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Trial opens for Pembroke’s Dale Collinge, who’s accused of murdering girlfriend

Monday, May 20, 2013

Just hours after Karen Boelzner was shot dead, her boyfriend admitted to pulling the trigger and told detectives what prosecutors are now trying to prove in the Pembroke man’s trial this week. “I am a murderer,” Dale Collinge told detectives, according to a prosecutor who projected that sentence on the courtroom wall at the start of Collinge’s trial this morning. … 0

Monitor Minute: May 20, 2013

Monday, May 20, 2013

Monitor Minute Episode 21: May 20, 2013. The Monitor Minute is a daily run down of today’s top stories along with a preview of tomorrow’s … 1

N.H. News Roundup: Rand Paul comes to Concord; Study: We curse like sailors

Monday, May 20, 2013

The 2016 political season is still heating up as Sen. Rand Paul, a Kentucky Republican, has sold out a dinner tonight in Concord. Paul is … 0

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A salmon waits in a bucket waiting to be measured and weighed. Winni Derby instates lie detectors for winners. Dakota Wright, 17, of Laconia, a Bishop Brady student, skipped prom to fish the derby with his father Mark and won in the overall salmon category. He will have to take a lie detector test at some point to verify that he caught it in Lake Winnipesaukee. (ANDREA MORALES / Monitor staff) Fishermen subject to scrutiny at annual Winni Derby
Geoff Campbell of Grace Limo details one of the stretch limousines that will be dispatched out for prom season this year. (ANDREA MORALES / Monitor staff) The Job Interview: Limo service prepares for the busy season
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Lizarda Urena has prayed on the steps of Concord High School nearly everyday since February. A mom of two students at Concord High School, she arrives at the school around 7-7:15 a.m. each morning to pray for the school's protection. (JOHN TULLY / Monitor staff)

Concord High mom prays outside school for peace each day

Saturday, May 18, 2013

In an all-white outfit with a cross necklace bearing the word “Jesus,” Lizarda Urena stands atop the steps outside Concord High School for 15 minutes every morning, arms outstretched and reciting verses from the Bible, which she holds … 1

Lawyer: Mom charged with abusing son cleared by DCYF

Saturday, May 18, 2013

The state Division of Children, Youth and Families has reversed its finding that Deborah Furst sexually assaulted her son after noting substantial inconsistencies in the child’s statements, according to a court filing by her lawyer. But the criminal case against the Epsom woman, which hinges on the word … 0

President Barack Obama leans out from under an umbrella to check if it's still raining, during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Thursday, May 16, 2013, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama puts Marines on umbrella duty, irking conservatives

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Slogging through a drizzly Rose Garden news conference Thursday with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, President Obama took a break to ask for some rain protection. “I am going to go ahead and ask folks, why don’t … 9

House panel probes IRS targeting of conservative groups

Saturday, May 18, 2013

The firestorm buffeting the Internal Revenue Service intensified yesterday as lawmakers began what they promised would be an extensive effort to learn whether there was any political motivation or White House involvement in the agency’s recently acknowledged misdeeds. Fueling those concerns, Russell George, the Treasury Department’s top tax … 26

Indiana halts support of fertilizer plant on U.S. bomb concerns

Friday, May 17, 2013

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence yesterday pulled his support of a plan by a Pakistani company to build a fertilizer plant after the Pentagon raised concerns that its products were being used to make bombs. Pence said yesterday he withdrew state incentives for the project near the Illinois border … 0

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers, right, stands next to a poster that shows a Rembrandt painting and a reward while facing reporters during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Boston, Monday, March 18, 2013. The FBI believes it knows the identities of the thieves who stole art valued at up to $500 million from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum more than two decades ago. DesLauriers says the thieves belong to a criminal organization based in New England and the mid-Atlantic states. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Purloined Picassos chased by FBI art sleuths

Friday, May 17, 2013

Stored inside a laptop at FBI headquarters are photos of thousands of paintings, sculptures and artifacts, works by Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Paul Cezanne – international treasures worth millions of dollars each. All … 0

FILE - In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013, file photo, people are reflected on the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo. Japan's benchmark Nikkei 225 index has returned more than 40 percent so far in 2013, to roughly 14,000. No other major stock index is even close. The U.S. Standard & Poor's 500 stock index, for instance, has delivered a terrific first four months. It's up 14 percent. (AP Photo/Itsuo Inouye)

Falling yen to make Japan’s goods more affordable

Friday, May 17, 2013

Attention, bargain-hunters around the world: Japanese goods – from cars to televisions – are going on sale. Credit Japan’s drive to pump cash into its economy to stimulate growth. The extra money flooding its financial system is helping … 0

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, May 17, 2013, to discuss sexual assaults in the military and the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti to command U.S. troops in South Korea, among other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Hagel orders review of sex-abuse prevention

Friday, May 17, 2013

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel yesterday ordered the military to recertify all 25,000 people involved in programs designed to prevent and respond to sexual assault, an acknowledgement that assaults have escalated beyond the Pentagon’s control. He said this step, … 0

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, left, accompanied by Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey, gestures as he speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon, Friday, May 17, 2013, to discuss sexual assaults in the military and the promotion of Lt. Gen. Curtis "Mike" Scaparrotti to command U.S. troops in South Korea, among other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

U.S. slams Russian anti-ship missiles going to Syria

Friday, May 17, 2013

The Obama administration denounced Russia yesterday for providing Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime  with anti-ship missiles, saying the weapons would only worsen a war that Washington  and Moscow have been  promising to work together on stopping. Gen. Martin … 0

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford leaves his home on Friday, May 17, 2013, after published reports said a video appears to show Ford smoking crack cocaine. A report published Thursday night said the video is being shopped around by a group of men allegedly involved in the drug trade. The Toronto Star said, however, it had no way to verify the video. Ford called the allegations ridiculous. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Chris Young)

Canada abuzz over purported crack video of mayor

Friday, May 17, 2013

A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford yesterday called the allegations “ridiculous.” The video has not been released publicly, and there is no way to verify whether it … 0

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