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Denise Nedeau of Pembroke Academy recently won a regional award for Leadership Excellence in School Nutrition for the staff improving the salad bar. (JOHN TULLY / Monitor staff)

Healthy beginnings

Sunday, May 19, 2013

Not all salads are created equal. In fact, in the eyes of the national School Nutrition Association, Denise Nedeau, kitchen manager at Pembroke Academy, has created some of the very best salads of all. Nedeau was announced earlier this month as the regional winner of the association’s Leadership Excellence in School Nutrition for doubling student use of the school salad … 0

N.H. gets input on educating public about health law

Sunday, May 19, 2013

From Old Home Days to Home Depot, New Hampshire residents should find information about the federal health overhaul law everywhere they turn, and soon, advocates told state Insurance Department officials Friday. Commissioner Roger Sevigny and his staff hosted a forum Friday for consumers, business owners and health care providers to get advice on how the state should help residents learn about and navigate … 0

English language proposal has French up in arms

Saturday, May 18, 2013

There was a time, not so long ago, when anyone with a proper education spoke French. Diplomacy and business were conducted in French. Knowledge was spread in French. Travelers made their way in French and, of course, lovers traded sweet nothings in French. Viewed from France, the trouble with modern times is that many of those activities are now conducted in English, even … 0

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Ronald Briggs of Epsom places a flower in memory of his nephew, Michel Briggs, in a wreath during the New Hampshire Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony; Friday, May 17, 2013. The names of 44 officers who died in the line of duty were read ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff PHOTOS: Event honors officers killed in line of duty in N.H.
Amy McKean loads a box of T-shirts into a vehicle with Rock 'N Race team coordinator Donna Killion at St. Peter's Church in Concord; Tuesday, May 14, 2013. McKean's Rock 'N Race team, Amy's Advocates, raises more money for the Concord Hospital fundraiser than any other team. A survivor of Hodgkins Lymphoma, McKean organizes a team that now number 127 runners and walkers. Though it is the second-largest team, it has raised more money over the last few years than any other group. (ALEXANDER COHN / Monitor staff) Ray Duckler: Amy and her Advocates raise money for Concord cancer center like no other team
Joseph Foster is interviewed by WMUR before the ceremony where he is sworn in as state Attorney General on Wednesday, May 15, 2013 in the Executive Council Chambers at the State House. (ANDREA MORALES / Monitor staff) PHOTOS: Incoming Attorney General Joe Foster’s swearing-in ceremony
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Boston bombing judge becomes target over Miranda rights

Saturday, May 18, 2013

A Harvard Medical School research assistant who has served as a U.S. judge for 23 years now finds herself at the center of the Boston Marathon bombing case, and by extension the post-Sept. 11 issue of whether, and when, suspected terrorists deserve constitutional rights. Marianne Bowler, who also … 0

FBI searches apartment in ricin letter case

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Authorities in hazardous materials suits searched a downtown Spokane, Wash., apartment yesterday, investigating the recent discovery of a pair of letters containing the deadly poison ricin. Few details have been released in the case, and no arrests have been made. Federal investigators have been searching for the person … 0

ADVANCE FOR USE SUNDAY, MAY 19, 2013 AND THEREAFTER - A tattered American flag waves from a storefront beside the former ABC Cleaners in Jacksonville, N.C., on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Solvents illegally dumped by the former dry cleaners leaked into the water supply for the Camp Lejeune Marine base, contributing to one of the worst cases of drinking water contamination in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

After nearly 30 years, Camp Lejeune coming clean

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Purple wildflowers sprout in abundance around the bright-yellow pipe, one of several jutting from the sandy soil in this unassuming patch of grass and mud. A dirty hose runs from the pipe to an idling truck and into … 0

A crumbling tin plaque marks the grave of an infant buried during the 1950s in the "Babyland" section of Onslow Memorial Park in Jacksonville, N.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013. Mary Blakely, a Marine's daughter, has scoured this and other cemeteries for the names of children who may have died because of contaminated water at nearby Camp Lejeune. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

Marine daughter seeks dignity for ‘Devil Dog pups’

Saturday, May 18, 2013

As she flipped through the cemetery register, Mary Blakely’s eyes filled with tears. On line after line, the entry read simply “Baby Boy” or “Baby Girl,” followed by a surname and burial date. Like Blakely, many of those … 0

GOP hopes IRS inquiry will snag health care overhaul

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Political scandals have strange ways of causing collateral damage, and Republicans are hoping the furor over federal tax enforcers singling out conservative groups will ensnare their biggest target: President Obama’s health care law. But no one appears to have connected the factual dots yet, and it’s unclear whether … 8

Obama budget adds $1 trillion in taxes

Saturday, May 18, 2013

President Obama’s most recent budget request would reduce borrowing by $1.1 trillion over the next decade compared with current law – almost entirely through higher taxes on the rich, large estates and smokers, congressional budget analysts said yesterday. In addition to raising nearly $1 trillion in new taxes, … 2

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 … 20

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

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