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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PublishedAugust 1, 2019
Driver injured when vehicle strikes parked car, rolls over in South Portland
The accident took place in front of DiPietro’s Market around 7:30 p.m. Thursday.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2019
Shark spotted off Goose Rocks Beach probably a great white
A Kennebunkport harbormaster reports seeing the predator about a mile offshore.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2019
July in Portland sets record: Hottest. Month. Ever.
The temperature in Portland reached 80 degrees or higher during 24 days this July, leading to an average temperature of 72.9 degrees that eclipsed the previous record of 72.7 set in July 2011.
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PublishedJuly 31, 2019
Woolwich man dies 2 weeks after getting injured in motor vehicle accident
The man, 58-year-old Barry Wyman, was injured when his car and 2 others collided with a Penske rental truck on Route 1 in Woolwich.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2019
U.S. Border Patrol agent injured in ATV crash near Canadian border
The agent was airlifted to a hospital in Bangor after the accident, which took place Monday in the remote township of Gorham Gore.
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PublishedJuly 30, 2019
Maine drug trafficking suspect escapes capture by swimming Aroostook River
Alan Raymond Jr. also got help from his father, police say, and both are being sought by authorities.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2019
Five years after Maine man was killed in Pennsylvania, suspect goes to trial
John Wayne Strawser Jr. of West Virginia is accused of running Timothy ‘Asti’ Davison of Poland off an interstate and killing him.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2019
Gov. Mills set to kick off state bicentennial Tuesday
The governor will travel to four communities on the 200th anniversary of the day Mainers voted to separate from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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PublishedJuly 28, 2019
Fryeburg police rescue unconscious woman from Saco River bank
Police say the 45-year-old New Hampshire kayaker – who was wearing only an bikini and carrying a cooler filled with alcohol – was ‘unequipped for overnight camping.’
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PublishedJuly 28, 2019
Man dies in Wells motor vehicle crash
Police say the driver, 30-year-old Justin Bryant of Biddeford and Wells, was alone when his car left Route 9B and hit a tree Sunday.
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