Robert Kennedy, 38, of Bangor was fatally shot early Friday in an incident that left a second person wounded.
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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Sanford police release video of robbery attempt at Super 8 Motel
Police say they hope to receive tips that will lead to an arrest.
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Passamaquoddy tribal members join effort to find body of missing canoeist
Majik Francis, 23, who lived on the Pleasant Point reservation, was last seen Sunday clinging to a capsized canoe in Half Moon Cove.
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No ice skating at Portland’s Deering Oaks this winter
The park’s 3.5-acre pond will be closed while construction crews reinforce the bottom with gravel and a concrete mat.
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Four N.H. residents charged with robbery after incidents in York and Wells
Three women and a man are arrested after an attempted purse snatching in York and a convenience store holdup in Wells.
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Waldoboro man accused of sexually abusing a minor
Police receive a report that a 14-year-old boy had been abused by a man he’d recently met.
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Coast Guard searches for missing canoeist near Eastport
A distress call was received just after noon Sunday saying that a canoe had capsized.
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Southern Maine seeing first snow today; morning commute could be treacherous
The National Weather Service tweeted that precipitation officially turned to snow at the Gray office just after midnight this morning.
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Republican from Brunswick plans to challenge Pingree in 2016
Mark Irving Holbrook, who says he wants to bring “some sanity to Washington, D.C.,” files papers to run against the four-term representative of Maine’s 1st Congressional District.
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Three charged with dealing heroin after Biddeford police report 2 apparent overdose deaths
A day after the bodies are found, police and drug agents raid a motel in Saco and arrest three men on charges of aggravated trafficking in heroin.