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Published
June 25, 2012

Freeport arsonist to serve five years in prison

Christopher Veysey, 22, is ordered to serve 15 years in prison, with all but five suspended, for setting fire to Bob Miles & Son, a plumbing business on Route 1.
Published
June 20, 2012

Dechaine gets 3 months for drug possession

ROCKLAND — Dennis Dechaine was sentenced Tuesday to three months of imprisonment for misdemeanor drug possession in connection with a 2010 overdose at the Maine State Prison.
Published
June 19, 2012

Dechaine sentenced to 3 more months on drug charge

Dechaine is serving a life sentence for the 1988 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry in Bowdoin.
Published
June 15, 2012

DNA focus for Dechaine trial

PORTLAND — Expert witnesses who testified Thursday in Dennis Dechaine’s hearing on a new trial offered contrasting views on whether the DNA evidence at issue is a result of contamination.
Published
June 14, 2012

Experts differ on DNA in Dechaine case

Testimony today focused on how likely contamination was responsible for unknown male DNA on Sarah Cherry’s fingernail clipping.
Published
June 12, 2012

Court hears Dechaine’s bid for new trial

Dennis Dechaine is serving a life sentence for the 1988 murder and kidnapping of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry in Bowdoin.
Published
June 7, 2012

Man in prison for Lebanon double-murder kills himself

Steven Brown pleaded guilty to all the charges stemming from the 1999 kidnapping of his estranged wife and the murders of her brother and boyfriend.
Published
June 7, 2012

Deschaine’s new trial hangs on thumbnail

PORTLAND — Dennis Dechaine’s bid for a new trial hinges on a fragment of DNA from a thumbnail clipping.
Published
June 2, 2012

Patrick Dapolito sentenced to 55 years in wife’s murder

ALFRED — When 16-year-old Sabrina Beggs looks into her future, she sees her mother’s absence in the milestones of her life: picking out a prom dress, earning her driver’s license, graduating from high school and college and getting married. But one of the hardest things in the aftermath of her mother’s murder, she said, is missing out on everyday experiences like sharing how their days went.
Published
May 31, 2012

Forgiveness prevails at sentencing in hunter shooting case

William Briggs, 61, fatally shot Peter Kolofsky, 46, while deer hunting in the Sebago woods n November 2011. In the courtroom this morning, Kolofsky’s widow addressed Briggs directly.