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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PublishedOctober 27, 2010
Portland law firm files suit, aims to launch class action
Some 500 independent health care providers claim an Auburn firm owes them millions.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2010
Author: Education isantidote to violence
A crowd estimated at 600 people came to the Portland campus of the University of Southern Maine on Monday night to hear Greg Mortenson’s message describing terrorists’ greatest fear.
Mortenson, a world-renowned author and humanitarian, has spent the last 17 years helping to create more than 140 schools and 60 temporary schools for refugees in rural and often volatile regions of Pakistan and Afghanistan.
His organization, the nonprofit Central Asia Institute, establishes schools that now provide educational opportunities for more than 64,000 children. About 52,000 of the students are girls.
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PublishedOctober 26, 2010
Feature Obituary: Velma Williams West Clark, 78, a fearless ‘good mom’
Her adventurous nature defied the physical limitations that growing old can bring. Velma Williams West Clark was jumping off White’s Bridge in Windham to go swimming, snow tubing at Portland’s Riverside Golf Course with her grandchildren, and roller-skating at Happy Wheels – all when she was in her mid-70s. Mrs. Clark died Monday at her […]
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PublishedOctober 22, 2010
Hospital-products firm eyes air station
Pending final approval, the health care company says it will occupy a $12 million manufacturing facility.
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PublishedOctober 22, 2010
Author, humanitarian to speak at USM
Greg Mortenson has written two best sellers and established schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2010
Portland to borrow for energy projects
The City Council agrees to seek up to $11 million for 45 buildings, saying now is a good time.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2010
Westbrook poised to approve strip clubs with limits
The City Council gives initial approval to an ordinance that allows partially nude dancing in industrial areas.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2010
‘Blessed’ woman survives ricochet to head
Yvonne Dorrity of Hiram is struck by an errant bullet from a young man’s target practice across the street.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2010
Feature obituary: Gerald Korn, 89, bomber pilot, author and editor
He worked as a news reporter, wrote books, piloted bombing missions over Europe during World War II, and served as an editor for a news wire service and prominent magazines. Gerald “Jerry” Korn died Saturday of natural causes at his home in Parsonsfield. He was 89. His children were not surprised by their father’s long […]
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PublishedOctober 15, 2010
Dogs from dogfighting ring put up for adoption
Shelter officials hope to find homes for all of the animals rescued from the Ohio dogfighting ring.
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