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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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Amber Alert issued for N.H. boy allegedly abducted by father
Police say Jeremiah Grant, a registered sex offender from Maine who now lives in Somersworth, New Hampshire, took his son and may have headed for Maine.
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PublishedJuly 16, 2015
Westbrook man charged with killing teenager at Portland recording studio
Johnny Ouch, 20, is accused of murder in the shooting death of 19-year-old Trey Arsenault in May, and police won’t say if more arrests will follow.
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PublishedJuly 15, 2015
Former President George H.W. Bush in fair condition after fall
His spokesman says Bush broke a bone in his neck in an accident at his Kennebunkport home, but the ‘injury is not life-threatening.’
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PublishedJuly 14, 2015
Crash ties up traffic for four hours on Maine Turnpike in South Portland
Both southbound lanes were closed after an SUV collided with a tractor-trailer hauling wood chips, state police say.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2015
Coast Guard swimmer saves couple from waters off Southwest Harbor
Petty Officer Calvin Legge dived into the water after the elderly couple ran aground and then overturned the skiff they were rowing toward a Coast Guard boat.
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PublishedJuly 14, 2015
Peaks Island woman sentenced to 3 years in heroin trafficking conspiracy
Ashley Gross had pleaded guilty to participating in a ring that took phone orders from customers in Maine to whom they would deliver the drugs.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2015
Wildfire burns 4 acres of forestland in Topsham
The blaze was one of three wildfires reported Monday in Maine, the forest service says.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2015
George Mitchell’s son, 17, accidentally starts wildfire on Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert’s fire chief says the teen was playing with a lighter when he sparked a blaze that burned about an acre of woods and fields on the former U.S. senator’s property.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2015
Maine fisherman catches a whale of a lobster
He poses for a photo holding up a lobster that is about 3 feet long that he estimates weighs 20 pounds.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2015
LePage holding 51 more bills as dispute over veto deadline goes on
Two senators – a Republican and a Democrat – seek the attorney general’s opinion ‘regarding the options the chief executive’s office has.’
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