Dennis Hoey

Press Herald

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.

Latest

Published
May 31, 2018

Thefts of bells from ocean buoys are putting lives at risk, Coast Guard says

Authorities ask the public for help in identifying whoever has removed brass gongs and bells from 6 navigation buoys off the Maine coast.
Published
May 30, 2018

Portland artist Zoo Cain loses roughly 100 of his works in Valley Street fire

He is grateful that everyone got out of the building safely and is taking his loss in stride, saying ‘When you are 66 years old, you can’t get too attached to anything.’
Published
May 30, 2018

Mother charged after Waterboro crash injures child who was not in a car seat

Jacquelyn Griffin, 30, of Plainsville, Massachusetts, faces an aggravated driving to endanger charge following the one-car crash Wednesday.
Published
May 30, 2018

Second driver charged in alleged drag-racing crash in Buxton

Thomas Dewitt, 56, of Buxton, who was hospitalized after the crash last week, is charged Wednesday with driving to endanger, Buxton police say.
Published
May 29, 2018

Portland firefighters battle 2 major blazes on a hot afternoon

A man who works near the building on Valley Street said the entire third floor was engulfed in flames.
Published
May 17, 2018

Maine college holding ‘Zombie Survival Camp’ this summer

The weeklong camp will teach a variety of skills, from orienteering to bowhunting.
Published
May 17, 2018

Westbrook fire does little damage, but clogs afternoon commute

Part of Main Street is shut down for about an hour while firefighters extinguish a garage fire.
Published
May 16, 2018

Judge rules ranked-choice voting group can’t intervene in lawsuit to block it

U.S. District Court Judge Jon D. Levy said the group’s participation ‘would complicate a case that badly needs to be expedited’ with the June 12 primary less than a month away.
Published
May 15, 2018

Attorney general accuses 2 men of racially motivated attack in Biddeford

The men have been charged with aggravated assault and now face a civil complaint accusing them of violating the state’s Civil Rights Act.
Published
May 15, 2018

Photos reveal multiple rare right whales off York County coast

Scientists from the New England Aquarium used photographs to confirm that the whale photographed off Long Sands Beach in York was different from the one observed off the coast of Wells.

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