The 250-foot-tall crane will spend the next 11 months or so behind the Congress Street post office.
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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Portland police identify driver of vehicle killed in crash on Washington Avenue
Sasa Strejcek, 21, of Portland was killed in the crash sometime late Tuesday or early Wednesday.
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Freeport man killed in jump from Interstate 295 overpass
Maine State Police said the man hit a truck passing beneath the bridge in Richmond.
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Portland council postpones action on new shelter licensing rules
The 9-0 votes comes after a dire warning from the city staff about a shelter system that is overwhelmed with an influx of asylum seekers.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State, News
66,000 Mainers enroll in first year of state health insurance marketplace
More than 80% of them are receiving financial assistance.
Posted inLocal & State, New England
Portland man convicted of dealing drugs 8 years ago is shot dead in Rhode Island
Biniam Tsegai, 35, had been released from federal prison in 2020. He and another man were shot after leaving an illegal after-hours club.
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Holiday storm causes power outages, flooding and accidents
The storm brough heavy snow to some areas, high wind gusts to others, but spared most of the state from widespread, long-running power outages.
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Electric utilities, MEMA on high alert as winter storm bears down on Maine
Power outages are likely Monday because of two factors: heavy, wet snow over inland areas and wind gusts reaching up to 65 mph along the coast.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Schools and Education
More Maine schools go remote amid record-setting number of infections
School Administrative District 51, which covers Cumberland and North Yarmouth, is the latest district to announce it has been forced into remote learning.
Posted inElections, Nation & World, Politics
King says supporting voter rights bill is most important vote he’ll ever take
Maine’s independent U.S. senator has been campaigning hard on behalf of sweeping voting and elections legislation that he says is necessary to protect the nation’s democracy.