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Justices order authorities to release the records in a Biddeford murder case, rejecting the state’s long-standing policy to withhold them.

Justices order authorities to release the records in a Biddeford murder case, rejecting the state’s long-standing policy to withhold them.

Share Alison Pray, founder and co-owner of Standard Baking Co. in Portland, taste-tests bagels at the Portland Press Herald. Staff photo by Gregory Rec The judges were swift and severe. After getting their first look at the bagels lined up in the center of a conference room table in the Press Herald newsroom, they immediately dismissed the anemic ones on the end because they looked as if they hadn’t spent enough time in an oven. Some judges refused to acknowledge that they even were bagels, labeling them “bread with holes.” They were “just not even worth talking about,” one judge d...

Press Herald sues Maine State Police over concealed discipline records The newspaper is working to obtain public information on why more than a dozen state troopers were disciplined since 2015. Share The Portland Press Herald filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the Maine State Police seeking to pry loose disciplinary records that could shed light on how the agency handles complaints of misconduct and rule-breaking among its ranks. The Maine State Police redacted key parts of disciplinary records or withheld some records entirely in their response to requests for information regarding officer dis...

increase font size Press Herald joins federal lawsuit as Maine newspapers sue over delay in access to civil complaints The federal lawsuit challenges a rule allowing digital civil court filings to remain secret for weeks or even months after they are filed. Share The Portland Press Herald and the Sun Journal have joined a new federal lawsuit challenging a rule that allows civil cases in Maine’s electronic court records system to be secret for weeks or even months after they are filed. Courthouse News Service, a national outlet that reports on civil court proceedings, filed the complaint We...