The 20-foot Bowrider lost engine power and started taking on water, the Coast Guard says.
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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Maine State Prison inmate dies in hospital
Darrell Crosby, 59, was serving a sentence for unlawful sexual contact, according to Corrections Commissioner Joseph Fitzpatrick.
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New Hampshire man gets prison time for making false tax claim
Robert E. DeAngelis, 38, formerly of North Berwick, is sentenced by a federal judge in Portland to serve one year and one day.
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Sterling Kozlowski, one of Maine’s top bank executives, dies at 58
The Maine Market president for Key Bank was known for his devotion to community service and economic development.
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Police say Portland High student brought pellet gun to school after making threat
A 15-year-old boy was charged Thursday with misdemeanor terrorizing after police learned of a generic threat to bring a gun to school and found a realistic-looking pellet handgun in his backpack.
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Limington man killed in motorcycle crash in Baldwin
The accident happened late Monday morning on Route 113, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says.
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Berwick police identify 4 people killed in crash
A Buxton man, a Wells woman and two North Berwick residents died in the head-on collision Saturday, police say.
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Canadian motorcyclist killed in Casco accident
Gaetan Charest, 66, of Quebec was riding with a group of other motorcyclists when he went off the road on a curve, the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office says.
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Armed man robs store in Penobscot County
The incident occurred Sunday afternoon at the County Road Store in Milford, the sheriff’s office says.
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Suspect spills fentanyl inside cruiser at Cumberland County Jail
He and a sheriff’s deputy had to be medically evaluated after the incident, a jail official says.