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 3, 2020
High turnout leads to shortage of Democratic primary ballots at some polling places
Tuesday marked the first time in 20 years that Mainers used a primary system to express their presidential preference, and in some polling places voters had to use photocopied ballots, which must be hand-counted and will delay the election results.
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PublishedFebruary 26, 2020
Student charged with making bomb threat at Lake Region High School
The 15-year-old is charged with terrorizing after school officials are forced to evacuate the school.
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PublishedFebruary 24, 2020
Opponents of new vaccine law take on supporters during televised debate
Supporters of the new law to eliminate religious and philosophical exemptions argue that science supports their position while those who want to see the law repealed say it infringes on parental rights.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2020
Wiscasset man dies when snowmobile crashes on Moosehead Lake
The victim is identified as Gregory Lemar, 59.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2020
Andrew Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World’ back on view at Museum of Modern Art
The New York City museum is not saying why the painting, known for conveying the hardscrabble life of people in rural Maine, was removed from public view or why it has now has been restored to a gallery on the fifth floor.
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PublishedFebruary 20, 2020
Portland man arrested in connection with weekend stabbing in Old Orchard Beach
Akram Ibrahim has been charged with two counts of aggravated assault with a dangerous weapon.
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PublishedFebruary 18, 2020
Father and daughter safe after snowmobiles crash through ice-covered lake
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 16, 2020
Missing Sebago woman found dead in Ossipee River
The body of Sarah McCarthy, 28, who had last been seen late Friday night, was found in a submerged car that had gone off the road in Parsonsfield, authorities say.
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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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