Maine’s Republican Party called Tuesday for a state investigation into the operations of a soon-to-be-defunct home weatherization program, alleging that it benefited one of the Legislature’s top Democrats. House Minority Leader Emily Cain, D-Orono, denied the allegations against her and characterized the Republicans’ charges “as a pathetic political distraction from what’s really going on in […]
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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Polar Dip raises $33,000 for Camp Sunshine
More than 100 people plunge into 32-degree water at East End Beach in the annual fundraiser.
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Feature Obituary: Amy Keck, 36, attorney devoted to helping the poor
Amy Keck represented hundreds of underprivileged clients during her 11-year legal career, winning a remarkable 94 percent of her cases, according to her associates. In 2009, she received the Thomas P. Downing Award, an honor given out annually to an individual in Maine who has provided exceptional legal services. Ms. Keck died Saturday at the […]
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Feature Obituary: Robert Paul LeBlanc, loved his family, sports, the great outdoors
Robert Paul LeBlanc Sr. excelled in football at all levels — high school, college and professional — but like many athletes who play a contact sport, there was always the risk of a concussion. Just before he died, Mr. LeBlanc agreed to donate his brain to Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy […]
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Pingree argues for keeping BNAS commissary
The congresswoman says the Topsham facility and the Navy Exchange in Brunswick should remain open after the base closes.
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Portland man charged with dealing cocaine
Police seize 22 grams of crack cocaine and about 60 grams of powdered cocaine with an estimated street value of $8,200.
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Bell rings for ultimate fighting in Maine
The first sanctioned bouts since the state legalized mixed martial arts competitions are coming to Portland, cages and all.
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Ill Mainer flown home in Sussman’s jet dies
Anthony Napoleone, 28, who was paralyzed, suffered from an incurable staph infection.
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Drug agents arrest Massachusetts man for dealing crack cocaine in Saco
Police say the man has been selling crack cocaine in the Biddeford-Saco area for at least six months.
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It’s final, sculpture in Old Port won’t get a new life
City councilors unanimously decide that a controversial piece of public art should be dismantled rather than moved.