Paul Violette, 61, served less than 20 months for stealing as much as $230,000 in public funds.

It has been a little-understood crime. But that has started to change.

He is accused of driving while intoxicated when he struck a family on bicycles.

Justices order authorities to release the records in a Biddeford murder case, rejecting the state’s long-standing policy to withhold them.

Meanwhile, police identify a Lebanon man killed Tuesday in a two-vehicle accident on Route 202 in Sanford.

A collision between a pickup and an SUV kills a man in Sanford, while an elderly woman is critically hurt in a Portland crash.

Justices find the church was not obligated to reveal prior molestation claims against the priest named by William Picher of Augusta.

Robby Beaulieu, who has numerous prior drunken-driving convictions, remarkably survived being thrown from the car in a crash.