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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PublishedDecember 5, 2013
State to Portland: Decision to move DHHS offices final
An administration official and the mayor clash at a meeting over the move out of the city and trade criticisms afterward.
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PublishedDecember 3, 2013
Scarborough voters overturn hotly debated leash law
The new restrictions had come after an endangered piping plover chick was killed by a dog last summer.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2013
Gorham police seek man who allegedly rammed SUV into his former fiancee
Police say the suspect, Jeremy Whynot of Limington, hit the woman with the vehicle and then fled. The victim was treated and released from the hospital.
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PublishedNovember 27, 2013
Stolen iPhone leads to arrest of five in York
Police track the phone to a home, where they find narcotics, drug paraphernalia and several weapons.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2013
Rain to make Wednesday travel tricky for Mainers
Weather forecasters are predicting up to 3 inches of rain along the coast, and up to 3½ inches in the mountains.
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PublishedNovember 25, 2013
Maine asks Supreme Court to uphold health-clinic buffers
The Supreme Court’s ruling on a Mass. case could affect a similar law just enacted in Portland.
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PublishedNovember 21, 2013
Not your typical rush-hour on I-295: ‘Oh, wow, it’s a plane’
There were no collisions or injuries as a two-seat aircraft landed on the highway Thursday evening and taxied for a half-mile. ‘It was amazing,’ a state trooper says.
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PublishedNovember 20, 2013
Biddeford police seek driver who struck nun
The incident severely injures an 89-year-old member of the Good Shepherd Sisters.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2013
Dayton votes to pull out of RSU 23
With only Old Orchard Beach remaining, the union, which once included Saco, will end with the school year.
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PublishedNovember 19, 2013
Camden man held in stabbing
Mass. police charge him with a weekend stabbing of a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student.
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