Dennis Hoey

Portland Press Herald

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.

Latest

Published
October 3, 2023

Emergency alert system test planned for Wednesday

Cell phones, television and radio stations should received the test alert at around 2:20 p.m.
Published
October 2, 2023

State distributes more than $166 million in pandemic food aid benefits

The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (p-EBT) cards will benefit more than 150,000 Maine students.
Published
September 28, 2023

Wyeth artwork, memorabilia lost in devastating Port Clyde fire

The Wyeth paintings were in Linda Bean’s Maine Wyeth Art Gallery above the Port Clyde General Store, which was destroyed in a fast-moving blaze that also claimed the Dip Net Restaurant and the Monhegan Boat Line offices and gift shop.
Published
September 28, 2023

Jodi Phinney, co-founder of Maine Doulas, dies at 54

Phinney, who had been battling ALS, helped hundreds of mothers through pregnancy into parenting.
Published
September 25, 2023

Game wardens rescue teen injured in fall on Tumbledown Mountain

Rescuers call in a Maine Forest Service helicopter to evacuate Kyle Lund after he fell about 60 feet and sustained a compound leg fracture Sunday.
Published
September 24, 2023

Portland police ask for help solving case of missing girl last seen in 1971

On the 52nd anniversary of when 16-year-old Cathy Marie Moulton was reported missing, authorities are seeking the public’s help. Moulton was last seen on Forest Avenue.
Published
September 7, 2023

Texas Republican files suit in effort to keep Trump off Maine’s presidential ballot

John Anthony Castro, a write-in Republican presidential candidate, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Portland seeking to disqualify the former president from the 2024 ballot, alleging that he violated the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Published
September 5, 2023

Shark filmed swimming off Hermit Island in Phippsburg

Marine scientists who viewed the video say it’s likely a blue shark, though one said it could be a thresher shark.
Published
August 29, 2023

Florida mother kills 2 children, herself over court order to return son to father in Maine, sheriff says

Brandy Hutchins killed her children after a court ordered her to turn over custody of 10-year-old Aiden Hutchins to her ex-husband, Nick Hutchins, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd says.
Published
August 29, 2023

How do Maine police determine if a driver is pot-impaired? They have 2 options

They rely on Drug Recognition Experts and blood tests to determine marijuana use but are hampered by limitations of drug-detecting technology and the lack of an agreed upon impairment limit.