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By ZEKE MILLER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the...

By NICK PERRY

MANCHESTER, N.H. — 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...

By MICHELLE L. PRICE

President-elect Donald Trump named Karoline Leavitt, a former Congressional candidate from New Hampshire, to serve as his White House press secretary.Leavitt, 27, currently a spokesperson for Trump’s transition, would be the youngest White House press...

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...

Associated Press and Monitor staff reports

Former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris notched early wins in reliably Republican and Democratic states, respectively, as a divided America made its decision in a stark choice for the nation’s future Tuesday.Polls closed in...

By NICK PERRY, MICHAEL CASEY and PATRICK WHITTLE

MEREDITH, N.H. — New England leaf-watching season is in full swing, as people from as far as Florida and Berlin flock to the region for scenic drives, train rides and bus tours to soak in the splendid hues of red, orange and bronze. With quaint towns...

By JAMIE STENGLE

Whether a 2-year-old beaver named Nibi gets to stay with the rescuers she has known since she was a baby or must be released into the wild as winter approaches in Massachusetts has ended up in court — and caused such an uproar that even the governor...

By HOLLY RAMER

Lawrence “Larry” Laughlin, a calm, kind and quick-witted journalist whose 38-year career included two decades as the northern New England bureau chief for The Associated Press, has died. He was 75.Laughlin, who lived in Concord, New Hampshire, died...

By KATHY McCORMACK

A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it.Robert Tulloch was 17 when he...

WINDSOR, N.H. — Rescuers came to the aid of a child who became wedged between two boulders and was trapped for more than nine hours, a New Hampshire fire chief said Monday.The child, estimated to be 11 or 12, was pried out of the boulders in Windsor...

By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, COLLEEN LONG, ERIC TUCKER and ZEKE MILLER

Donald Trump was the target Sunday of “what appears to be an attempted assassination” at his golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida, the FBI said, just nine weeks after the Republican presidential nominee survived another attempt on his life. The...

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu came to the aid of a contestant choking on a lobster roll at a seafood festival eating contest, using the Heimlich maneuver after the man signaled for help.The contestant, Christian Moreno, recovered and resumed eating...

By CALEB JONES

A man being pursued in the killing of a woman in New Hampshire was fatally shot by police on a bridge that connects the state to Maine, authorities said Thursday. An 8-year-old child was found shot to death in the man's car. The Piscataqua River...

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 LISA RATHKE

Powdr Corp., which owns multiple ski resorts in the U.S. and Canada, is selling Vermont’s Killington Resort and Pico Mountain, the largest mountain resort in New England, to a group of local passholders, the company said Thursday.Powdr also said it...

By MICHAEL CASEY

An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists. Dunyadar Gasanov, 39, pled guilty in Springfield, Massachusetts to three counts of...

By PATRICK WHITTLE

Sea turtles strandings have increased dramatically. Congress might create a fund to bail them outEds: UPDATES: Updates Media.PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Sea turtle strandings have ticked up at an alarming rate in New England, but now the reptiles are close...

By ZEKE MILLER, COLLEEN LONG, STEVE KARNOWSKI, WILL WEISSERT and SEUNG MIN KIM

WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris picked Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz to be her running mate on Tuesday, according to three people familiar with her decision, after a breakneck selection process that began barely two weeks ago when she suddenly...

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 HOLLY RAMER

A man charged with sexually assaulting a teenage boy at New Hampshire’s youth detention center decades ago has died while awaiting trial, his lawyer said Wednesday.Gordon Thomas Searles, 68, died Sunday, said attorney Joseph Fricano. He said he did...

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

LYNDON, Vt. — Weeks after Jason Pilbin witnessed a driver get swept away by floodwaters, his northeastern Vermont community was ravaged again by flooding from heavy rains.Pilbin went outside with a flashlight and headlamp around 2:30 a.m. Tuesday to...