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 1, 2011
Waterboro man charged with terrorizing shop employees
Kenneth Briggs Jr. yells at workers and threatens to kill them before he is taken into custody, police say.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2011
Big Bang theory coming to former Loring building
A Portland-based company will use nearly 300 pounds of dynamite to demolish a building at the former Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, one of the largest implosion projects ever attempted in Maine. Engineered Products of Maine, which is located on Riverside Street, says it will implode the four-story Central Heat Plant at 11 a.m. […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2011
Victims added to toll from domestic abuse
The fatal shootings this week of Renee Sandora, 27, of New Gloucester and her friend, 28-year-old Trevor Mills of New Bedford, Mass., brought the number of homicides in Maine this year to 17. They also raised another disturbing fact, one that abuse prevention advocates say needs more attention. Of those homicides, more than half – […]
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PublishedJuly 28, 2011
Bridge closed: Maine-N.H. span shuts about a year early
Memorial Bridge will be replaced, but some on Route 1 fear loss of business for the next three years.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2011
In Maine, 34 post offices may be closed
Most of those targeted in Maine are in rural areas; 3,700 could be shut across the U.S.
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PublishedJuly 26, 2011
Feature Obituary: Myrtle Storer, 90, devout English teacher, taught dogs to pray
Even as a child, Myrtle Clarice Storer would persuade her classmates to sit down as she gave them a lesson in whatever it was the young girl felt it was important for them to learn. That early on-the-job training would lead to a long and productive teaching career that spanned 33 years. “She always wanted […]
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PublishedJuly 25, 2011
Bodies of two women found in Portland senior housing complex
The women, both in their late 60s, are found in an apartment at Longfellow Commons
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PublishedJuly 15, 2011
Forty Under 40 honored
MaineToday Media recognizes 40 young professionals during a boat tour of Casco Bay and its islands.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2011
Windham fire official’s crash injuries minor
Deputy Chief John Wescott suffers some bumps and bruises in a crash while responding to an emergency.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2011
Busy bridge won’t close as new one is erected
Two designs are being considered for the new bridge next to Martin’s Point Bridge.
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