Decrease in airport numbers bucks national trend as TSA officer caught more firearms in agency’s 19-year history than ever before at checkpoints.
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Massachusetts woman who pressured boyfriend to kill himself will remain in prison
The U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from a woman who’s serving a 15-month sentence for her role in the 2014 death of her boyfriend.
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Supreme court lets stand convictions of women who went topless at New Hampshire beach
A state court had earlier decided that Laconia’s public nudity ordinance does not discriminate on the basis of gender or violate the women’s right to free speech.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Nation & World, New England
Ex-drug company executives face reckoning in opioid bribery case
The case against Insys Therapeutics is considered the first seeking to hold an opioid maker criminally liable for the ongoing drug crisis.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Pamela Smart, who recruited teen lover to kill her husband, to seek parole again
New Hampshire authorities rejected her request last year for parole consideration or sentence reduction.
Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, New England
Les Otten steps up so Dixville Notch can retain claim to electoral fame
The tiny New Hampshire community, which traditionally is among the first to cast ballots for president in primaries and the general election, needed a fifth resident.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State, New England
Avangrid betting big on renewable energy
In addition to its controversial transmission line project in Maine, the firm is pushing two big wind farms off the coast of Nantucket Island to furnish green power to New England.
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Tests begin on bones that may be Revolutionary War soldiers’
A university laboratory is beginning tests on skeletal remains found beneath an 18th century home to help identify the three people believed to be soldiers killed during the Revolutionary War.
Posted inNation & World, New England
Mainer among 4 activists arrested trying to block coal-carrying train
The group Climate Disobedience Center has held several protests recently trying to stop coal shipments to the power plant in Bow, New Hampshire.
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New Hampshire hiker rescued after night in whiteout, freezing conditions
The man had turned back after trying to make it to the summit of Mount Lafayette when he fell down a steep, rocky section of Mount Lincoln.