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CONCORD — A legal challenge over whether the sentence imposed on the convicted murderer of two Dartmouth College professors violates the state’s constitution has been sent back to a lower court by the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — The town’s firefighters responded to nearly simultaneous brush fires ignited by gusty winds over the weekend as officials urged the public to make doubly sure outdoor fires are thoroughly extinguished amid the spring wildfire season.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 74-year-old Newbury, Vt., man who shot and killed his 38-year-old daughter when she came to his home for a welfare check has been found insane and will not stand trial.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BURLINGTON — A former Grantham physician was sentenced to eight months in federal prison and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution for unlawfully distributing opioid medication to clients at drug rehabilitation clinics that he co-owned with another former Upper Valley doctor.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A state Superior Court judge has sentenced a Dartmouth College alumnus to 20 to 40 years in state prison for raping a woman at a campus fraternity house in 2022.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — State prosecutors are seeking a 30- to 60-year prison sentence for Kyle Clampitt, the Dartmouth College alumnus who was convicted earlier this year of raping an 18-year-old first-year student on the rooftop of a campus fraternity house in 2022.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — The Trump administration’s promise to deport millions of foreign nationals who it says are in the U.S. illegally has reached into the Upper Valley as two individuals associated with Dartmouth College have had their visas terminated, leading one of them to sue the Department of Homeland Security to challenge his deportation.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT, Vt. — A Hartford man who was serving dual federal and state prison sentences following his arrest in a high-profile police raid nearly two years ago died in a Vermont state prison over the weekend.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

In a few weeks Dave Kemp will be making his annual pilgrimage to the Vermont Maple Festival in St. Albans, where he will tour the open houses of sugaring equipment manufacturers clustered nearby.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSVILLE — After 138 years as an independent bank — and the oldest in the Upper Valley — Woodsville Guaranty Savings Bank is merging with a Maine bank that in recent years has made a push into New Hampshire and Vermont.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — After months of delays, back-and-forths and testy exchanges between the developers and city representatives, the Lebanon Planning Board recently approved a one-year extension for the site plan of River Park.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Forgoing a formal search, Windsor Town Manager Tom Marsh has tapped Weathersfield Police Chief Bill Daniels to be Windsor’s next police chief.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — Festering tensions within the Woodstock Police Department spilled out into the open this week as the town’s police chief fought for his job at a marathon public hearing where the town manager and several department employees detailed their complaints about and lack of confidence in the chief’s leadership.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 65-year-old Vershire woman has been criminally charged in connection with the death of an 82-year-old pedestrian, who she struck with her car in Chelsea four months ago and subsequently died from his injuries, according to police.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

A package of proposed new laws from Gov. Phil Scott’s administration seeks to address the public’s concerns over crime by reining in some Democrat-led initiatives in recent years while at the same time recognizing that Vermonters would not accept a far-right lurch on law enforcement.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

April Frost, she might agree, probably got along better with dogs than her own species. But it was through canines that she believed people could open a new dimension into what it means to be human.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Sam Gregory said he worried that the investigation into the death of his daughter, Sammantha Cruger, would stall out after Woodsville Police Det. Wayne Fortier, who had been investigating the case, died in 2021.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Superior Court judge has denied a request by defense attorneys to obtain the email addresses and phone numbers of members of jury for a sexual assault trial earlier this year.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Chief Jen Frank is trading maple trees for palm trees.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A Bethel man who faced a felony manslaughter charge for allegedly not responding quickly enough to aid a friend who died from a drug overdose after collapsing in his apartment pleaded no contest to a reduced misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment and received a fully suspended jail sentence in Orange County court.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 2017 graduate of Hanover High School has been charged with sexually assaulting a Thetford woman.