Candace Faller says male corrections officers at the jail used physical force to hold her down for a body search, despite her protestations that, as a sexual abuse victim, she suffered from PTSD and could not handle interacting with ‘aggressive or physically intimidating men.’
Emily Allen
Staff Writer
Emily Allen covers courts for the Portland Press Herald. It's her favorite beat so far — before moving to Maine in 2022, she reported on a wide range of topics for public radio in West Virginia and was the City Hall reporter for the Grand Forks Herald in North Dakota. Emily is not a fan of the cold, but she puts up with Maine's challenging winters because she loves the state's beautiful hiking options ... once the snow has cleared.
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Four Maine Maritime Academy students killed in single-vehicle crash in Castine
Three other students were injured early Saturday when their vehicle crashed and caught fire, police say.
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Federal employee from Waterville charged with accessing child porn on work laptop
Terrence Talbot was working for the U.S. Geological Survey New England Water Center in Augusta.
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Gorham man sentenced to 30 days in prison for role in Capitol riot
Nicholas Hendrix, an Army veteran, is the first Maine resident to be sentenced for participating in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
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Three more complaints alleging sexual abuse filed against Catholic Diocese of Portland
A fourth complaint was filed in federal court against a missionary group overseeing clergy in Bucksport and Bar Harbor.
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Youth issues are at the heart of new ACLU of Maine director’s agenda
Maine’s largest civil liberties organization hired Arthur Padilla as its new executive director after a seven-month search.
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Presque Isle man dies at Maine State Prison
Robert Carney, 59, had about seven years left on a 20-year sentence, according to the Maine Department of Corrections.
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Scarborough woman suing Portland’s Catholic Diocese for failing to stop known abuser in 1960s
The Rev. Lawrence Sabatino, who died in 1990, was one of 20 priests the diocese publicly identified in 2005 for abusing children. Ann Allen’s suit was made possible by a change in state law that removed the statute of limitations for sexual abuse cases.
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Former trooper, state police leader give conflicting testimony about retaliation claims
Retired trooper George Loder took the stand in his lawsuit against the Maine State Police Wednesday. State attorneys argued that Loder hasn’t proven his case.
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System to help poor defendants is worsening in rural Maine
Attorneys staffing the struggling indigent defense program say the solutions they’re seeing can’t keep up with the systemic problems.