The N.H. man – a getaway driver – is one of four people implicated in the ring, whose members stand accused in a total of five bank robberies.
Scott Dolan
Maine murderer seeks shorter sentence based on drug use
Joel Hayden’s convictions should be reduced because he was ‘likely loaded’ on drugs and should have been charged with manslaughter, his attorney says.
Maine man appeals cold-case murder conviction
The state’s highest court hears arguments in the case of Jay Mercier, who was convicted in 2012 of killing Rita St. Peter 32 years prior to his trial.
Lawmakers back compromise on bigger raises for Maine judges
Pay would increase 4% in each of two years, in a state with judicial salaries ranked second-lowest in the nation.
S. Portland bank robber gets 13 years in prison
Joseph Morrill used a police detective’s stolen gun to hold up a bank and a convenience store.
Two injured in crash involving police cruiser in Scarborough
Police say it appears that a Volvo station wagon turned in front of the cruiser and was struck in a T-bone crash that rolled the Volvo.
Convicted felon who fired gun at Lewiston building sentenced to more than 6 years
Brunel Constant, 34, of Lewiston, was convicted after a two-day trial in federal court in Portland of a single count of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.
Maine high court to consider denying F. Lee Bailey’s return to law
The Board of Bar Examiners will argue that the celebrity defense attorney has yet to ‘own up’ to his past transgressions that led to him being disbarred in Florida in 2001 and Massachusetts in 2003.
Maine Supreme Court to hear appeal in New Gloucester double murder
Lawyers for Joel Hayden, 32, contend he should have been convicted of manslaughter instead of murder because of the ‘high dose of oxycodone and cocaine’ in his system.
Young, talented and committed to UMaine hockey
A seventh-grader who starts for the NYA varsity plans to be a Black Bear in six years.