drops OUI case against longtime Biddeford school bus driver
Richard Tanguay will return to work immediately, the superintendent said Friday, after breath and urine tests revealed no evidence of alcohol or drugs.
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PublishedFebruary 5, 2020
Contractor charged with manslaughter in worker’s death could go to jail for bail violations, judge warns
Shawn Purvis, who is facing criminal charges for a worker’s death on a roofing job in 2018, was in court Wednesday for a hearing about his alleged bail violations.
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