Nan Cumming has decided to leave after serving Portland Trails for 12 years
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.
Bowdoin College to discuss Occupy Wall Street protest
Students from the prestigious liberal arts school organized the event to raise awareness about some of the inequalities that exist in America
Wreath convoy to arrive in Portland this Sunday
The convoy will make a brief stop at Cheverus High School before heading south to Arlington National Cemetery
Cape Elizabeth woman injured in turnpike crash
Turnpike traffic is backed up for hours between Gray and Auburn following a collision between a sedan and a tractor-trailer.
Songs for safe harbor
A Portland church hosts a fundraiser to help asylum-seekers and their families make the U.S. their home.
Occupy Maine decides to seek Portland permit
Members of the Occupy encampment in Lincoln Park agreed Sunday to apply for a city permit that, if approved, would allow the demonstrators to remain in the park through the winter.
City employees sue over school board policy
Under a 2010 rule, South Portland workers can’t run for the board unless they give up their city jobs.
Less than 200 customers are still without power
Central Maine Power Co. restores power to nearly 28,000 customers in a single day
Lyman man is arrested after fighting with a sheriff’s deputy
Kenneth Huff gets into a fight with a deputy after police try to take him into custody for failure to pay fines
Computers stolen from Massabesic High School are recovered
The computers are found but the person or persons who stole the laptops remain at large