About 90 minutes after a resident heard the shots, she found one of her car windows broken.
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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World leader in fight against human trafficking brings campaign to Maine
Ruchira Gupta, an award-winning journalist from India, tells several hundred people at USM in Portland that ‘prostitution is actually an absence of choice.’
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Man with gun apparently changes his mind about robbing Portland store
Police say the man pointed a handgun at the clerk at the Gulf Express Mart but fled without taking any money. He still could be charged with robbery.
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‘Pounding wind’ leaves thousands of CMP customers without power
Androscoggin County gets hit hardest, with nearly 6,000 customers in the dark at one point.
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Maine regulators slash cap on spending for energy efficiency programs
The PUC cuts Efficiency Maine’s funding from $60 million to $22 million, a decision that many think will raise electricity bills by shrinking weatherization and heating-system programs.
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Police investigating crash in Warren that seriously injured Alfred woman
The pickup truck that Lauren Morrissette was riding in collided with a tractor-trailer on Route 1, says the Knox County Sheriff’s Office.
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Edgecomb woman charged with giving pot-laced brownies to 13-year-old daughter
Jennifer Becker is arrested after a complaint to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services hotline.
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Spring is near, right? Snowstorm sends Maine a mixed message
While Sunday’s snowfall amounts around Portland were minuscule, northern Maine and areas Down East got over a foot.
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Auburn police seek public’s help locating missing girl
Lily Swearingen, 15, was last seen almost two weeks ago and is believed to have run away.
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Maine drug agents say Brunswick man was making meth in his car
The Maine Drug Enforcement Agency says it discovered the rolling methamphetamine lab Wednesday night and began dismantling it.