School board hires new Bow High School principal

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Brian O’Connell, currently the assistant principal at Timberlane Regional High School, will replace Dr. John House-Myers as the principal of Bow High School.The Bow School Board made the hire official during Thursday’s meeting.O’Connell is in his...

Why do most New Hampshire ski fatalities happen in March?

By DAVID BROOKS

Spring skiing has great appeal, but a decade’s worth of data from the state medical examiner shows a possible other side: It might be the deadliest time to head downhill.Since 2007, the state office has rendered an official cause of death for 18...

10 in Concord arrested on meth, heroin charges as police raid two homes

By NICK REID

Concord police joined with a regional special operations unit and the state police SWAT team to raid two separate apartments about 4 a.m. Thursday.Between those drug busts and other efforts over the past two days, 10 people were arrested on charges...

Concord police arrest nine in drug bust

A Wednesday raid on a Concord apartment building resulted in nine arrests of people now facing drug-related charges.Members of the Concord Police Department’s drug enforcement unit and patrol division descended upon 12 East Side Drive, Building 2, in...

Off the court, Joey Craigue has a purpose, too

By RAY DUCKLER

The local jock from a family of well-known jocks doesn’t fit the mold.At least not the kind we see in the movies and on TV. Not even close.Sure, Joey Craigue still loves sports, breathes sports, eats sports like Fred Flintstone chomping on a...

Man sentenced in deadly home invasion is paroled on 1 charge

A man sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison for his role in a home invasion that left a mother dead and her 11-year-old daughter maimed was granted parole Thursday on one of his convictions, but he still faces at least a decade more behind bars.Quinn...

Parenting from Prison: Sentenced for murder, father still a role model to children

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Growing up, Evenor and Natalia Pineda couldn’t hug their father and say “I love you” before bed. Instead, the young children clung to the sound of his voice, which he recorded from prison to CDs that accompanied books of their favorite stories. “We...

N.H. woman becomes first to accomplish White Mountains hiking feat in single year

By NICK REID

A New Hampshire woman has become the first known person to complete a vaunted White Mountains hiking challenge – which takes some hikers a lifetime – within a single year.Sue Johnston of Littleton hiked each of the state’s 4,000-foot mountains in...

Companies can fire employees for most reasons, including missing a shift due to birth of baby boy

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

New Year’s Eve was bittersweet for Lamar Austin.He celebrated the birth of his son – the first baby born in Concord this year – and he found out the hard way that workers in New Hampshire have little protection if employers want to fire them for...

Meth user shares his story of addiction, recovery in prison

By ELLA NILSEN

James Mott knew people who tweaked when they used methamphetamine, hearing voices and seeing things that weren’t there.But Mott, who started using methamphetamine as a way to wean himself off heroin, said the synthetic stimulant never made him act...

N.H. transgender journey documented on reality TV

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Kae Mason was asked a lot of questions last year when film crews started showing up outside her downtown hair salon.“Word got out fast,” Mason said. “Soon, all the local TV stations were calling wondering what was going on.”Mason, owner of Salon K on...

Hypothermia suspected in hiker who died in White Mountains over Christmas

By NICK REID

The weather turned wet in the White Mountains on Christmas Eve, likely sopping a Massachusetts hiker who had set out alone on a challenging trek into the Pemigewasset Wilderness.The 26-year-old had adequate experience and equipment to venture onto the...

There are 500,000 utility poles in New Hampshire, yet we hardly notice them

By DAVID BROOKS

Marc Geaumont doesn’t work for a telephone company, but when it comes to utility poles, he has a confession to make. “People in my family still call them telephone poles,” the director of field operations for Eversource Energy in New Hampshire...

Laconia officers make 17 arrests with help of Granite Hammer funds

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Early Tuesday morning, 17 Laconia police officers fanned out across several towns, including Concord, to arrest 12 individuals wanted for drug possession and distribution charges.The operation began at 6 a.m. with officers executing warrants on the...

More than a mansion: Bridges House has a long and storied history

By ELLA NILSEN 

When former Gov. John Lynch was first elected in 2004, he suggested to his wife Susan that their kids could have a sleepover in the Governor’s Mansion, also known as the Bridges House.She shot the idea down immediately. “Susan was adamantly against...

N.H. National Guard training facility opens in Pembroke

By LOLA DUFFORT

Alongside representatives from the state’s congressional delegation, the New Hampshire National Guard celebrated the opening of its newest training facility in Pembroke, a multi-million dollar project many years in the making.As snow fell outside,...

Mother of killed Nashua toddler gets 45 years to life in prison

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Called by prosecutors “a case like no other,” the trial of Katlyn Marin came to a close Friday when she received a 45 years to life prison sentence, with 790 days already served, for the death of her three-year old child, Brielle Gage.Marin was...

When it comes to the Pam Smart case, too much is not enough

By RAY DUCKLER

I rolled my eyes when told to follow up on a recent magazine series about Pam Smart.Nothing to see here, I figured. Old news, from a story no one wanted to talk about anymore.I was wrong.Colorful Concord defense attorney Mark Sisti, who defended Smart...

A Nashua teen dies in a bizarre manner. So, going forward, what does that mean for keeping drainage systems safe?

By RAY DUCKLER

The news, while of course tragic, was bizarre and mysterious, leading to questions that have yet to be answered.Jacob Goulet, a 16-year-old student at Nashua North High School, was dead, but many of the factors normally associated with a teen’s death...

Eureka! A new generation of gold miners heads for the hills in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine

By MICHAEL CASEY

Al Davis Jr. cracks a smile as he spots a speck of gold glittering in a plastic pan full of muck pulled from a Vermont brook, revealing a gold tooth made from some earlier finds.Davis, decked in waders and wearing a hat festooned with a tiny bottle...