John Terhune

Press Herald

John reports on police and crime for the Press Herald. He previously covered the cities of Bath and Brunswick for the Times Record and was a staff writer for The Forecaster. A former Waterville Panther, John returned to Maine after studying philosophy at Middlebury College in Vermont and journalism at Boston University. When he’s not writing about Maine communities, John spends his time practicing yoga, organizing games of Survivor and obsessively following the Red Sox farm system.

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Published
May 27, 2023

Investigators believe driver in fatal crash went wrong way on Bucknam Road off-ramp

Police continue to investigate why Nancy Ezhaya of Yarmouth was driving in the wrong direction on Interstate 295 when she hit another vehicle in a crash that killed both drivers and injured a passenger.
Published
May 25, 2023

Lawsuit accuses bishop of Diocese of Portland of facilitating sexual abuse

The suit alleges that Bishop Robert Deeley was one of three high-ranking members of the Catholic Church who were negligent in allowing a high school administrator in Massachusetts to sexually abuse minors for several years starting in 2011.
Published
May 25, 2023

Court grants new life to lawsuit challenging Maine’s vaccine mandate for health care workers

Three judges on the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously reversed a lower court’s decision to throw out a legal challenge to the state’s COVID-19 mandate for health care workers.
Published
May 18, 2023

Biddeford man pleads not guilty to assault charge in Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection

Christopher Maurer is accused of hitting, screaming at and making obscene gestures toward Capitol police officers before he was pepper-sprayed and left the area.
Published
May 5, 2023

Albion woman dies after campground fire

Liza Bragg, 46, died after someone tried to start a fire at a campground in China Friday night.
Published
May 1, 2023

Officer tried to de-escalate pursuit before fatal high speed crash, chief says

Nicholas Leibowitz, 30, died Friday night after crashing into a telephone pole in Gray. Police had been following him from Oxford after multiple reports of erratic driving.
Published
April 28, 2023

Friends of Alfred man accused of killing wife feared he would commit suicide

Transcripts of 911 calls made on April 10 reveal James Crow’s friends and family believed a message he posted on Facebook shortly after he allegedly shot his wife meant he intended to take his own life.
Published
April 20, 2023

‘Bullet holes everywhere’ in Bowdoin home where 4 found dead, court records say

An affidavit charging Joseph Eaton, 34, with murder describes how the sister of one of the victims found the bodies of Eaton’s parents and their longtime friends in Bowdoin. Eaton made his first court appearance Thursday.
Published
April 19, 2023

Police say suspect confessed to killing his parents and 2 family friends, wounding 3 on I-295

Joseph Eaton, 34, is accused of killing Cynthia and David Eaton, of Florida, and Bob and Patti Eger, who lived in the home in Bowdoin where the bodies were discovered Tuesday.
Published
April 18, 2023

Suspect arrested after shootings leave 4 dead in Bowdoin, 3 wounded on I-295

State police say 34-year-old Joseph Eaton of Bowdoin has been charged with murder. Investigators are still processing multiple crime scenes in southern Maine.