Matt Byrne has covered crime and public safety for the Press Herald since 2016. It is his second beat since being hired at the Press Herald in late 2012, when he left the Boston Globe's suburban news bureau. Matt grew up outside Philadelphia, moved to Boston to attend Emerson College and now loves living in Maine. When he is not nerding out on court documents or listening to a police scanner, Matt loves to work on old cars, make things out of metal and try new craft beers. Offers to drive your race car, or news tips, are always welcome.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2022
Courts, BMV scramble to fix gap in state law that allows some convicted drivers to keep licenses
Top state officials promise to fix a blind spot in the law that did not clearly require the court system to notify the Bureau of Motor Vehicles that a driver had been convicted of killing someone on the roadway.
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PublishedMarch 7, 2022
Bureaucratic error: Driver in bad crash in Oxford County shouldn’t have had a license
Convicted last summer of vehicular manslaughter, Ethan Rioux-Poulios should have been barred from driving for a decade. But an error by the courts and the BMV allowed him to keep his license. On Friday, he critically injured a woman in a police chase that ended in a wreck.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2022
Penobscot County man dies after being arrested in Patten
Jeremy R. Lau, 46, died after he was arrested Tuesday in Patten, the Attorney General’s Office said Wednesday.
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PublishedMarch 1, 2022
Ukrainian woman from Maine joins Rep. Pingree as virtual guest for State of the Union address
Acknowledging the escalating war in Ukraine, Rep. Chellie Pingree honored a Ukrainian-American woman from Old Orchard Beach as her virtual guest to Tuesday’s State of the Union address.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2022
For Mainer playing pro basketball in Ukraine, decision to leave was not an easy one
Troy Barnies, 33, struggled to decide when to leave the southeastern city of Mykolaiv as Russian troops drew closer to invasion.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2022
Bowdoin College hires a top state police official to help lead campus security
Lt. Col. William Harwood will retire from public service and become associate director of safety and security at the Brunswick college.
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PublishedFebruary 22, 2022
Ellsworth attorney suspended over alleged embezzlement from client
A judge ordered the immediate suspension of an Ellsworth attorney after bar investigators alleged he misappropriated money from a client’s estate he was hired to administer.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2022
Reporter with deep ties to Maine tells of fear, uncertainty in Ukraine
Mike Eckel, a Colby College graduate, is covering the nation’s tense conflict with Russia for Radio Free Europe. He says, ‘Putin being who he is, we’re all kind of waiting on tenterhooks.’
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2022
Penobscot County sheriff’s deputy killed in snowmobile crash in Limestone
Staff Sgt. Bobbie Pelletier died Sunday, the sheriff’s office said, but details about the circumstances were not released.
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2022
Lawmakers make late move to close Long Creek Youth Development Center
Legislators gutted a bill originally aimed at limiting some use-of-force techniques at the youth prison, and now seek a timeline to close the facility entirely.
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