Deputies arrested Shane Murphy Sr., 48, of Fairfield and Travis Clement, 44, of Norridgewock after seizing 169 grams of fentanyl, according to information provided by Somerset County Sheriff Dale Lancaster.

Xavier J. Pelkey was indicted this week in Somerset County on a count of aggravated assault and authorities say he used a chair to injure another inmate at the county jail, where he was being held prior to pleading guilty to a federal conspiracy charge.

Mark Cardilli Jr., who admitted to shooting his sister’s boyfriend, 22-year-old Isahak Muse, in 2019, was freed on $20,000 cash bail Friday and will get a new trial if the state's appeal to the Maine Supreme Judicial Court is rejected.

Officer Anthony Verville fatally shot Christapher Dodge, 47, after responding to a domestic violence shooting at the Summit Terrace apartments early Friday.

Nicholas Kennard, 39, was charged Monday following a month-long investigation into illegal drug sales, according to the Somerset County Sheriff's Office.

Kailie Brackett, 39, was charged with murder in April 2022 in the death of Kimberly Neptune, who was found stabbed more than 480 times at her apartment in Pleasant Point.

Mark Cardilli Jr., who confessed to shooting 22-year-old Isahak Muse in 2019, will get a new trial after a judge ruled Tuesday that Cardilli's attorneys failed to properly make a self-defense argument.

A U.S. District Court jury in Bangor on Friday convicted an 86-year-old Etna man of charges including mail fraud, Social Security fraud, passport fraud and identity theft.

Christopher Manigat, 21, was taken into custody over the weekend and is being held without bail at the Kennebec County Jail in Augusta.

The robbery occurred Aug. 5 at the Big Apple store on Old Point Avenue in Madison.

Dozens of vacancies and a policy of troopers being reassigned to speciality units creates a rural policing void.

A grand jury indicts Andrew J. St. George for killing Barbara St. George July 7.

At her arraignment Thursday morning, Noelle Tavares, 21, of Falmouth, Massachusetts, denied responsibility for the December 2022 crash that killed 4 of her Maine Maritime Academy classmates.

An office building on Western Avenue was significantly damaged and one person was taken to a hospital after the Tuesday crash, officials said.

Michael Brackett was arrested Tuesday on wire and securities fraud charges after he allegedly lied to investors about the financial health of his tech startup, Centricity Inc.

An undisclosed amount of cash was taken from three businesses. A burglary attempt at a fourth business failed.

Keith Merchant, 43, was arrested Thursday on charges that include gross sexual assault, according to the Somerset County Sheriff's Office.

City councilors cold to proposal to regulate murals, but direct city attorney to recommend changes to city regulations to ensure hate symbols and other offensive images or words can't be placed on building walls visible to the public.

Justin Hill, 37, is charged with aggravated assault in the alleged stabbing at a convenience store in Bangor.

A Cumberland County grand jury indicted Marcel LaGrange Jr., 24, on six charges, including two counts of murder and one count of aggravated attempted murder.