Crime & Public Safety

The jury trial is under way of the five Grand Manan men charged in a July 22 incident in which a group of about 40 islanders attacked a smaller group of islanders and mainlanders whom they suspected of dealing in drugs.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are investigating an apparent incident of vigilante justice on Grand Manan Island in the early hours of Saturday, July 22, that led to arson, gunfire and physical altercations in Castalia...

The cause of death still has not been determined for a 34-year-old homeless man from Lubec whose burning body was discovered under the Harlow Street Bridge in Bangor on Tuesday evening, March 7. His death is being investigated as a homicide, according to Deputy Attorney General William Stokes.

“When I found him, he could see the heavens up above. He was lying beside two stumps, as if he had laid down to rest. I think he had just played himself out, trying to walk for help. He looked like he passed in a very peaceful way,” said the 79 year old Bob Wright, of finding his friend in the...

After being on the lam for over two years, Harry Smith Jr. of Meddybemps, an environmental criminal listed on Maine's Most Wanted List, was apprehended on the morning of November 3 at a salvage business in Everett, Mass.

A 16-year-old boy from Perry must pay restitution to the family whose home he admits to trashing earlier this summer.