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By CAITLIN ANDREWS

A former student of the University of New Hampshire’s law school is suing the institution for more than $5 million, arguing that school officials denied him due process and prevented him from attending other schools.Joel Mateo of Boston, Mass., was a...

By James W. Spain II

There was a time in the early years when the Merrimack River offered our ancestors a good life. It provided fertile grounds along the flood plain for planting crops and provided food to the hungry.Along the banks our ancestors found American Elm...

By DAVID BROOKS

This year’s early snowfall has New Hampshire ski fans rubbing their hands with glee, but for a certain set of snow sports fans – the senior set, you might say – there’s something missing.“When it snowed, they’d make us all side-step up the hill to...

By JACOB DAWSON

With Fourth of July just around the corner, New Hampshire residents have every possible pyrotechnic option to choose from for entertainment, which has fire safety officials warning that it just means more ways to get hurt.This year it’s legal to buy...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Twenty-two charges were dismissed against a former Sununu Youth Services Center counselor who will avoid significant jail time for sexually assaulting a teenager sentenced to the juvenile detention facility.Kirstie Bean, 26, of Concord recently...

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 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 LOLA DUFFORT

A Concord man who once served as the queen of England’s personal piper was remembered by loved ones Wednesday for his mischievous sense of humor, distinguished military career and love of Scottish music.The service for Pipe Major Gordon Webster at St....

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 ALYSSA DANDREA

A mother began serving a 90-day jail sentence Tuesday for exposing her two children to methamphetamine in Penacook in summer 2016, resulting in the death of her 2-month-old son.Kayla Austin, 21, of Penacook pleaded guilty to two counts of endangering...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

In the bright light of a new year, you might be tempted to make a resolution or two.There’s the classics, like writing more or calling your mother more often, and getting back to the gym. You’ll soon have a new place in Concord to try out that last...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A Concord dentist charged with assaulting a woman in the parking lot of a company-sponsored event in 2015 has settled with prosecutors.Mostafa El-Sherif, 60, of Bedford has completed three hours of one-on-one sexual harassment training and 40 hours of...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the mysteries of the Ralph Pill Marketplace is its very prominent name, since the Massachusetts-based suppliers of electrical components didn’t build the tower and hasn’t existed since it sold out to another firm a decade ago.“When we converted...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Anyone can see Harold Harasko loves his lady.You can hear it in the way he talks about her sturdy strength, her quiet dignity, her cheerful whistle. You can see it in the way he handles her – making sure she has enough room to turn around, or how...

By NICK REID

Seven people were arrested and charged with drug crimes Thursday at a suspected Concord drug den where a person recently died of an overdose.Concord police and a special operations unit searched the 52 Concord St. apartment in the early morning hours...

By ALYSSA DANDREAand NICK REID

A homeless man had some shots of whiskey at a bar Wednesday night, found a 9mm pistol and recklessly fired it 30 times in downtown Concord, a prosecutor said.No one was struck, but “there were certainly people in the area” when Timothy Dearborn, 33,...

By RAY DUCKLER

We walked through two glass doors, unlocked by a gentle, soft-spoken man with a trimmed white beard. Leave your coffee behind, Wes Balla, the director of exhibitions at the New Hampshire Historical Society, told me. No use taking chances. No use...

By ELLA NILSEN

Filmmaker Todd Wider was first inspired to make a documentary about mental illness when he experienced it firsthand in his hometown of New York City.Wider came home one night to find that a homeless man had broken in because he was cold and trying to...

By ELLA NILSEN

When Jocarl Bureau became upset, his eyes got huge and he started yelling, according to his ex-girlfriend.“When he gets mad about something, he doesn’t think,” Loreal Williams told police in an interview last April.The things that set him off were...