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By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — Former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte was sworn as the 83rd governor of New Hampshire on Thursday, promising to bring people together and build on the state’s successes while also warning that budget cuts are coming.

By HOLLY RAMER

MANCHESTER, N.H. — The first of multiple sexual assault trials started Wednesday for a man whose arrest more than five years ago thrust allegations of widespread abuse at New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center into the public eye.

By NICK PERRY

MEREDITH, N.H. — A Massachusetts couple and their two daughters were identified by authorities Friday as the victims of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after they were found dead at their lake house in New Hampshire on Christmas Day.Matthew...

By KATHY McCORMACK

Tiki, a 20-year-old blind black-and-white cat, likes to roam about outdoors. But this time he caused a scare after he was seen on ice floating in a Massachusetts pond and then fell in.He has an alert passerby and a couple of nearby construction...

By MICHAEL CASEY

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. — For the nearly three decades that he was behind bars, Michael Sullivan’s mother and four siblings died, his girlfriend moved on with her life and he was badly beaten in several prison attacks.All for a murder he long insisted he...

By LISA RATHKE

PEACHAM — The last thing John and Jenny Mackenzie saw as they fled their Vermont home with their daughters, dog and two guinea pigs last summer was their cars upended and propelled away by rushing flood waters.Minutes earlier they had abandoned their...

By MICHAEL CASEY

MIDDLEBORO, Mass. — Weeks before Thanksgiving, some of the cranberries that graced dinner plates Thursday were floating on the Rocky Meadow bog in southeastern Massachusetts.The cranberries have turned this pond pinkish crimson. Several workers, up to...

By NICK PERRY

MANCHESTER — A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found a former leader at a youth detention center guilty of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998.Bradley Asbury, now 70, was found guilty on two counts of being an accomplice to aggravated sexual...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — Democrats maintained their dominance in New Hampshire’s congressional delegation Tuesday, with U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas reelected in the 1st District and newcomer Maggie Goodlander winning the open 2nd District seat.Goodlander, a former White...

By ZEKE MILLER, MICHELLE L. PRICE, WILL WEISSERT and JILL COLVIN

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former president who refused to accept defeat four years ago, sparked a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, was convicted...

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD — A lawsuit filed Monday challenges a New Hampshire law that would require proof of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote and photo identification when casting a ballot, saying it is one of the most restrictive voting laws in the...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — New Hampshire will elect a female governor for the third time in November after former U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte and former Manchester Mayor Joyce Craig won their respective primaries Tuesday.The governor’s office is an open seat for the first...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD — New Hampshire primary voters are picking candidates for governor, Congress and their entire Legislature on Tuesday, setting the stage for short but intense general election campaigns. In contrast to its first-in-the-nation presidential...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. — The first criminal case linked to New Hampshire’s sprawling child abuse scandal ended in a mistrial Tuesday after a jury deadlocked on charges against a former youth detention facility staffer accused of raping a teenage girl in...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

A New Hampshire resident infected with the mosquito-borne eastern equine encephalitis virus has died, state health authorities said.The Hampstead resident’s infection was the first in the state in a decade, the New Hampshire Department of Health and...

By NICK PERRY

MEREDITH, N.H. — The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools.The issue of how to treat transgender athletes...

CONCORD — A Virginia-based political marketing company has agreed to pay a $40,000 fine to settle allegations that flyers it designed during the 2022 New Hampshire state primary violated the law.Forms submitted to the U.S. Postal Service identified...

By PATRICK WHITTLE and MICHAEL CASEY

Vermont is flooding. Not just this week, two weeks ago and a year before that, but experts say the state could see catastrophic events like these for the foreseeable future. Climate change is fueling stronger, more persistent storms and the state’s...

By LISA RATHKE, NICK PERRY, DAVID SHARP and KATHY McCORMACK

LYNDON, Vt. — Thunderstorms and torrential rain brought another wave of violent floods Tuesday that caved in roads, crushed vehicles, pushed homes off their foundations and led to dramatic boat rescues in northeastern Vermont, nearly three weeks after...

By JULIE CARR SMYTH, JILL COLVIN, COLLEEN LONG, MICHAEL BALSAMO, ERIC TUCKER and MICHELLE L. PRICE

BUTLER, Pa. — Former President Donald Trump called for unity and resilience Sunday after an attempt on his life added fresh uncertainty to an already tumultuous presidential campaign and raised sharp questions about how a gunman was able to open fire...

By LISA RATHKE

PLAINFIELD, Vt. — The remnants of Hurricane Beryl dumped heavy rain on Vermont, washing away much of an apartment building, knocking out bridges and cutting off towns, and retraumatizing a state still recovering from catastrophic floods that hit a...