PORTLAND, Maine — Since the mass shooting in Lewiston a little over a year ago, there's been a lot of talk about making Maine's gun laws more strict. This past legislative session, Gov. Janet Mills ...

Police didn’t say what led to the shooting. They found the 46-year-old victim suffering from a serious gunshot wound.

Scripps News has been nominated three times as a finalist for the 2025 Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Awards, which ...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden locked in a tight race for re-election against Republican state Rep. Austin Theriault in ...

Arguably, retained lawyers foresee passage of a half-year before litigation is filed in court. An example of that is one lawyer’s anticipated acquisition of Card’s medical and military records via his ...

Voters in Sagadahoc County, Maine, on Tuesday, reelected Sheriff Joel Merry over a sergeant in the department who was accused of failing to take action to disarm an Army reservist responsible for ...

Democratic Rep. Jared Golden claims to have fended off a challenge on Tuesday from Republican NASCAR star Austin Theriault in ...

Merry and his challenger faced tough questions about their interactions with an Army reservist who last year killed 18 people ...

A sergeant from the Sagadahoc County Sheriff’s Department who was named for failing to remove weapons from the perpetrator of ...

In Maine, sheriffs serve four-year terms ... Both candidates have been called out for the agency's failure to stop the gunman in the Lewiston mass shooting. The sheriff's department had been warned ...

Progress has been made, with more to do, as institutions work to remove obstacles that on Oct. 25 and the following days led ...