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
January 15, 2020

Police charge Standish couple with operating meth lab

Authorities say Jeffrey Makela and Nicole Makela were manufacturing the drug on the property where they lived with their 4 children – a 3-week-old baby, a 15-month-old boy and girls 10 and 12.
Published
January 14, 2020

Portland Planning Board approves 4-story hotel on Congress Street

The 47-room Longfellow hotel will be built on the site of a convenience store and gas station in the West End.
Published
January 14, 2020

Maine State Police: New Hampshire man passed out with baby in car

Christopher Dube is arrested in Lebanon and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and possession of a heroin/fentanyl.
Published
January 13, 2020

Coffee by Design settles trademark infringement lawsuit

The defendants agree to a court order that will require them to stop using CBD as their trademark.
Published
January 13, 2020

Portland woman assaulted after being followed through Old Port

Police say the woman was punched and knocked to the ground.
Published
January 13, 2020

Tractor-trailer swipes school bus in Limington

None of the students on the School School Administrative District 6 bus were injured.
Published
January 12, 2020

Cornish man seriously injured in Limington crash

A car driven by Shawn Harmon, 29, left the road and struck a large pine tree, the York County Sheriff’s Office says.
Published
January 12, 2020

Gray man charged with making several false public reports to authorities

The most recent hoax involved a 911 call that said a snowmobile crashed through the ice on Crystal Lake, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says.
Published
January 12, 2020

Sunday’s storm markedly different in northern, southern Maine

A foot of snow fell in Aroostook County and heavy sleet north of Bangor, while precipitation was limited to rain in southern Maine, where Portland set another high-temperature record.
Published
January 7, 2020

Maine’s members of Congress concerned for safety of U.S. troops in Iraq

Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, and Reps. Jared Golden and Chellie Pingree also express hope that the president will use the apparent limited nature of Iran’s strike to de-escalate tensions in the region.