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By PATRICK WHITTLE

Sea turtles strandings have increased dramatically. Congress might create a fund to bail them outEds: UPDATES: Updates Media.PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sea turtle strandings have ticked up at an alarming rate in New England, but now the reptiles are close...

By ZEKE MILLER, COLLEEN LONG, STEVE KARNOWSKI, WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with her decision, after a breakneck selection process that began barely two weeks ago when she suddenly...

By PATRICK WHITTLE and MICHAEL CASEY

Vermont is flooding. Not just this week, two weeks ago and a year before that, but experts say the state could see catastrophic events like these for the foreseeable future. Climate change is fueling stronger, more persistent storms and the state’s...

By HOLLY RAMER

A man charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy at New Hampshire’s youth detention center decades ago has died while awaiting trial, his lawyer said Wednesday.Gordon Thomas Searles, 68, died Sunday, said attorney Joseph Fricano. He said he did...

By LISA RATHKE, NICK PERRY, DAVID SHARP and KATHY McCORMACK

LYNDON, Vt. — Weeks after Jason Pilbin witnessed a driver get swept away by floodwaters, his northeastern Vermont community was ravaged again by flooding from heavy rains.Pilbin went outside with a flashlight and headlamp around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to...

A Vermont man accused of killing an 82-year-old neighbor in Enosburg pleaded not guilty to aggravated murder of the woman, who went missing earlier in the month.Darren Martell, 23, appeared in court on Friday after he was charged at the Northwest...

RYE, N.H. — Two fishermen are safe after a whale crashed onto their boat, capsizing it off the New Hampshire shore, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.The incident occurred Tuesday near Odiorne Point State Park in Rye. The two men, who were thrown...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH

Former President Donald Trump on Monday chose U.S. Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his running mate as he looks to return to the White House.Here are some things to know about Vance, a 39-year-old Republican now in his first term in the Senate:Vance rose...

By ERIC TUCKER

The federal judge presiding over the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump in Florida dismissed the prosecution on Monday, siding with defense lawyers who said the special counsel who filed the charges was illegally appointed...

By MICHAEL CASEY

The latest flooding in Vermont has added fresh urgency to concerns about the hundreds of dams in the state, a third of which are more than a century old.This week’s deluge from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl wasn’t as bad for the hundreds of dams...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH, JILL COLVIN, COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and MICHELLE L. PRICE

BUTLER, Pa. — On the heels of an apparent attempt to kill him, former President Donald Trump called Sunday for unity and resilience as shocked leaders across the political divide recoiled from the shooting that left him injured but “fine” and the...

By BRUCE SHIPKOWSKI

A group of gang members who trafficked drugs and guns and used dating websites to connect with people interested in hiring prostitutes were responsible for a series of robberies that led to four deaths, federal prosecutors said Friday.Dubbed the...

By LISA RATHKE

PLAINFIELD, Vt. — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl dumped heavy rain on Vermont, washing away much of an apartment building, knocking out bridges and cutting off towns, and retraumatizing a state still recovering from catastrophic floods that hit a...

By LISA RATHKE

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — A year after catastrophic flooding inundated parts of Vermont, Lisa Edson Neveu and her two teenage sons still live in their flood-wracked home, despite unrepaired damage that festers like an open wound: torn-out walls and...

By STEVE PEOPLES and HOLLY RAMER

HOOKSETT, N.H. — For years, Gavin Newsom stayed far away from New Hampshire by design.The ambitious California governor understood that any visit to a bastion of presidential politics would fuel speculation that he might be eyeing President Joe...

By MICHAEL CASEY

Jurors in the trial of Karen Read unanimously concluded she was not guilty of murder or of leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and were deadlocked on only the remaining manslaughter charge before the judge abruptly declared a mistrial, her defense...

By MICHAEL CASEY

A judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deadlocked in the case of Karen Read, a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend by striking him with her SUV and leaving him in a snowstorm, a case that drew outsize attention thanks...

By NICK PERRY

DEDHAM, Mass. — Jurors in the Karen Read trial told the judge on Friday that they’ve been unable to reach a unanimous verdict, but the judge sent them back for more deliberations.“I am writing to inform you on behalf of the jury that despite our...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. — The New Hampshire Department of Education has restored a teacher’s credentials days after she sued, alleging officials had mispresented her involvement in a student’s abortion.The teacher, identified only as Jane Doe in her lawsuit...

By CALVIN WOODWARD

WASHINGTON — “Oh, Joe.”That gasp, from patrons at a Chicago bar when President Joe Biden first stumbled verbally in his debate with Donald Trump, spoke for a lot of Americans on Thursday night.In watch parties, bars, a bowling alley and other venues...