A Massachusetts man is arrested after he punches a trooper on trial for allegedly molesting a young girl.
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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Car crashes into apartment building in Portland
One woman sustains injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening.
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Distributor recalls beef after tests spot E. coli
Town and Country Foods of Greene calls back 2,057 pounds of potentially contaminated beef sold April 4-10.
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House fire adds to Gorham’s arson string
The fire Wednesday was set in a rear wall of an unoccupied house on Dingley Spring Road, and there is ‘no doubt’ it is related to the other fires.
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Maine company involved in beef recall
Town and Country Foods of Greene will recall more than 2,000 pounds of ground and tenderized beef products
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Sanford police investigating reported sexual assault
The 18-year-old woman is not injured during the attack, which took place behind the Sherwin Williams store on Main Street in Springvale
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Equipment failure at CMP wipes out power in downtown Brunswick
Hundreds of homes and downtown businesses along with Bowdoin College go dark during the outage.
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Additional I-295 on-ramp meant to relieve congestion
An $8 million project to cut Route 1 traffic and improve safety gets a mostly positive reaction at a public hearing.
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Man who died in ocean fall had been charged in father’s suicide
The man who Ogunquit police say died after slipping on rocks and falling into the ocean last weekend was accused of helping his father commit suicide in September 2010. The case involving Bruce Brodigan of Somerville, Mass., and his father, 82-year-old George Brodigan, a prominent attorney from West Hartford, Conn., was widely reported by media […]
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Tip from Portland police leads to arrests in Lincoln County
Four people, including three who are the subjects of an armed robbery investigation in Portland, are taken into custody.