David Hench

Portland Press Herald

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Published
October 30, 2014

LePage says negotiations with Kaci Hickox break down over Ebola quarantine

Defying the state’s order, the nurse who returned to Maine after treating Ebola patients in West Africa takes a bike ride with her boyfriend in Fort Kent.
Published
October 29, 2014

Quarantined nurse emerges, plans legal fight if state gets court order

Outside a house in Fort Kent, Kaci Hickox says the state’s restrictions are unwarranted as health officials prepare to ask a judge to enforce them.
Published
October 29, 2014

Quarantine response to Ebola impinges on civil rights

Case of Maine nurse Kaci Hickox typifies clash between individual liberty and what public health officials deem necessary.
Published
October 27, 2014

Spider-Man-masked bandit robs store in Auburn

The man threatened a clerk with a knife and demanded money just before 2 a.m. Monday.
Published
October 27, 2014

Maine health officials expect Fort Kent nurse to comply with in-home quarantine

The LePage administration says it will take “appropriate action” if Kaci Hickox, who had been working with Ebola patients in Sierra Leone, doesn’t abide by quarantine.
Published
October 14, 2014

Jeep in hayride crash to undergo vehicle autopsy

Maine State Police will look at the mechanics of the vehicle that crashed Saturday, killing Cassidy Charette of Oakland.
Published
October 9, 2014

Portland police seek person of interest in alleged child assault

Police say a man broke into an East Bayside apartment this morning and assaulted a young child.
Published
October 8, 2014

Maine sex offender serving 20 years in prison dies

Police are reviewing the death of Ronald Leslie Farrar, 65, who was an inmate at the state prison in Warren, but say it appears to be from natural causes.
Published
October 7, 2014

Federal grant to fund four agents to fight meth in Maine

The grant is the third-largest nationally from the U.S. Department of Justice and is aimed at combating meth manufacture and use.
Published
October 7, 2014

Two charged with robbing, beating taxi driver in Saco

As the driver tried to collect his $10 fare, the men punched him in the body and head and then demanded all his money, police said.