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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PublishedMarch 21, 2022
Two Maine groups make case for decriminalizing drug use and possession
The Maine Center for Economic Policy and the Maine ACLU issue a report arguing that the money it costs to incarcerate drug users would be better spent treating them.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2022
Maine senators return to U.S. following weekend visit to Germany, Poland
Susan Collins and Angus King were part of a Senate delegation that met with German officials, representatives from humanitarian aid agencies, and Ukrainians forced to flee their homeland following Russia’s invasion of their country.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2022
Mills proposes an additional $19.7 million to support state’s behavioral health system
The governor wants to add the funding to her supplemental budget.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2022
Maine’s U.S. senators traveling to Poland and Germany
Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King will be part of a bipartisan group of 10 senators planning to meet this weekend with foreign leaders and Ukrainians living in Polish refugee camps.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2022
Herd of bison escapes farm, roams free in Aroostook County
The animals were later captured, but one had to be put down after getting hit by a truck, police say.
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PublishedMarch 16, 2022
Busiest stretch of highway in Maine shutting down to traffic next month
I-295 between Falmouth and Portland will close for 64 hours while crews install a new bridge over Veranda Street in Portland.
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PublishedMarch 14, 2022
Students steer school bus to safety in Topsham after driver collapses at the wheel
The driver, identified as Arthur McDougall of Lisbon, died Monday. Fourteen Mt. Ararat Middle and High school students were on board at the time.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2022
Jet’s collision with bird forces emergency landing at Portland jetport
The regional carrier had 52 passengers aboard when a bird struck the nose of the plane Sunday morning, an airport spokesman says.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2022
Maine lobster industry to receive $17 million in aid from federal government
Part of a $1.5 trillion spending package, the funding will be used to help lobstermen comply with new federal regulations designed to protect the endangered North Atlantic right whale.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2022
Washington County man charged with murder in father’s stabbing
Authorities say that Darren Laney Jr. killed his 62-year-old father at his home in Big Lake Township.
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