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WINSTED, Conn. — Trapped inside a car, the adult black bear and cub thrashed about. The horn was blaring and the radio blasting. Outside the car, a second cub ran around in apparent distress by the Connecticut home.State environmental conservation...

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A Dover man on trial for threatening the lives of presidential candidates last year has been found dead while a jury was deciding his verdict, according to court filings.The jury began weighing the case against Tyler Anderson, 30, on Tuesday after a...

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CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire officials issued two warnings of potentially dangerous algae blooms along parts of Lake Winnipesaukee, the state’s largest lake. The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services said on Thursday it detected high...

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BOSTON — Two JetBlue planes made contact Thursday morning at Boston Logan International Airport, with one wingtip touching another plane’s tail. No one was hurt and both flights were canceled, Jennifer Mehigan of the Massachusetts Port Authority said...

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — A woman fell into a dumpster while throwing out her garbage and was later rescued from a trash truck that had compacted the contents while she was inside, fire department officials in New Hampshire said. Luckily, neighbors heard her...

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A Massachusetts motorist who led police on a chase in two states was fatally shot after crashing in Maine and emerging from the pickup truck with a knife, police said Wednesday.Kenneth Ellis, 52, left his disabled pickup truck with a knife on Main...

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Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island will procure future wind energy projects together rather than separately as part of a joint agreement the states’ governors announced Wednesday — the first such multi-state agreement in the nation.The...

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SHELBURNE, N.H. — The Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests has completed a long-term effort to protect two adjacent forests in the northern part of the state totaling 3,700 acres.The forests will be managed for multiple objectives,...

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SCRANTON, Pa. — A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from the theft and sale of human body parts taken from Harvard Medical School and an Arkansas mortuary.Jeremy Pauley, 41, of Thompson, pleaded guilty Thursday to...

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A former New Hampshire college volunteer basketball coach was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison on charges of producing and possessing child sexual abuse material. Joshua Pincoske appeared in federal court in Concord. He called his actions...

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A New Hampshire sheriff has been arrested and charged with eight felonies as part an investigation into his misuse of county credit cards, the state attorney general announced Thursday. Strafford County Sheriff Mark Brave, who campaigned in 2020 to be...

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A former military police officer who was convicted of multiple murders and sentenced to more than 200 years in prison for his part in a 2015 Brazilian massacre has been arrested in New Hampshire, immigration officials said.Antonio Jose De Abreu Vidal...

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SOMERSWORTH — A man pleaded not guilty Monday to second-degree murder in the beating death of a 79-year-old man in the parking lot of a Walmart in southeastern New Hampshire.Brian Roberge, 52, of Somersworth, was being held without bail following his...

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MANCHESTER — The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeding agricultural producers and food businesses with millions of dollars in investment funds to improve markets, create and strengthen jobs, control food prices and improve nutrition, Secretary Tom...

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Smoke from Canadian wildfires continued to turn New Hampshire skies hazy as it poured into the East Coast and Midwest on Wednesday, sending school recesses indoors, canceling flights out of New York’sLaGuardia Airport, and prompting people to fish out...

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MANCHESTER, N.H. — Six New Hampshire police officers who fatally shot an armed man were justified in their use of deadly force and will not face criminal charges, the state attorney general said Friday. The man was struck at least 11 times. The...

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The New Hampshire Senate rejected a marijuana legalization bill Thursday, leaving it the only state in New England that makes smoking pot recreationally a crime.Republicans, who control the Senate in the Live Free or Die state, dismissed the bill on a...

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GORHAM, N.H. — A skier who was buried in snow for about 6 1/2 minutes after getting caught in an avalanche in New Hampshire’s White Mountains this week was dug out by a companion and survived uninjured, authorities said.Three skiers originally...

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PORTSMOUTH — Love is blooming in Portsmouth as the community counters a hateful graffiti spree with kindness and connection.The attorney general’s office and local police are investigating after 15 downtown sites were marked Tuesday with swastikas and...

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MILFORD — A New Hampshire school board has reversed a policy banning middle and high school students from using urinals after dozens protested the measure, which had been a compromise to a proposal that would have blocked students from using...

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CONCORD, N.H. — The number of hate crime complaints being reported New Hampshire has grown in the nearly six years since the state set up a dedicated civil rights unit in the attorney general’s office. The office received 187 hate crime complaints...