In trove of officer misconduct records, Maine sheriffs hide the worst offenses
The Bangor Daily News asked each county for its discipline records and discovered how incomplete they are, raising questions about what really happened, whether discipline is equitable and whether elected sheriffs are holding their staff accountable.
Penobscot County ranks 1st for rare fentanyl copycat drugs in nationwide analysis
Rare drugs designed to mimic the opioid fentanyl are showing up more often in urine samples from Penobscot County than any other county in the nation, according to a recent study.
Brewer school board candidate was fired as a jail guard for sexual harassment
Troy Richardson was previously fired from his job as a jail guard for sexual harassment and had been disciplined four other times during his tenure at the Hancock County Jail in Ellsworth.
What this Maine doctor has learned about addiction’s hidden challenges after 40 years in medicine
Dr. Mark Publicker, 70, will retire from his private practice at the end of the year, after 40 years in medicine.
Maine House candidate fostered a ‘hostile’ workplace at sexual assault agency, former staff say
Seven former employees and one former intern at Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine spoke to the Bangor Daily News about their experiences working for Melanie Sachs.
Feds allow Canadian loggers to threaten Maine jobs, Senate president says in complaint
Illegal Canadian competition “has left many Maine loggers and truckers struggling to find work and earn decent wages,” Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, said in the complaint.
Still don’t have your unemployment benefits? Let us know.
We’d like to get a sense of how many people are still waiting — and for how long.
People are still stuck in Maine’s unemployment ‘vortex,’ while multi-state leaders haven’t met
That explanation, that unemployment claims are somehow “stuck” in the computer system that handles them, is a familiar one to many Maine people who have reported waiting months for the benefits owed to them.
Fryeburg police chief who resigned lied to investigators, documents show
No one was willing to publicly say why former Chief Joshua Potvin was investigated, but the BDN confirmed that he had experienced problems in the past that, until now, have not been widely disclosed.
See a list of schools we checked for radon tests
Schools are not following the federal government’s advice to test for radon every five years, even though the radioactive gas is prevalent throughout Maine.
We checked if 285 Maine schools tested for cancer-causing radon. Only 1 did.
Schools are not following the federal government’s advice to test for radon every five years, even though the radioactive gas is prevalent throughout Maine.
Maine intelligence agency under scrutiny asks for the public’s trust
But officials have skated around certain questions that drilled into specific examples of the unit’s performance and activities.
Portland jail guards followed policy when pepper-spraying 2 inmates with mental illness
That’s the conclusion of a state investigation into the two incidents at the Cumberland County Jail.
After massive protests, Maine cities try to turn rallying cries into change
“It needs to be action, and it needs to be coming from people of color making those decisions,” said Desiree Vargas with Racial Equity and Justice in Bangor.
Mainers with data exposed in crime center’s breach have little recourse
The hack should be a lesson for those in government charged with safeguarding sensitive data, said two cybersecurity experts.
Lawsuit: Maine’s largest private financiers and banks defrauded homeowners
Three men from southern Maine — Joel Douglas of Gorham, Steven Fowler of Portland and James Lewis of Casco — filed the lawsuit alleging racketeering and fraud against a long list of defendants.
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