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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PublishedJanuary 12, 2017
Portland mother charged with selling heroin
Her children are taken into state custody after the raid on a Grant Street apartment.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2017
Police won’t reopen 1993 investigation into woman’s death in Cape Elizabeth
Police who investigated a murder-suicide in Hebron last month conclude that the death of the shooter’s first wife 23 years ago at Two Lights State Park was an accident.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2017
Old Orchard Beach man escapes from pickup seconds before train hits
Police say the vehicle got stuck on the tracks at a crossing and was hit by a southbound Downeaster. Train service was delayed for hours.
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PublishedJanuary 11, 2017
Portland police believe man jumped to death from his apartment window
The identity of the 38-year-old man who lived at Burnham Arms Apartments was not being released pending notification of next of kin.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2017
York sets aside $25,000 to fight Maine Turnpike Authority on toll plaza
The town and a citizens group oppose the authority’s plan to build a $40 million toll plaza 1½ miles north of the existing one.
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PublishedJanuary 10, 2017
Hedgehogs, hunting wear and a host of peculiar bills in the Maine Legislature
Those are just some of the more unusual legislative requests that will be considered this year.
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PublishedJanuary 8, 2017
Portland police seek public’s help in solving 2010 cold case homicide
A Portland woman was shot in her Rackleff Street home by a masked intruder and died more than a month later.
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PublishedJanuary 5, 2017
Susan Collins and others criticize Republican plan to defund Planned Parenthood
The effort to withdraw an estimated $400 million from the agency would restrict women's access to health care, they say.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2017
K. Horton Specialty Foods, a fixture of the Public Market House in Portland, will close
The cheese and food specialty shop, which has been in business for 18 years, is running a cash-only clearance sale.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2017
A Bath-built schooner is coming home for good, 110 years later
The two-masted Mary E was built in 1906 and is going to the Maine Maritime Museum to complete an ongoing restoration for public exhibit.
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