by Samantha Hogan | February 26, 2021
The temporary director of Maine’s public defense agency likened his first month on the job to a doctor performing “triage” as he has tried to restore financial and operational integrity to a fraught state agency. Justin Andrus intended to reopen his...
by Samantha Hogan | October 25, 2020
This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Maine Monitor is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Officials are proposing to double the size of the budget set aside to...
by Samantha Hogan | October 14, 2020
This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Maine Monitor is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. Gov. Janet Mills publicly called for a bipartisan effort during the next...
by Samantha Hogan with data analysis by Agnel Philip | October 6, 2020
Editor’s Note: This article was produced in partnership with ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. The Maine Monitor is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network. This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual assault...
by Jordan Bailey | August 23, 2020
More than a decade after Foster Bates was convicted of the 1994 rape and murder of Tammy Dickson of South Portland, two new witnesses came forward with information that could exonerate him. One said another man confessed on the night of the murder, and the other that...
