Susan Sharon
Deputy News DirectorDeputy News Director Susan Sharon is a reporter and editor whose on-air career in public radio began as a student at the University of Montana. Early on, she also worked in commercial television doing a variety of jobs. Susan first came to Maine Public Radio as a State House reporter whose reporting focused on politics, labor and the environment. More recently she's been covering corrections, social justice and human interest stories. Her work, which has been recognized by SPJ, SEJ, PRNDI and the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, has taken her all around the state — deep into the woods, to remote lakes and ponds, to farms and factories and to the Maine State Prison. Over the past two decades, she's contributed more than 100 stories to NPR.
Got a story idea? E-mail Susan: ssharon@mainepublic.org. You can also follow her on twitter @susansharon1
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While the presidential race is consuming much of the political oxygen nationally, Maine has a closely watched congressional contest that could help decide which party controls the U.S. House. Voters will also choose a state flag design and bond measures. -
Eighteen chairs, each holding a bouquet of white flowers, lined the stage of the Lewiston Colisee Friday night for an event to mark the first anniversary of the Lewiston mass shooting. -
An ex-girlfriend of the man responsible for the mass shootings at both a bowling alley and a bar in Lewiston last October says she was not planning to be at either location the night of the attacks and doesn't believe she was a target. -
Senators King and Collins are among two dozen lawmakers asking the General Accounting Office to review Department of Defense research into traumatic brain injuries and to identify those service members most at risk of blast exposure. -
Auburn city officials joined family and friends of Joe Walker and Tricia Asselin for a short ceremony and the unveiling of signs naming the two ballfields for each of them. -
In an an "after-action" report submitted in January, Portland police suggested the county's regional tactical team reeked of alcohol and almost ran over fellow officers responding to the manhunt. -
At the ceremony, 21 men graduated with associate and bachelor's degrees in liberal studies. The graduates and their friends and family said the prison education program has changed their lives. -
Nicole and James Herling, the sister and brother-in-law of Robert Card II, broke down as they began their testimony by apologizing to the victims of the shootings that killed 18 and injured more than a dozen others. -
The commission investigating the Lewiston shootings is expected to hear from members of Robert Card's family at its next public meeting on Thursday. -
Just-In-Time Recreation reopened on Friday for the first time since the mass shootings on Oct. 25, 2023 that killed 18 people. Eight people were killed at the bowling alley.
