David Bobrow News Today

ROCKLAND — The criminal trial of a former contractor accused of bilking scores of customers for nearly $500,000 is likely to be held in June or July in Bath.

PORTLAND — A Lisbon man convicted of attempted murder of Auburn police argued through his lawyer Monday before the state’s highest court that he should be granted a new trial because his trial attorney had blocked him from testifying in his defense. Bartolo Ford, 57, was convicted by a jury in 2010 of aggravated attempted […]

AUBURN — A Lisbon man convicted at trial of aggravated attempted murder of a local police officer in 2010 argued Thursday that his legal counsel was ineffective in assisting him. Bartolo Ford took the witness stand in Androscoggin County Superior Court, something he said he’d wanted to do during the trial. The final day of […]

ROCKLAND — Another hearing has been scheduled to try to resolve the criminal cases against a former contractor accused of bilking scores of customers for nearly $500,000.

ROCKLAND — A state judge rejected an attempt by the owner of the defunct Castle Builders contractor company in Union to have the cases against him broken down into 57

ROCKLAND — A state judge rejected an attempt by the owner of defunct Castle Builders contractor company in Union to dismiss the criminal charges against him.

The owner of now-defunct Castle Builders in Union appeared virtually in a Knox County courtroom Thursday morning.

ROCKLAND — The attorney representing the owner of defunct Castle Builders contractor company in Union argued Thursday that the criminal case against his client should be dismissed or in lieu

A defense attorney for Malcolm Stewart, the owner of the now-defunct Castle Builders, is asking the judge to dismiss the case, or at least move it out of Knox County.

Joshua Cory Frances, 46, pleaded guilty to stealing thousands of dollars from Maine Med and falsely claiming he was a Homeland Security officer to buy two boats through a federal agency.