Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor, Author at Bangor Daily News

Maine state trooper was suspended for punching handcuffed woman in the face

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor and Callie Ferguson July 22, 2026July 22, 2026

The Maine State Police sustained an excessive force complaint for the first time in a decade three months after a Maine Monitor/Bangor Daily News investigation called its practices into question.

See the 97 billionaires and their spouses backing Susan Collins

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor June 12, 2026June 12, 2026

Nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have donated to reelect Susan Collins

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor June 12, 2026June 12, 2026

Police and Courts

Maine court wrongly terminated a mother’s parental rights to 5 children, high court rules

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor May 22, 2026May 25, 2026

Read a full archive of Graham Platner’s deleted Reddit comments

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor May 13, 2026May 13, 2026

I’m a Maine reporter who went to high school with Graham Platner. Here’s what explains his success.

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor April 14, 2026April 20, 2026

How Wall Street drove the Maine paper industry’s collapse

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor March 26, 2026March 25, 2026

Police and Courts

US Customs and Border Protection establishes Bangor office in building owned by Dana White

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor March 21, 2026March 23, 2026

Police and Courts

ICE agents detain civil engineer in Portland, leave his car running in the street with a smashed window

by Rose Lundy, The Maine Monitor and Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor January 22, 2026January 22, 2026

Police and Courts

State police ‘not a person,’ can’t be sued in police brutality case, AG argues

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor January 12, 2026January 12, 2026

Police and Courts

District attorney drops drug trafficking case after violating discovery rules

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor December 15, 2025December 16, 2025

Police and Courts

Judge rebukes slow district attorney’s office as prosecutors across Maine buckle under high caseloads

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor November 10, 2025November 10, 2025

Police and Courts

Lawyer calls for criminal investigation into troopers who beat a man in handcuffs

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor and Callie Ferguson September 30, 2025September 30, 2025

Police and Courts

Janet Mills quiet on BDN/Maine Monitor investigation into violent state police arrest

by Callie Ferguson and Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor September 19, 2025September 26, 2025

Police and Courts

Beating of handcuffed man casts doubt on Maine State Police’s perfect record of clearing officers

by Callie Ferguson and Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor September 18, 2025September 18, 2025

Police and Courts

A trooper repeatedly punched a handcuffed man in the face. The Maine State Police promoted him.

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor and Callie Ferguson September 17, 2025September 17, 2025

Police and Courts

Maine police described a combative suspect trying to escape. Video shows otherwise.

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor and Callie Ferguson September 17, 2025September 17, 2025

Police and Courts

Watch the footage of Justin Savage’s arrest and read how police described it

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor and Callie Ferguson September 17, 2025September 17, 2025

Police and Courts

A woman hit her son in a grocery store parking lot. She says it was a spanking. The state says it was child abuse.

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor June 23, 2025June 23, 2025

New federal data show Maine’s foster care population grew at the fastest rate in the nation

by Josh Keefe, The Maine Monitor June 16, 2025June 18, 2025