AUGUSTA – Maine State Police homicide detective Lt. Gary Wright was sitting in the Somerset County Courthouse waiting for a verdict in the murder trial of Shannon Atwood recently when his pager went off. Wright was being notified of Maine’s 20th homicide of 2008, the… Read More
CARIBOU – Potential jurors were told to go home Thursday morning after the Caribou man accused in the brutal slaying and sexual assault of his supervisor at a local Tim Hortons restaurant decided that he did not want a jury trial. Christopher Shumway, 20, waived… Read More
ELLSWORTH – The mother of a Southwest Harbor woman formally charged Friday with an elderly woman’s murder whispered the words “I love you” as her daughter left the Hancock County courthouse in tears. The state alleges that Michelle Mills, 37, was responsible for the January… Read More
NEW SWEDEN – Results of an autopsy on a 53-year-old Woodland man whose shooting death has been linked to the deadly arsenic poisoning at a New Sweden church are expected to be released this afternoon, according to investigators. Col. Michael Sperry, head of the Maine… Read More
NEW SWEDEN – Members of the Gustaf Adolph Evangelical Lutheran Church took back their house of worship Sunday morning and reclaimed it for God one week after one man was killed and 15 others hospitalized from drinking coffee laced with arsenic. “As I lead the… Read More
CHELSEA, Vt. – A year after the murders of two Dartmouth College professors, the teen-age Vermont suspects who once did everything together spend their days in separate New Hampshire jails awaiting a courtroom reunion this spring. But they’ll be on opposite sides when they meet… Read More
BANGOR – A 38-year-old Corinth man was sentenced to 45 years in prison Thursday for the brutal murder of a Kenduskeag woman in February 1999. Franklin Higgins said nothing to the court and showed no emotion when the sentence was handed down by Superior Court… Read More
AUGUSTA – After embracing her family, Vella Gogan of Hartland was led away by deputies Wednesday to begin serving a six-year prison term for killing and dismembering her husband after what some say was a 37-year-long abusive marriage. Earlier in the two-hour sentencing hearing held… Read More
HOULTON – State police said Thursday that the man who shot and killed his wife and her sister in a domestic dispute on Wednesday in Patten, before shooting himself, had been arrested in 1993 in Virginia for stalking his ex-wife. A close relative from Virginia… Read More