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Man linked to Boston suspects killed by law enforcement

Thursday, May 23, 2013

A Chechen man linked to one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was shot and killed early yesterday in an unusual encounter with the FBI and other law enforcement officers inside his apartment in Orlando, Fla. According to federal law enforcement officials, the man was being interviewed about whether he and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the bombing suspects, were connected to a two-year-old triple slaying when he attacked an FBI … 0

Cameron says ‘strong indications’ London murder was terrorism

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Two assailants hacked a man to death on a busy southeast London street yesterday before delivering a rant about Islam to bystanders, leading Prime Minister David Cameron to cut short a diplomatic trip in Paris to deal with what he described as a likely terrorist attack. If confirmed as an act of terrorism, it would mark the first fatality from such an attack … 0

Dale Collinge is arraigned at Hooksett District Court on charges of second degree murder after being arrested in Pembroke; Monday, November 13, 2011.

(Alexander Cohn/ Monitor Staff)

In Collinge’s murder trial, defense focuses on victim’s mental state

Thursday, May 23, 2013

Dale Collinge told his landlord that after he pulled the rifle’s trigger and a bullet he never knew was inside shattered his girlfriend’s skull, his eyes shifted to the living room couch, where he saw an open box of ammunition. “And the only thing he thought was, ‘Oh my God, she must have … 0

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A place setting announces Kentucky senator Rand Paul and GOP Chairman Reince Priebus as speakers for a fund-raising dinner for the New Hampshire Republican Party at the Grappone Center in Concord; Monday, May 20, 2013.

ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff

In Concord, Rand Paul raises cash for N.H. GOP and stokes 2016 speculation

Concord family scours the state in search of covered bridges

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

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FILE - A Tuesday, May 21, 2013 file photo, an aerial view shows Plaza Towers Elementary School, which was destroyed in Monday's tornado, in Moore, Okla. Unlike several others schools in the Oklahoma City area, Plaza Towers had no safe room in which students and teachers could huddle. The deaths of seven students at Plaza Towers highlights the patchwork of protection that exists at schools in tornado-prone parts of the central U.S. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

School storm protection is spotty in tornado zones

Thursday, May 23, 2013

With its single-story design and cinder-block walls, Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., may have seemed sturdy when it was built a couple of generations ago. But a powerful tornado revealed the building’s lack of modern safety … 0

Hillsboro police warn about rabid cat

Thursday, May 23, 2013

The police in Hillsboro said a cat that attacked three people has tested positive for rabies. WMUR reported the cat has been killed. The cat was described as a medium-hair, black-and-white street cat and the police advised people who may have come into contact with it to see … 0

Power of Moore tornado dwarfs Hiroshima bomb

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. … 0

Would Oklahoma’s conservative lawmakers support tornado relief funding?

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Oklahoma has one of the most conservative congressional delegations of any state: seven Republican men, including fierce advocates for cutting federal spending. Five of those seven voted no in January on a bill to provide $50 billion in … 0

Dale Collinge of Pembroke sits at his motions hearing; Tuesday, Aril 16, 2013. Collinge has been charged with killing his girlfriend.

(SAMANTHA GORESH / Monitor staff)

Dale Collinge trial Day 2: Jurors listen to interview from night of shooting

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Dale Collinge remembered grabbing the gun from his girlfriend in one fluid motion, swinging his hand under the strap and pulling the weapon she had just pointed at him into his own arms. The Pembroke man demonstrated that … 0

Doctor Urmen Desai, left, talks to reporters as Dr. Wrood M. Kassira, center, and Dr. Renaud Saint-Vil, right, look on during a news conference in Miami, Tuesday, May 21, 2013. The doctors gave an an update on the progress of Ronald Poppo, a homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year in Miami. The attack left Poppo blind, but the doctors say he's been working with an occupational therapist to learn how to take care of himself. The doctors say Poppo also has learned to play guitar and practices daily. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz)

Face-chewing victim recovering, strumming guitar

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

A homeless man whose face was mostly chewed off in a bizarre attack last year appeared yesterday to be mostly at peace with his disfigurement, strumming a guitar, making jokes and thanking people for their donations to help … 0

Children survive Oklahoma tornado in elementary school bathroom

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

It was the usual drill, the one Alexander Ghassimi and other children who live in Moore, in a tornado-prone swath of Oklahoma, learn in school: Get to an interior hallway, get down, cover up. Then a teacher who had been watching the storm’s progress outside Plaza Towers Elementary … 0

Dale Collinge (left) stands with his attorney as Judge Richard McNamara walks through the yard where Collinge shot and killed his girlfriend, Karen Boelzner, in November 2011 on the first day of his trial for second-degree murder; Monday, May 20, 2013. Collinge admits that he shot Boelzner that night.

ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff

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