A blogger, who claims to have coined the phrase ‘Rage Baking’ in 2015, says the book overlooks her efforts to fight racial injustice through cooking.
Dennis Hoey
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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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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Topsham man killed in biking accident at state park
Rodney Reed’s mountain bike went off a trail Monday at Bradbury Mountain in Pownal.
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Portland district says renovating 4 elementary schools would cost $21 million more than voters approved
The school board blames sharp increases in construction costs for the funding shortage.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News, The Forecaster
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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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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Vassalboro man dies in fire started by malfunctioning toaster
A state trooper who lives near the victim tried to resuscitate the man, but was unable to save his life.
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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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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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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.