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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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Portland police say woman stabbed man in ‘Tent City’
The man suffers superficial wounds in the incident at a homeless encampment off Brighton Avenue.
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Guided tours highlight shortcomings of 2 Portland elementary schools
School officials are lobbying to have a $70 million bond sent to city voters to cover renovations at four schools.
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Man arrested after evacuation of South Portland apartment building
Police says they found materials consistent with a methamphetamine lab in an apartment at the Olde English Village complex near Redbank.
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Westbrook police offer reassurance after anonymous threats against Muslims
Threatening notes with echoes of violence from their homelands leave an immigrant community feeling ‘truly traumatized.’
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Bowdoin lawsuit clouds sale of home linked to Harriet Beecher Stowe
A dispute over the fair market price pits the 87-year-old Florida owner of the 28 College St. house in Brunswick against the college.
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Portland man who wore wig in bank robberies gets 14 years in prison
Jimmy Odong robbed 3 credit unions and 2 banks and has been in custody for more than a year.
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Settlement allows embattled Munjoy Hill condo project to proceed
It’s unclear what design changes were made to the building in order to placate neighbors who had filed a lawsuit against the project, but developers plan to start marketing the units immediately.
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N.H. man being extradited to Maine for alleged baseball bat attack
The York County sheriff says Scott Leonard, 40, also fired a gun during an assault on a motorcyclist in Parsonsfield.
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Lincoln County deputy indicted on 22 counts related to sexual abuse of minors
Kenneth L. Hatch, a 17-year veteran of the department and the 2015 deputy of the year, is accused of abusing three girls and furnishing one of them marijuana.