Dennis Hoey is the Portland Press Herald’s night reporter, covering any and all news that breaks in the late afternoon and evening hours. He has been chasing stories after normal business hours in Portland since 2008. Before that he worked in the Press Herald’s Brunswick Bureau where he spent several years covering news in several midcoast towns from Rockland and Wiscasset to Bath and Brunswick. He also covered Bath Iron Works, the Brunswick Naval Air Station, Bowdoin College, and the Maine Yankee Nuclear Power Plant during his years in Brunswick. When he’s not hunting down criminals, politicians or law enforcement officials, Dennis enjoys spending time riding his bicycle, hiking, and cross country skiing.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2023
Substitute teacher accused of assaulting Gray-New Gloucester student
Police say Robert G. Doyle, 67, grabbed a 14-year-old boy by the throat at a high school soccer game Tuesday.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2023
Cumberland County Jail dealing with COVID-19 outbreak
At total of 17 inmates housed at the Portland facility have tested positive for the virus.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2023
City Council recommends changes to Portland’s Civilian Police Review Board
The new board could begin reviewing police internal affairs investigations as soon as February if the ordinance governing it is approved in November.
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PublishedSeptember 25, 2023
Game wardens rescue teen injured in fall on Tumbledown Mountain
Rescuers call in a Maine Forest Service helicopter to evacuate Kyle Lund after he fell about 60 feet and sustained a compound leg fracture Sunday.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2023
Shaw’s in Falmouth robbed; police searching for suspect
Police say the man entered Shaw’s Supermarket at the Falmouth Shopping Center on Saturday morning and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash.
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PublishedSeptember 24, 2023
Portland police ask for help solving case of missing girl last seen in 1971
On the 52nd anniversary of when 16-year-old Cathy Marie Moulton was reported missing, authorities are seeking the public’s help. Moulton was last seen on Forest Avenue.
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PublishedSeptember 20, 2023
Portland mayoral candidates try to earn votes in one of first debates
Housing affordability, homelessness and the scope of mayoral powers were the hot topics discussed by Pious Ali, Justin Costa, Mark Dion, Dylan Pugh and Andrew Zarro at Portand Public Library Wednesday night.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2023
Texas Republican files suit in effort to keep Trump off Maine’s presidential ballot
John Anthony Castro, a write-in Republican presidential candidate, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Portland seeking to disqualify the former president from the 2024 ballot, alleging that he violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2023
Authorities identify body found in South Portland as Freeport woman, say she was killed
Danielle Goodwin, 52, was found near Clarks Pond Parkway on Tuesday. Investigators are seeking help locating the vehicle Goodwin was last seen in, a blue 2016 Honda CRV with Maine license plate 2773VM
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2023
Canaan man convicted of murdering girlfriend dies at Maine prison
Shannon Atwood, whose earliest possible release date would have been August 2054, died Thursday morning at the Mountain View Correctional Facility in Charleston.
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