Emily Allen

1 week ago | pressherald.com | Alex McCann |Emily Allen

Potentially hundreds of rural Mainers who bought their homes through a government loan program are about to be hit by what state housing advocates have called a “tsunami” of foreclosures, the origins of which remain unclear. For decades, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development office has offered low-income, first-time homebuyers all over the country a chance at homeownership through Section 502 loans.

3 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Amber Carter |Emily Allen

Doctors believe Roy and Janet Palmer could have spent another decade together. More yearly trips to the Fryeburg Fair, more nights spent watching NCIS and NASCAR races, more spontaneous day trips and visits with family. Janet Palmer thought they’d still have that future when she dropped her 69-year-old husband off at the Togus VA Medical Center in Augusta five years ago for abnormal stomach pain.

3 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Julia Arenstam |Emily Allen

An emergency law allocating $3.5 million to address Maine’s public defense crisis took effect Wednesday without the governor’s signature. Maine is struggling to provide legal representation to everyone who has a constitutional right to a court-appointed lawyer if they can’t afford one on their own. The situation had grown so dire that a judge in Kennebec County recently ordered that people who have waited longer than two weeks for a lawyer start to be released from jail.

4 weeks ago | pressherald.com | Emily Allen

A new law will expand what protections judges can offer victims of domestic violence and stalking in Maine in an effort to close some loopholes in the protection system. Advocates say the law, which will take effect 90 days after adjournment, is an effort to meet the unique needs of people who need protection, including those who go to the same school with their perpetrator or work for the same employer.

1 month ago | centralmaine.com | Emily Allen

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