Both southbound lanes were closed after an SUV collided with a tractor-trailer hauling wood chips, state police say.
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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Coast Guard swimmer saves couple from waters off Southwest Harbor
Petty Officer Calvin Legge dived into the water after the elderly couple ran aground and then overturned the skiff they were rowing toward a Coast Guard boat.
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Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
Peaks Island woman sentenced to 3 years in heroin trafficking conspiracy
Ashley Gross had pleaded guilty to participating in a ring that took phone orders from customers in Maine to whom they would deliver the drugs.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Wildfire burns 4 acres of forestland in Topsham
The blaze was one of three wildfires reported Monday in Maine, the forest service says.
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George Mitchell’s son, 17, accidentally starts wildfire on Mount Desert Island
Mount Desert’s fire chief says the teen was playing with a lighter when he sparked a blaze that burned about an acre of woods and fields on the former U.S. senator’s property.
Posted inLifestyle, News
Maine fisherman catches a whale of a lobster
He poses for a photo holding up a lobster that is about 3 feet long that he estimates weighs 20 pounds.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
LePage holding 51 more bills as dispute over veto deadline goes on
Two senators – a Republican and a Democrat – seek the attorney general’s opinion ‘regarding the options the chief executive’s office has.’
Posted inNews, Schools and Education
Former Salt Institute students present plan to rescue school
The nonprofit’s directors, who announced last month that the school will close, plans to respond to Save Salt’s proposal by the end of July.
Posted inLocal & State
LePage signs bill to allow concealed weapons in Maine without permits
The bill’s sponsor says, ‘All this does is allow open carry gun owners to put a jacket on.’
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Man working on cellphone tower in Gorham seriously injured in fall
The Massachusetts resident was part of a crew removing cables and a section mount when he fell, police say.