The injury is considered minor and everyone who lived in the single-family home on School Street got out safely.
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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Old Orchard Beach bartender successfully defends title on ‘Jeopardy!’
Dennis Coffey, 54, who works at Duffy’s Bar & Grill in Old Orchard Beach, has won over $38,000 in two appearances on the quiz show, and he’s back on Tuesday night.
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Westbrook mayor excited at formation of second ice disk
A new one is taking shape on the Presumpscot River, almost exactly a year to the date after the first one formed.
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Fast-moving storm drops half a foot of snow over most of Maine
It barreled into the state Saturday night before slipping out during the early morning hours on Sunday.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Regulators may investigate whether CMP issued improper disconnection notices
State law prohibits electric utilities from disconnecting customers’ power during winter months without the Maine Public Utilities Commission’s approval.
Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
Group fighting to retain vaccination law tops $58,000 in donations
The group opposes Question 1, which would overturn Maine’s new law eliminating certain exemptions to childhood vaccination requirements.
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Apartment building fire in Portland displaces 17 people
Members of three families living at 49 Hanover St. all got out safely Tuesday night.
Posted inMaine, Maine Crime, News
Police charge Standish couple with operating meth lab
Authorities say Jeffrey Makela and Nicole Makela were manufacturing the drug on the property where they lived with their 4 children – a 3-week-old baby, a 15-month-old boy and girls 10 and 12.
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Portland Planning Board approves 4-story hotel on Congress Street
The 47-room Longfellow hotel will be built on the site of a convenience store and gas station in the West End.
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Maine State Police: New Hampshire man passed out with baby in car
Christopher Dube is arrested in Lebanon and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and possession of a heroin/fentanyl.