Darcie N. McElwee, a longtime employee in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Maine, has been nominated to be the state’s top federal prosecutor.

Darcie McElwee has been a federal prosecutor since 2002. She will replace Halsey Frank, 62, of Portland who resigned in February after working in the office for more than two decades.

The U.S. Senate voted Tuesday to approve Darcie McElwee’s nomination to serve as U.S. attorney for Maine. McElwee’s nomination was advanced by the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday and ...

With the new administration in Washington, Darcie McElwee is out as Maine's U.S. attorney. Craig Wolff, now first assistant, will be the state's interim U.S. attorney.

AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - Maine’s top federal law enforcement official, U.S. Attorney Darcie McElwee, is trying to curb the state’s record as a significant source of guns used to commit crimes ...

McElwee has worked in Maine's US Attorney's Office for nearly two decades, most recently as assistant US attorney. She grew up in Caribou, a city in far northern Aroostook County. Three years after ...

Darcie McElwee, U.S. District Attorney for the District of Maine, said authorities have shut down “dozens of operations” over the past months.

Senator Susan Collins says Assistant U.S. Attorney Darcie McElwee was approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee last week. Her nomination now awaits consideration by the full Senate.

The false reports threatened to jeopardize a fish species that is vitally important as commercial lobster bait, said federal prosecutor Darcie McElwee. Herring are unloaded from a fishing boat in ...