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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PublishedAugust 15, 2016
Portland man who wore wig in bank robberies gets 14 years in prison
Jimmy Odong robbed 3 credit unions and 2 banks and has been in custody for more than a year.
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PublishedAugust 11, 2016
Settlement allows embattled Munjoy Hill condo project to proceed
It’s unclear what design changes were made to the building in order to placate neighbors who had filed a lawsuit against the project, but developers plan to start marketing the units immediately.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2016
N.H. man being extradited to Maine for alleged baseball bat attack
The York County sheriff says Scott Leonard, 40, also fired a gun during an assault on a motorcyclist in Parsonsfield.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2016
Lincoln County deputy indicted on 22 counts related to sexual abuse of minors
Kenneth L. Hatch, a 17-year veteran of the department and the 2015 deputy of the year, is accused of abusing three girls and furnishing one of them marijuana.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2016
Four finalists pitch proposals for public art in Congress Square Park
The winner, who will be chosen by the end of August, will create a conceptual design for the project that could be ready by spring.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2016
Navy ship will try to retrieve data recorder from El Faro
The recovery operation will be closely watched here in Maine because several crew members had close ties to the state.
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PublishedAugust 4, 2016
South Portland student who got grief for wearing Trump hat appears front and center at rally
The Maine Republican Party and the Trump campaign arrange for Connor Mullen to sit on stage just feet from the Republican nominee during his speech Thursday.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2016
Search resumes for Hollis Center man presumed dead after fall from pontoon boat on Long Lake
The Maine Warden Service says the man, 19, was riding in the front of a boat rented by his family and a family from Texas.
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PublishedAugust 3, 2016
Norwegian tourist charged in death threats against Portland police
Espen Brungodt, 28, is arrested at a Portland hotel, unarmed, after emails and tweets discuss shooting officers from a parking garage. Brungodt’s father says his son has a form of autism.
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PublishedAugust 2, 2016
Massachusetts men charged with stealing from ATMs in Berwick
Police say David Barker and Efrain Montero used power tools and disabled the alarm system at Northeast Credit Union’s ATM kiosk in June.
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