Callie Ferguson

A former longtime guard at Maine’s only youth prison was charged with assault last year for allegedly putting a teenager in a headlock and lifting him off the ground. John Emerton, 44, of Gray, was charged with misdemeanor assault last winter. He has deni... See more

Maine’s public safety chief refused to answer scant questions from lawmakers on Tuesday about the state police’s internal review of a chaotic 2024 arrest in which a trooper repeatedly punched a handcuffed man in the face. Department of Public Safety Commi... See more

Maine’s public safety chief will take questions from lawmakers Tuesday following two excessive force lawsuits against the state police this fall, one of them related to the beating of a handcuffed man that was also the subject of a Maine Monitor/Bangor Da... See more

Late one Sunday in May, a Winthrop police officer saw a man napping behind the wheel of a blue pickup truck parked in front of a laundromat. The officer ran the truck’s plates, according to a police report obtained by the Bangor Daily News. The vehicle wa... See more

The days of having a separate police force patrol the seat of Maine’s state government are numbered. The Maine Capitol Police, responsible for safeguarding the buildings and people inside the government complex around the State House, will be gradually ab... See more