As some push for a national park in Maine’s Katahdin region, the bill would require that any such designation be approved first by the affected state’s governor and legislature.
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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Fugitive from Sanford arrested in Cambridge, Mass.
Christopher Gonyer, 40, was taken into custody at a job site where he was installing flooring, police say.
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Bangor police identify man killed in shooting at apartment building
Robert Kennedy, 38, of Bangor was fatally shot early Friday in an incident that left a second person wounded.
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Passamaquoddy tribal members join effort to find body of missing canoeist
Majik Francis, 23, who lived on the Pleasant Point reservation, was last seen Sunday clinging to a capsized canoe in Half Moon Cove.
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Coast Guard searches for missing canoeist near Eastport
A distress call was received just after noon Sunday saying that a canoe had capsized.
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Republican from Brunswick plans to challenge Pingree in 2016
Mark Irving Holbrook, who says he wants to bring “some sanity to Washington, D.C.,” files papers to run against the four-term representative of Maine’s 1st Congressional District.
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Portland after-school writing program honored by Michelle Obama as one of nation’s best
Deering High School senior Ibrahim Shkara accepts the arts and humanities award from the first lady at a White House ceremony.
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NTSB ends search for El Faro’s voyage data recorder
The hunt for the device that could help explain the ship’s sinking is called off after a final five-day effort with a remotely operated vehicle.
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Bates College student recounts attack outside Paris soccer stadium
‘All of a sudden, they have taken our freedom from us,’ Emilia Calderon says of the terrorists.
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Search crews find bridge of sunken El Faro, but data recorder still missing
The black box contains information that can help investigators ‘paint an electronic portrait’ of the cargo ship’s sinking in Hurricane Joaquin.