Career Reporter Turns to Trucking

After 30 years as a reporter, 29 of them at the Portland Press Herald, Ted Cohen six months ago embraced a new profession: trucking.

''It's all about the open road, right?" Cohen queried a trucker colleague that night. ''The freedom of the open road?"
...Cohen, who is 53, was the reporter who during the 2000 presidential campaign learned of George W. Bush's arrest for drunken driving in Kennebunkport 24 years earlier. He told an editor at the newspaper of his find, he said, but the paper never published the story.

When the arrest was uncovered by a Portland television station and a barrage of news reports followed three months later, the Portland paper's decision to ignore the story became a story unto itself. Cohen said the Press Herald made him the scapegoat in the matter.