The Turnpike has been reduced to one lane in Gray after a truck overturned this afternoon.
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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Feature Obituary: Charles R. Callanan, 86, devoted to education of children
He wanted to make a difference in the lives of others, and those who knew Charles R. “Chuck” Callanan said he accomplished his goal with flying colors. “Service to others was the crux of his life,” said his daughter, Martha Callanan of Sante Fe, N.M. “He was about people, about connecting with them.” Mr. Callanan, […]
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Mother of two charged in bank robbery
Police say Jamilee Kus of Waterville was apprehended at gunpoint Sunday on the Maine Turnpike in Scarborough.
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Waterville teenager helps win vow from magazine
Her petition criticizing Seventeen’s body-image message prompts it to limit photo retouching.
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One person arrested after crash in Westbrook
Three people are injured in the collision.
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Driver loses control, slams car into Saco supermarket
The vehicle comes to rest against an interior wall, but shoppers and the motorist, 77, are not hurt.
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Trooper to appeal prison term in sex-crime case
After being convicted of a dozen sex crimes involving a minor, Gregory Vrooman of Nobleboro will spend 21 months behind bars.
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Elderly man drives car through doors of Saco Shaw’s
Police say it is lucky that no one was injured during the mishap.
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Maine teen shot in road-rage assault
A teenager from Maine was shot and wounded Sunday afternoon in Massachusetts during what police are describing as a road rage incident on Interstate 495.
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Feature obituary: The Rev. Robert Smith, 91, former pastor in Sanford
His moving sermons, delivered in his distinctive booming voice, touched hundreds of lives during the 37 years he served as a Baptist minister at churches in Maine and Massachusetts. The Rev. Robert M. Smith, a longtime resident of Ocean Park – an oceanfront community in Old Orchard Beach – died Wednesday after a long illness. The […]