Steve Robinson

Amid a nationwide reckoning over Medicaid fraud committed largely by “New Americans,” Maine Gov. Janet Mills is taking the unprecedented step of freezing enrollment in four of the most defrauded programs in MaineCare.

A Rhode Island man wanted on five felony child molestation charges was arrested Monday at a residence in North Berwick by members of the U.S. Marshals Service-led Maine Violent Offender Task Force.

For years, when a Maine politician wanted to lend borrowed credibility to a partisan smear, or when a Bangor Daily News reporter wanted an authoritative-sounding quote to confirm the premise of their story, they would cite the Southern Poverty Law Center. On Tuesday, a federal grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama returned an 11-count indictment charging

The U.S. Treasury Department has permanently barred from the banking industry a former Quontic Bank mortgage officer who originated dozens of home loans for rural Maine properties that were later converted into illicit Chinese marijuana grow houses.

The White House on Wednesday posted four packages of declassified and formerly internal government records , a document dump that runs from CIA China reporting to an FBI box of fake voter forms in western Michigan.

Augusta resident Troy Jackson, the former Senate President from Allagash, has secured the Maine Democratic Party's inside nod to take over the U.S. Senate nomination, a seat vacated by his disgraced communist-socialist bestie, Graham Platner.

The tiny St. John River Valley town of Allagash (population 240) has long been the butt of Maine jokes about its handful of last names and family trees that don't so much branch as tangle.

From 2019 to 2025, Maine spent more than $22 million in state and federal tax dollars on syringe services programs — that is, “clinics” where intravenous drug users can get needles for free, 100 at a time. What did we get for all that cash? The distribution of 17.2 million free needles — 2.3 million

Paradise Residential Services CEO Jocelyne Ininahazwe and her family enjoyed luxury Mercedes brands while the disabled Mainers who relied on the Medicaid agency for 24/7 care were living in squalor, subject to abuse and neglect by non-English speaking staff, including some who were untrained and never subjected to background checks.

Another adult autism MaineCare company was terminated in March — on the same day Gov. Janet Mills attacked Dr. Mehmet Oz's Medicaid fraud crackdown as a political stunt — according to records released Friday by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.