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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PublishedNovember 16, 2015
NTSB ends search for El Faro’s voyage data recorder
The hunt for the device that could help explain the ship’s sinking is called off after a final five-day effort with a remotely operated vehicle.
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PublishedNovember 15, 2015
Bates College student recounts attack outside Paris soccer stadium
‘All of a sudden, they have taken our freedom from us,’ Emilia Calderon says of the terrorists.
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PublishedNovember 12, 2015
Search crews find bridge of sunken El Faro, but data recorder still missing
The black box contains information that can help investigators ‘paint an electronic portrait’ of the cargo ship’s sinking in Hurricane Joaquin.
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PublishedNovember 8, 2015
Details about fatal Buxton crash held until DA reviews facts
Police won’t say who was driving or give the names of two passengers.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2015
Scarborough man faces multiple charges after seizure of guns, cash and police vest
Police say Bryan Keith Garcia failed to register with the town as a sex offender, and had $19,000 and a gun equipped with a light and laser sight.
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PublishedNovember 5, 2015
Poland man surrenders after barricading himself in house following domestic incident
Police spent hours outside the home of Michael Winslow Sr., 65, who now faces a variety of domestic violence charges.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2015
El Faro’s bridge – and ‘black box’ – separated from wreckage during sinking
Despite the setback, the NTSB says it will keep searching for the navigation bridge and the voyage data recorder, which would help investigators determine why the ship sank.
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PublishedNovember 3, 2015
State police search site in East Millinocket for evidence in cold case murder
Officers search along power lines near Schenck High School, where the body of Joyce McLain was found in 1980.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2015
Driver arrested in South Thomaston after chase ends with crash
Brandon Demmons of Rockland drove off the road five times as he was chased by police for speeding in a school zone, says The Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
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PublishedOctober 27, 2015
Search for the El Faro turns up nothing so far
A Navy vessel is using a towed detector to try to locate signals from the voyage data recorder carried by the ship, which sank Oct. 1 with 33 aboard, including four Maine residents.
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