Jury Acquits Former Windsor Police Officer in 2014 Shooting

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — A jury on Wednesday night exonerated a former Windsor police detective on criminal charges related to a shooting during a 2014 sting operation in Windsor.The panel of nine women and three men deliberated for nearly six hours...

Police: Man Kills Elderly Mother at DHMC Before Being Apprehended

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — Police apprehended a Warwick, R.I., man on Tuesday afternoon and alleged he killed his 70-year-old mother inside one of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center’s intensive care units, an incident that forced the medical center to evacuate its...

Byrne Family Philanthropy Has Given $72 Million Since 2003; Can It Continue?

By John Lippman

Hanover — There was the overhead projector for Hartford High School’s Friday morning assemblies and the new roof for the Parish Players’ Eclipse Grange Theatre building in Thetford.There have been funds for restoration projects at the Enfield Shaker...

Former D-H Doctor Who Diverted Pain Drugs Has License Reinstated

By Nora Doyle-Burr

Lebanon — A former Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center anesthesiologist accused of stealing powerful pain drugs and falsifying medical records may resume practicing medicine, as long as he abides by certain conditions, according to a state licensing...

New Hampshire Man Pleads Not Guilty to Voyeurism in Wilder

By Jordan Cuddemi

White River Junction — A 30-year-old New Hampshire man pleaded not guilty on Monday to nearly a dozen counts of voyeurism and a felony charge of lewd and lascivious conduct in connection with several alleged incidents at a Wilder home in April and...

N.H. Town Recalls Deadly Shooting

By Kathy Mccormack

Twenty years ago, an angry loner with a gun murdered four people, two of them state troopers, in the New Hampshire town of Colebrook, wounded four other officers and was killed in a shootout with police in Vermont.Today, people still hesitate to...

Haverhill Hires New Police Chief

Staff Report

Haverhill — Town officials have selected a 12-year veteran of the Haverhill Police Department to lead its force as chief starting Sept. 1.Brandon Alling, 33, will replace Byron Charles, who retired late last month.Town Manager Jo Lacaillade said the...

Two Plead Guilty in Fall Crash

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — Two men employed at residential schools for at-risk children have struck plea deals on charges stemming from a single-vehicle crash last fall in Lebanon.Jeffrey Caron, 48, pleaded guilty on Monday in Lebanon Circuit Court to a violation of...

N.H. Juvenile Lifers Await Resentencing

By Holly Ramer

Concord — The victims were four men and three women, shot or stabbed to death between 1991 and 2009. The crimes differed, but the outcomes were the same: Five men, convicted in homicides committed when they were 17, have been serving life sentences...

WRJ Man Held on Assault, Kidnapping

By Patrick O’Grady

White River Junction — A White River Junction man who is on parole for a 1999 second-degree murder conviction in Addison County is being held without bail after a Windsor Superior Court judge found probable cause to charge him with three felonies...

Orange Southwest Names Superintendent

By John P. Gregg

Randolph — The Orange Southwest School Board has voted to hire a Vermont native who most recently worked as a high school principal in Massachusetts to be the new superintendent of Randolph-area schools.Layne Millington, 49, is expected to start on...

New Use for Home Hill Inn Approved

By Patrick O’Grady

Plainfield  — The Zoning Board of Adjustment on Monday night unanimously approved a special exception to the use of the former Home Hill Inn property, the first step toward allowing a residential treatment center for youth to operate out of the River...

A Change in Ownership: Canaan, Enfield Mobile Home Parks Now Cooperatives

By Tim Camerato

Canaan — Two mobile home parks in the Mascoma valley are now owned and operated by residents who recently formed cooperatives to purchase the properties.The former Daniels Acres Mobile Home Park in Enfield and former Pleasant Valley Mobile Home Park...

Crowdsourced: Photos, Videos From the Flooding and Aftermath

By Maggie Cassidy

Officials: Wild Boar Struck and Killed on Interstate

By Jordan Cuddemi

West Lebanon — Wildlife officials say a wild boar that was struck and killed on Interstate 89 on Tuesday morning likely was an escapee of Corbin Park, a game preserve that encompasses more than 20,000 acres in parts of Croydon, Grantham, Cornish,...

Lebanon High Students Grow as They Go

By Tim Camerato

Lebanon — As he took to the podium outside Lebanon High School on Thursday night, English and social studies teacher Will Connell delivered some unusual news to the class of 2017.“My message to you today my dear graduates is a simple one and at first...

Paying It Forward in Hanover

By Rob Wolfe

Hanover — Along with current-events references to bears and bygone pizza parlors, Hanover High School on Friday celebrated its 2017 graduates by reminding them to remember their privilege as they enter the wider world.Benjamin Seaman, who gave the...

Essential Oils Can Repel Mice, Spiders

By Paul Pogue

Sometimes the most natural methods work best. You can get rid of mice using a reliable old snap-trap, and nothing takes out spiders like a rolled-up newspaper. But if you want to get rid of spiders and mice with minimal force, essential oils may...

Grantham Hires Superintendent

By Tim Camerato

Grantham — A longtime New Hampshire educator and school administrator recently was selected to succeed outgoing Grantham Superintendent Jacqueline Guillette.Sydney Leggett, of Gilford, N.H., will take over as superintendent of the one-school SAU 75...

Company Restores Hydropower Plant on Sugar River in Claremont

By Patrick O’Grady

Claremont — On a warm, sunny morning last week, after days of steady rain, water crashes over a concrete dam on the Sugar River and boils in foaming rapids on its way to the Connecticut River.Next to the dam, along the riverbank off Lafayette Street,...