Religious leaders in Greater Portland are finding ways to foster togetherness as the coronavirus pandemic forces them to limit or even cancel physical services.
Megan Gray
Staff Writer
Megan Gray is an arts and culture reporter at the Portland Press Herald. A Midwest native, she moved to Maine in 2016. She has written about presidential politics and local government, jury trials and jails. Her current beat is her favorite yet, and she loves the stories that take her to behind the scenes to an artist studio or theater backstage. Outside of work, she likes to explore Maine’s hiking trails and coastal islands with her husband, and she definitely wants to pet your dog.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Lawmakers urged to repeal provision allowing secrecy in police use of surveillance tools
Two legislators introduced the measure after the Maine Sunday Telegram reported that state police are using a provision in Maine law to conceal whether they are using technologies capable of mass surveillance of citizens.
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Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Bowdoinham teenager sentenced to 27 years for killing his grandmother
Investigators believe Dominic Sylvester, 18, beat his grandmother to death with a stick or club in the mobile home they shared.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News, Uncategorized
Marissa Kennedy’s mother gets 48 years for the 10-year-old’s murder
The 35-year-old mother was convicted in December of depraved indifference murder.
Posted inMaine, News, Schools & Education
Prosecutor drops OUI case against longtime Biddeford school bus driver
Richard Tanguay will return to work immediately, the superintendent said Friday, after breath and urine tests revealed no evidence of alcohol or drugs.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Limington man found guilty of murdering his neighbor with machete
Bruce Akers faces to 25 years to life in prison for killing Douglas Flint and hiding his body under a pile of deer hides in June 2016.
Posted inMaine, News
An inspirational tail: Maine collie goes from animal cruelty seizure to the Puppy Bowl
Duncan was one of more than 130 animals seized from a business in Solon in July.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime
Mental health professionals say murder suspect was paranoid, delusional
Bruce Akers of Limington is charged with killing Douglas Flint, his neighbor, with a machete in 2016.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine
Auburn minister receives community service for 2018 arrest at Portland protest
Four protesters were sentenced Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court in Portland to 25 hours of community service each after being arrested in 2018 on a misdemeanor charge of failure to obey a lawful order.
Posted inMaine, News
Portland-area hotels failed to act to stop sex trafficking, woman says in lawsuit
The former Maine woman’s lawsuit names four hotels, two of which have closed, and it may be consolidated with other lawsuits filed by victims in other states.