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By DAVID BROOKS

We’re all familiar with crime-scene forensics, or at least the TV version that is the central plot point for every single cop show, but I must admit the concept of cellphone forensics is new to me.Fortunately for a hiker who was lost for two days in...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

Chris Audet was drawn to thewater.Whether he was fishingfor hornpout or bringing his kids to Horace Lake or Tucker Pond to swim – the water was the place to which the Loudon native always returned.“I think he just felt free being in the water,” said...

By DAVID BROOKS

In 1979, or maybe it was 1978, Ralph Jimenez and Linda Graham got tired of lighting their off-the-grid home via candles, Coleman lanterns and kerosene lights, and they decided to take a high-tech plunge.Thirty-nine years later (or maybe 40, but...

By David Brooks

Fans of free-range chicken farming take note: If your chicken freely ranges onto somebody else’s property, you could be in trouble.On Tuesday, Gov. Chris Sununu signed into law a bill that adds “domestic fowl” to a long-standing state law that makes...

By DAVID BROOKS

The dilapidated Thoreau Falls Bridge which provides a rare river crossing in the Pemigewasset Wilderness will be removed but not replaced in order to maintain the wilderness experience, federal authorities have decided – a decision that will anger...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

In one week, the Concord Catholic community will witness the former St. Peter’s Church’s last rites.They’ll gather on May 27 for a final liturgy, their voices echoing among the church’s vaulted ceilings, where countless marriages, baptisms and...

By RAY DUCKLER

Rest in pieces, Old Man.That’s what I was told Thursday, which marked the 15th anniversary of the day the Old Man of the Mountain crumbled during an early-morning fog.Not out of disrespect. Quite the contrary, this opinion grew out of love and respect...

By DAVID BROOKSand JONATHAN VAN FLEET

It turns out Concord has something to brag about on Arbor Day when it comes to trees: Within the city limits, at least six trees qualify as the biggest of their species in all of New Hampshire. That includes the huge Norway maple next to the arch in...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Fresh off Laconia’s annual Motorcycle Week, Richard Tripaldi II and James Brock returned to the remote campsite bordering the Great Gains Memorial Forest in Franklin.The two young men, in a fledgling relationship, had spent some nights there...

By RAY DUCKLER

To this day, Tom Ryan can’t explain it, and don’t expect him to try during his appearance Thursday night at Red River Theatres.There, starting at 7, he’ll talk about Following Atticus, the latest selection for Concord Reads – a citywide literary...

By RAY DUCKLER

The rope is behind glass, in a rectangular wooden box, and it leaves no room for interpretation.It signals death, end of story.A rope will do that – invade your mind with darkness – when tied into a noose. This one is on a back wall at the...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Rekha Luther recalled vividly in court Monday the first time she shot up heroin, aiming to suppress chronic pain from an underlying health condition that had led her to abuse prescription drugs.After the first time, she was hooked and the choice to...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

The day Dunbarton teen Trevor Gonyer died, Stephanie Burke called his phone dozens of times.Burke, a Goffstown High School student at the time, knew her friend was dead. Her baby sister had told her, “bawling her eyes out,” the morning of July 3,...

By RAY DUCKLER

Penny Pitou, famous for winning two Olympic silver medals and booking European ski tours, says it’s okay to call her attractive.In fact, she likes it, as long as you include the part about skiing, too.Both defined her in 1960, when the woman behind...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Eighty-eight local, state and federal law enforcement agencies executed one of the largest ever drug sweeps Thursday in the Granite State that resulted in 151 arrests, the seizure of more than 551 grams of heroin and fentanyl, $37,251 in cash and 24...

By DAVID BROOKS

A bill being considered in the state Legislature would allow homes on private wells to continue watering their lawns during a drought, even when homes connected to municipal systems have to stop.“Private wells are private property and this has always...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A bill proposing to expand the sex offender registry to include those convicted of disseminating private sexual images without the subject’s consent faced opposition at its first public hearing Thursday.House Bill 1426 would require a first-time...

By DAVID BROOKS

When Jamie Sayen describes Groveton as a “company town,” shaped and shaken from top to bottom by the rise and fall of its paper mills, he’s not kidding. In its heyday, Groveton Papers even crawled inside your nose.“I knew it was important to get home...

By DAVID BROOKS

Early November snowfall has gotten plenty of folks looking forward to zooming down New Hampshire mountains on skis. But a surprising number of them are willing – even eager – to hike uphill in order to do it.“This is the fastest-growing segment of the...

By RAY DUCKLER

In Kath Barbadoro’s world, a world of laughter, things haven’t seemed very funny lately.That’s because Louis C.K., the famous comedian who was exposed for exposing himself to women, held up a mirror to male society, forcing it to acknowledge the...