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The Justice Department is demanding identifying details about the senior Trump administration official who has written an anonymous book, warning in a letter to the publisher on Monday that the author may be subject to nondisclosure agreements, NBC News reported. The letter, signed by Assistant Attorney General Joseph Hunt, asked for details or copies of the author’s nondisclosure agreements “or...

There will be no charges against three Belmont, New Hampshire, police officers who shot and killed a man last month. Tuesday, the state attorney general’s office justified the use of deadly force and laid out a disturbing timeline leading up to the shooting.

The Justice Department and the House Intelligence Committee reached a deal over documents from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation Wednesday after the prosecutors’ office said it is willing to provide them to the congressional panel as long as the panel agrees not to take any action against Attorney General William Barr. The unusual request comes after the committee’s chairman, Democratic...

Four years is eight times the length of Larry Earl Lord’s entire life. But that is approximately the amount of time that has gone by since the 6-month old’s passing. Much of the Maine boy’s legacy is his death itself. He was the son of Anthony Lord, a criminal now serving two life sentences for a 2015 shooting rampage that...

StarKist Co. agreed to plead guilty to a felony price fixing charge as part of a broad collusion investigation of the canned tuna industry, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Thursday. The DOJ said StarKist faces up to a $100 million fine when it is sentenced. Prosecutors allege that the industry’s top three companies conspired between 2010 and 2013 to...

Almost two years after a Winthrop, Maine, teenager confessed to killing her parents on Halloween, she admitted her guilt before a judge, entering guilty pleas to two murder charges and an animal cruelty charge.

A motion to suppress statements made by accused deputy killer John Williams has been filed in a Maine court.

The Walt Disney Co. on Wednesday won U.S. antitrust approval for its $71.3 billion bid for Twenty-First Century Fox’s entertainment assets. Disney must first sell its 22 regional sports networks, the Department of Justice said. The company has 90 days to sell the networks, with an option to extend for another 90 days. Fox’s assets have been the target of...

U.S. prosecutors filed a criminal charge Wednesday against the CEO of Bumble Bee Foods as part of an ongoing investigation into price fixing in the packaged seafood industry.

A judge says prosecutors improperly obtained a psychological evaluation and other records in the case against a Maine woman charged in the fatal beating of her 10-year-old daughter.

From J’s Oyster to jail, the owner of a popular Portland, Maine restaurant will soon serve a four-month sentence for stealing sales tax.

Money from a $559.7 million Powerball jackpot will go into a temporary trust as a New Hampshire judge continues to consider whether or not the Merrimack woman who won it can keep her identity private.

A New Hampshire judge will decide whether a Merrimack woman can keep her identity private after winning a $559.7 million jackpot.

A former doctor accused of molesting girls while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University pleaded guilty Wednesday to multiple charges of sexual assault and will face at least 25 years in prison. Larry Nassar, 54, admitted to abusing seven girls, mostly under the guise of treatment at his Lansing-area home and a campus clinic. All but one of...

A Vermont judge refused to accept a plea deal in the case of a former police officer accused of betraying his badge, because she believed the proposed punishments were not severe enough.

A Maine man who killed two people and wounded three others in a two-county shooting rampage is due to be sentenced next month on two counts of murder, two charges of attempted murder and other charges.

Investigators returned to the New Hampshire home where two women were brutally killed in January.

For more than 20 years, two Kentucky men were in prison because a jury said they killed a woman to curry favor with the devil as part of a satanic ritual.

The key witness in a murder that sent a teenage boy to prison for 27 years recanted Thursday and accused authorities of coercing her testimony. The stunning declaration led a judge to set bail in the case, drawing a gasp from the packed courtroom and sending the defendant’s wife to her knees. Tony Sanborn, who was convicted of killing his...