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By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Police dogs used to sniff out drugs at a border patrol checkpoint on Interstate 93 last summer amounted to a violation of the state Constitution, a judge ruled, throwing out evidence against 18 defendants.The American Civil Liberties Union of New...

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

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 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 LOLA DUFFORT

A Hooksett district court judge dismissed one of four charges in the DWI case against state Rep. James Spillane on Tuesday and could issue a ruling on the remaining counts as soon as Wednesday.Spillane was arrested a little after 11 p.m. May 4, on...

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 CAITLIN ANDREWS

One of the state’s largest concert venues has been purchased by Live Nation, the entertainment giant that owns Ticketmaster. The global company announced Wednesday it had acquired an interest in the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion, formerly known as...

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 LEAH WILLINGHAM

Jeffrey White knew something wasn’t right with his son Alec.It hit him in the face when the 16-year-old tried to overdose last spring. He knew his son needed help and he tried his best to get it for him.Just last month, White, 46, went to a suicide...

By LOLA DUFFORT

Thanks to the Merrimack and the Suncook rivers, Pembroke is blessed with multiple floodplains. But not, as it turns out, quite as many as early European settlers had hoped. Settled by the English in the 1730s, the town was first laid out on a grid,...

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...

In 2015, one of the Monitor’s best-read stories were of an emu found on the lam in the Bow woods.After about a week from the intial sighting, the bird, Beatrice, was captured by Kevin Welch, Sam Seagroves and Joe Miller and brought to Wings of Dawn...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

To catch a piglet, you gotta go for its hind legs.That’s what Carole Soule, standing amid a litter of pigs, thermometer in hand, will tell you. On an overcast afternoon at Miles Smith Farm in Loudon, she’d been tasked with catching one of her sick...

By LOLA DUFFORT

A Sullivan County Superior Court judge is expected to decide Friday whether to grant a Sunapee family a restraining order against the town’s police chief.During a roughly three-hour hearing Thursday in Newport, Heather and Joseph Furlong accused...

By ELIZABETH FRANTZ

Barely a year old, Tiny Living Spaces, a new home construction business in Henniker, is still getting off the ground, but there’s no shortage of interest in the niche market it aims to serve.“Oh, cool. You’re building tiny houses,” Michael Charron...

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...