Mills will hold the measure from Rep. Deqa Dhalac, D-South Portland, until the next legislative session, spokesperson Ben ...

Police say witnesses told them a small gray sedan came within inches of striking the rangers before veering back into the ...

Maine has 144 state and local law enforcement agencies, according to the U.S. Department of Justice, and 43 of them have invoked Maine’s yellow flag law. While Portland police consider it too ...

It bars the use of chokeholds, neck restraints and other tactics that might cut off someone's ability to breathe. The Portland Police Department bars the use of chokeholds, neck restraints and ...

Six police departments, including Portland, have used Maine’s yellow flag law for the first time since Lewiston shootings.

Portland, Maine, Police Urged to Get ... in its preliminary 2019 budget to outfit police with the technology that has already been adopted by several other departments around the state and is ...

Five other departments also have used the tool for the first time since the Lewiston shootings: Dover-Foxcroft’s department enacted the law once; Auburn, Presque Isle and Sagadahoc County each ...