3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (260+ words) The Brewer Police Department arrested a registered sex offender last week after he was allegedly found camping in the woods within 750 feet of children. [RELATED: Registered Sex Offender Living in Corinna Charged with Child Exploitation While on Probation…] Two Brewer…...

5+ day, 47+ min ago   (212+ words) The Bangor Police Department arrested a homeless man on Monday after he allegedly stole a large umbrella from outside a Main Street business. [RELATED: Bangor’s Taxpayers Spent $60K on a Swing and $5K on Trash Cans in a Park As Homelessness Makes…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (927+ words) Bangor Savings Bank has moved to foreclose on the Falmouth home of Abdullahi Ali, the Somali-American refugee poster child whose company collected roughly $5 million per year in MaineCare payments before the Maine Wire exposed allegations of systemic fraud and multiple…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (293+ words) A Brazilian illegal immigrant pleaded guilty on Friday to a charge of illegal reentry after he had allegedly been previously deported twice. He was caught in a vehicle registered under his own name, raising questions about why a previously deported…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago   (793+ words) Hannaford Supermarkets has agreed to pay nearly $9 million to settle a sweeping wage-and-hour lawsuit brought by a former Lewiston bakery manager who alleged the Maine-based grocery giant improperly classified department managers as salaried employees to avoid paying them overtime. The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (800+ words) A Maine mother’s fight over her ability to take her daughter to church is headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court after Maine’s highest court unanimously upheld a custody order giving the child’s father final authority over her religious activities. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (660+ words) A 17-year-old Maine resident has become the first juvenile in the United States to be federally charged, adjudicated and detained for criminal acts connected to the violent online extremist network known as 764, federal authorities announced Tuesday. The teenager, whose identity…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (468+ words) “Now to a story only on 13.” Those are the words that so effortlessly flowed out of anchor Aysia Reed’s lying lips as WGME/CBS 13 in Portland, Maine stole The Maine Wire’s original reporting and claimed it as their own. A…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (308+ words) U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Monday announced a sweeping interagency campaign to combat fraud in the commercial trucking sector, including the formation of a new multi-state task force aimed at improving highway safety and…...

2+ week, 2+ hour ago   (135+ words) Pabst Blue Ribbon officials are making an offer they can’t – or shouldn’t – refuse to thieves who made off with two truckloads of beer. “Return it within two weeks and we won’t ask any questions.” The beer heist occurred in mid-August…...