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By RAY DUCKLER

Two contrasting expressions surfaced during our 2019 coverage of homelessness, illustrating the sadness and hope that can accompany this issue.On one hand, we found Allie Eckersley, whose father, ex-pitcher Dennis Eckersley, is in baseball’s Hall of...

By MICHAEL MOFFETT

In 1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt sought an unprecedented third term as president. But while his first two elections were landslides, the political landscape had changed. Americans were inherently troubled by the notion of an entitled presidency and a...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Seated before the New Hampshire Parole Board on Thursday, convicted murderer Clifford “Edgar” Avery Jr. showed no remorse for killing a Concord woman more than four decades ago and continued to profess his innocence.“I don’t believe I pose any risk to...

By RAY DUCKLER

Martha Taylor, the official Henniker town historian, believes ghosts may exist.Not this ghost, though. Not the ghost named Mary Wallace – once connected to her hometown – despite visual evidence to the contrary, shown on a recent documentary on the...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

As part of an amended plea deal, a former Pembroke Academy student convicted Monday of assaulting female classmates must register as a sex offender in New Hampshire for up to 10 years.However, Griffin Furlotte, 18, could petition the superior court to...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Concord police carried out a drug raid on Manchester Street early Friday morning that yielded five arrests.Additionally, police recovered a car on site that had been reported stolen from Vermont.Law enforcement executed a search warrant and arrest...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

There is a corner of Paulette Boghosian’s store on South Main Street where customers can fill decorated bags with 10 cent Swedish Fish and FireBall candies. In another section, visitors sift through piles of patterned paper to make their own free,...

By TIM O’SULLIVAN

DERRY – Coe-Brown arrived at Saturday’s Division II volleyball championships relaxed and ready. The No. 6 Bears didn’t have the weight of expectations on their shoulders against top-ranked, undefeated, defending-champion Gilford, but they did have...

By LEAH WILLINGHAM

When Claire Lajoie left rehab to move into her new apartment in Penacook, it was cause for celebration.A family friend gave her furniture and a wooden dresser, which Claire polished in the yard of her childhood home in Concord.She went shopping for...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

All criminal charges have been dropped against a man accused of breaking into a stranger’s home and molesting a 13-year-old girl while she slept in Concord.Miles Anderson, who police said was homeless at the time, was found mentally incompetent to...

By DAVID BROOKS

Merrimack Station, the big power plant in Bow, is used to being in the middle of battles, whether they involved the half-billion-dollar scrubber, tax payments to Bow or the temperature of Merrimack River water.Now it finds itself in the midst of...

By DAVID BROOKS

If you look up while strolling South Main Street you’ll find there’s a colorful addition to downtown Concord, and if all goes as planned it will be an informative addition as well.“Last week they were red because St. Paul’s School went back to school....

By JEAN STIMMELL

I had a dream the other night I can’t shake: I am driving through a desolate land, over a maze of logging trails, trying to find the location of my new job, when suddenly a giant snapping turtle, almost as wide as my truck, steps into the path and...

By RAY DUCKLER

For the human side to the story, Monday’s press conference at the Weare Police Department served its purpose.Officer Paul Lewis, his right arm totally bandaged beginning with his knuckles, was grateful he could celebrate his 28th birthday, seven days...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

In the last seven months, the Merrimack County prosecutors’ office has experienced rapid staff turnover, the county hired an independent investigator to evaluate a potentially hostile work environment and some police chiefs are growing concerned about...

By NICK STOICO

A woman who went missing in April was found dead in a Hillsboro storage unit last weekend, police say.Linda Minery, 53, was renting the unit where she was found Saturday at Hillsboro Mini Storage, Hillsboro police Lt. Derek Brown said.Police do not...

By NICK STOICO

Sunday’s NASCAR race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway came down to a last-lap shootout.Fans rose from their seats as veteran drivers Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin bumped and nudged one another through the final lap with Harvick edging out the win by...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A Concord man convicted of sexually assaulting a 7-year-old girl while he was on parole for domestic violence was sentenced Tuesday to 16 to 32 years in state prison.Nickolas Micucci, 32, is eligible to have his minimum sentence reduced by five years...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A former Concord student and her father are asking a federal judge to force the school district to hand over four years of records as part of their lawsuit that says administrators improperly investigated the girl’s report of sexual assault and failed...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

A different type of rail trail has opened up in Concord.Scenic RailRiders opened Friday off Sewalls Falls Road in Concord along an abandoned stretch of Pan Am Railways track that stretches from above the state prison to Commercial Street in...