Keith Thorpe, 42, will be extradited and charged in the slaying of 39-year-old Virginia Cookson.
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Woman found dead in Bangor home was homicide victim, police say
Virginia Cookson, 39, was found in a Larkin Street home after she did not show up for work Wednesday morning.
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Maine residential care worker sentenced for ‘grotesque and pervasive’ assaults on disabled man
Zachery Conners, 26, was among 4 workers accused of abuse that included waterboarding, choking and sexually assaulting a nonverbal adult male client at the Lee Residential Care center in Hampden.
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Maine law thwarts impact of school choice decision, lawsuit says
A Christian school at the center of a Supreme Court decision that requires Maine to include religious schools in a state tuition program is challenging a state antidiscrimination law.
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Public defender’s offices are opening across Maine. The next step: Staffing them.
In Bangor, at the epicenter of the state’s indigent defense crisis, the district defender has only been able to fill one of five positions.
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Maine CDC finds 6 cases of West Nile virus in birds; investigating 1 in a human
The last case of the mosquito-borne disease in a human in Maine was in 2018.
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Bangor parents plead not guilty to murder in son’s death
Prosecutors say 10-year-old Braxtyn Smith endured months of abuse before his death in February.
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Roux Institute students help Maine’s air ambulance service respond to emergencies faster
The Portland graduate students analyzed data from LifeFlight to see where it could cut down the time it takes to get in the air.
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Unitil to pay $71 million for Bangor-area natural gas company
The deal, which requires approval from state regulators, would give Maine’s biggest natural gas provider 8,500 more customers and 351 more miles of pipeline.
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Federal court denies Bangor church’s request for injunction in tuition lawsuit
Crosspoint Church, which runs Bangor Christian Schools, is challenging the stipulation in Maine’s Human Rights Act that prohibits schools receiving state funding from discriminating based on gender identity, sexual orientation and religion.