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CLAREMONT — Two people were injured in a motorcycle accident on Main Street in Claremont on Thursday afternoon, according to a news release from the fire department. The city’s fire and police departments, as well as Golden Cross Ambulance, responded...

By RAY COUTURE

ENFIELD — Dark clouds and a thick haze of rain did not stop the children attending the Enfield Fire Department’s Activity Day on Satur day at Huse Park from wanting yet another go with the fire extinguisher.For many of the kids who stopped by with...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

FAIRLEE — It took more than 10 fire departments to put out a house fire in Fairlee on Quinibeck Point on Wednesday due to the heat, location and time of day, according to Orford Fire Chief Terry Straight.“Due to the extreme heat we needed a lot of...

LEBANON — Lebanon opened cooling shelters on Wednesday amid a heat wave, according to the city’s website.The city's two libraries, the airport and the senior center will be open through Friday. Both the Kilton Library, 80 Main Street in West Lebanon,...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — The summer brush fire season has begun — and the beginning of summer is still a month away.Unseasonably dry spring weather is helping to kindle wildfires around the Upper Valley that caused several town fire departments to spring into...

By JIM KENYON

The day after Keith Gokey was hospitalized in December with third-degree burns over 40% of his body, a Hartford police officer wrote in her investigative report that it was believed “due to the extent of his injuries, he will not survive.” Four and a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Judith Belyea was in her historic farmhouse home on Route 120 on Sunday morning when she was awakened by what sounded like a boom, so she didn’t pay much attention.“I thought it was thunder and lightning in the storm,” Belyea recalled.But...

Enfield Capt. Richard Martin closes a hydrant after firefighters from Enfield, Lebanon, Canaan, Grafton and Hanover, extinguished a fire at an unoccupied house on Route 4 in Enfield, N.H., on Tuesday. Traffic was diverted around the scene from about...

GRANTHAM — A box truck that crashed into the guardrail when it attempted to avoid an animal on Interstate 89 in Grantham early Wednesday morning temporarily shut down the highway but the driver of the vehicle was not injured, New Hampshire State...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — A Geisel School of Medicine building is closed due to significant smoke and water damage incurred in a fire on Sunday morning, according to Dartmouth News. Firefighters responded to a fire alarm at the Remsen Medical Science Building at 66...

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CANAAN — A man died after being rescued from the Indian River off Route 4 near Lafortune Road in Canaan early Friday morning, according to news releases from the Canaan Fire and Police departments.After responding to an 11:40 p.m. call, Canaan Fire,...

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CLAREMONT — Police are investigating after an early-morning fire on Friday heavily damaged a six-unit building on South Street, according to a news release from the Claremont Fire Department.The 13 people inside the building at 181 South St. at the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

PLAINFIELD — Rescue crews retrieved a man who was stranded on the roof of his vehicle after it plunged into the Connecticut River in Plainfield early Wednesday evening, according to Hanover Fire Department.Hanover Fire Chief Jim Wheatley said...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORWICH — When the Norwich Historical Society was burglarized last Thursday, the first person neighbor Priscilla Vincent called after notifying police was Roger Blake, whose dedication to meticulously looking after the 1807 clapboard federal house in...