Kuwait has released 10 American prisoners, including veterans and military contractors jailed for years on drug-related ...

A Lewiston man received a 12-month federal prison sentence for filing a fraudulent PPP loan application. BANGOR, Maine — A Lewiston man was sentenced Wednesday in U.S. District Court for filing a ...

By Marie Weidmayer, Bangor Daily News Staff People who have been charged with crimes must be released from jail after 14 days ...

Djvan Carter, 47, was tried in Penobscot County Superior Court this winter on charges of aggravated attempted murder, ...

Harvey Weinstein 's #MeToo retrial next month will be an abridged version of the original, with one big addition: a new ...

Djvan Carter was sentenced for hitting his girlfriend in the head with a hammer and trying to run over a police officer.

The jail was authorized for 80 employees, or half the county’s staff, in the 2024-25 budget. They work 8¼-hour shifts, and ...

The Legislature approved phasing out the chickadee license plate in 2023, and the Maine secretary of state’s office unveiled ...

Several new bills are being heard this month related to the Maine Department of Corrections including LD 626: An Act to ...

A South Carolina man who killed his ex-girlfriend's parents with a baseball bat was executed by firing squad Friday, the ...

The requested funding would pay for additional corrections officers and an additional deputy and is expected to lower ...

These days, when he’s on the streets, it’s often with voter registration forms in hand — part of a growing movement of people working to expand the political power of an often-ignored bloc of ...