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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PublishedFebruary 18, 2020
Father and daughter safe after snowmobiles crash through ice-covered lake near Baxter State Park
The Connecticut residents were treated for mild hypothermia, but their snowmobiles ended up at the bottom of North Twin Lake near Baxter State Park.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2020
Victim in Scarborough Walmart shooting undergoes surgery
No one has been arrested in connection with the shooting, which critically injured a Saco man, according to Maine State Police.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2020
Man is struck and killed by Amtrak train in Falmouth
Downeaster passenger service was delayed for nearly three hours as a result of the crash, but nobody aboard the train was injured.
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2020
Coronavirus test on person from Maine comes back negative
The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention received confirmation of the tests results on Thursday.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2020
Cumberland County sheriff, U.S. attorney at odds over immigration detention
U.S. Attorney Halsey Frank says law enforcement agencies in ‘sanctuary jurisdictions’ are ‘imperiling the public,’ but Sheriff Kevin Joyce calls that misleading and says he won’t comply with immigration detainer requests without probable cause.
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PublishedFebruary 11, 2020
Study shows 40% of deer tick samples tested positive for Lyme disease
The first-of-its-kind study by the University of Maine’s Cooperative Extension Tick Lab included more than 2,000 ticks submitted last year by residents of all 16 counties.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2020
Woolwich man indicted in accident that killed skateboarder in Portland
Ernest M. Patti will face as much as 5 years in prison if he’s convicted of leaving the scene of the accident last summer in which Wayne Harwood was killed.
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PublishedFebruary 10, 2020
Public health officials test first person in Maine for deadly coronavirus
The test was done because the person showed symptoms of a lower respiratory illness and had either traveled to China recently or come in contact with someone known to have the virus. Results are expected in 1 to 5 days.
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PublishedFebruary 9, 2020
Attempted-murder suspect wanted in Maine arrested in Pennsylvania
Caribou police had been searching for Adrian Covington since Jan. 11, when he allegedly shot and wounded a man on River Road.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2020
Wiscasset man charged with breaking into home, barricading ex-girlfriend, children
The woman’s teenage son tried to defend his mother with stun gun, police say.
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