Dan Sedon, (left) and Alexander Stolte, of Chelsea, Vt., listen to the proceedings in his bail review hearing yesterday. Stolte is charged with second degree murder in the death of his girlfriend's 1-year-old daughter.
March 31, 2010
Janine McDaniel (left) speaks to the news media in Chelsea, Vt., about the death of her granddaughter, Kyleigh.
March 20, 2010
New Hampshire Shrine Coach Greg Husband talks to his team during a recent practice at Kimball Union Academy. New Hampshire will take on Vermont tomorrow.
July 31, 2009
Sitting outside a cafe in Claremont, Bob Stevens of Weathersfield, Vt., reads the final edition of the Claremont Eagle Times last week. “I was surprised to hear it all happened so quickly,” Stevens said. He said he felt worse for the people who lost their jobs.
July 19, 2009
New Hampshire's U.S. senators last week voted in favor of an amendment sought by gun-rights groups that would reverse federal policy dating to the Reagan administration and allow gun owners to carry loaded firearms into national parks and wildlife refuges.
The measure, attached to a bill cracking down on the credit…
May 19, 2009
Carmen Tarleton caps a bottle of eye drops she has used daily since regaining partial eyesight from a last-attempt surgery in Boston last month.
May 18, 2009
Vermont
Doctors said Carmen Tarleton was unlikely to live through the horrific burns she suffered in June 2007, but she survived, left the hospital and was home in Thetford, Vt., for the holidays.
In recent months, as doctors told her she may never regain vision lost in the attack, Tarleton had prepared to be blind for the…
May 18, 2009
Both anti-abortion and abortion rights activists have found something they don't like in a proposed affiliation between Catholic Medical Center and the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic.
The two entities - the 330-bed Manchester hospital and the clinic that employs 900 doctors in New Hampshire and Vermont - in February announced they were investigating joining forces and had signed a letter…
May 18, 2009
A Lyme psychiatrist charged with financial misconduct was able to exploit contracts between Dartmouth College and the VA hospital in White River Junction, Vt. after he positioned himself as the supervisor of the contracts at both institutions, federal prosecutors allege.
May 17, 2009
New Hampshire's timber industry has been devastated by the downturn in the economy, and many struggling producers are looking for new ways to eke out profits from cutting trees without sacrificing the health of the state's forests.
"It's the worst it's been in anyone's memory," said Ned Therrien, past-president of the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association, a trade group that…
May 11, 2009
There are days when Liam and his baby brother, Jude, won't take naps, their Lebanon home is an upside down jumble of toys and their mom, Kathryn Kelly, hasn't had the time to take a shower.
And then AJ Kemon walks through the door and life gets a little better.
Kemon, and hundreds of women like her, are part of a corps of assistant moms in a program called Good Beginnings of the…
May 11, 2009
Lebanon
Mascoma Corp. in Lebanon says it has moved ahead of the pack in creating a commercially viable way of making ethanol, announcing a "proof of concept" that cuts the company's cost of production to less than half of last year's.
Last week's announcement, which researchers called "a true breakthrough" toward achieving commercial ethanol production, keeps the company on track to build…
May 10, 2009
Lebanon
Katelyn Rousseau was supposed to get a ride home from the Lebanon Junior High School dance Friday, but it was one of the warmer nights of the spring, so Rousseau, 14, decided to join four friends and walk with them to their homes in downtown Lebanon.
About 9:30 p.m., as they approached a crosswalk, the friends had slightly separated. One had walked ahead and crossed the street,…
May 7, 2009
Newport
Aaron Aldridge once seemed to enjoy showing off how comfortable he felt inside the courthouses he covered as a local newspaper reporter. A former police officer and bail commissioner, Aldridge eagerly chatted up the cops and sheriff's deputies and lawyers who milled around Sullivan County's courts, chewing over the day's events.
He usually wore a suit and tie, and he sometimes bragged…
May 5, 2009
