Author: Marie Weidmayer
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Maine man arrested for assaulting park employee who wouldn’t accept cash payments at Acadia
Jason Langley was arrested for the alleged 2023 assault the same week Acadia announced it was ending cash payment for fees as of April 15.
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Maine school district won’t sign Trump’s Title IX agreement
Both Maine School Administrative District 51 and the MPA will continue to follow Maine state law and the Maine Human Rights Act, they said.
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Frustration mounts as Holden man convicted of drunk driving crash ‘released yet again’
David MacKenzie allegedly violated his bail conditions two times in the last three months as he tried to appeal a drunk driving conviction.
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Penobscot County may pay $2.5M to board inmates at other jails
An average of 69 people per day were boarded out of the jail in 2024 because the facility was at or near its state-mandated capacity of 157 people.
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2 men plead not guilty to bank fraud to buy Maine homes for illegal marijuana grows
Yuantong Liang, 36, and Yongliang Deng, 34, allegedly lied to banks to obtain mortgages for three houses in 2020.
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2 Christian schools argue that they shouldn’t have to follow Maine’s anti-discrimination law
The schools separately sued the state in 2023, claiming that accepting gender nonbinary students would violate their freedom of religion.
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Lincoln hires Old Town deputy chief to lead police department
Lee Miller replaces Mark Leonard, who served as Lincoln’s police chief for about a year and a half from 2023 until early January.
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Man charged with murdering Corinth man also faces forgery charge
Kenneth Creamer, 36, is accused of killing 27-year-old Dylan Caruso, who was last seen alive on Ohio Street in Bangor.