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BETHEL — A groundswell of support has emerged for the town’s former longtime fire chief, who quit in protest last week after he was not allowed to remove a volunteer firefighter who made a controversial social media post.The firefighter said he was...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

SOUTH ROYALTON — A Saturday morning fire rapidly engulfed and consumed a home on Broad Brook Road, displacing the residents who are now sheltering at a hotel in White River Junction.Evan Burnham said that he discovered a fire in the utility...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — The last time Amber Dow saw Christina Chatlos she pleaded with her friend to “fight for your life.” “I told her ‘I sure hope you’re not the next friend I see buried from overdosing’,” Dow recalled telling Christina as the two went for a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 35-year-old New Hampshire man has been handed down multiple, consecutive prison sentences after pleading guilty to threatening to “shoot up” a Hanover restaurant.He could be free by September, however, due to the amount of time he...

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NEWPORT — The wife of a former Newport School Board member charged with having sex with an underage teen has now been indicted herself on a charge of witness tampering in an investigation that links two high-profile criminal cases and reveals why the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — In a decision that could ripple across the law enforcement community around the state, the New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that a former Claremont officer and current state legislator’s disciplinary records relating to his time as a...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Students remained in their classroom, activities room, auditorium and even locker room while police detained a 39-year-old man outside Lebanon High School and Hanover Street School on Friday afternoon.The incident, in which police...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWBURY, Vt. — In a sharp reversal, the state of Vermont has backed off a contentious plan to open a locked juvenile facility in Newbury, as a state commissioner says he is seeking a “fresh start” with the town that bitterly opposed the...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — The Vermont state trooper who sustained serious injuries when his vehicle collided into the back end of a fire truck near the Bethel exit on Interstate 89 last week remains hospitalized and the next several days “will be critical in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

The medical condition of a Vermont State Police trooper who sustained serious injuries when his police vehicle crashed into a firetruck on Interstate 89 in Royalton last week was unknown on Monday, but police have identified the officer as Cpl. Eric...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — A 20-year-old West Lebanon woman previously from New Jersey has been charged after a vehicle struck a school crossing guard after failing to stop at a crosswalk near Mount Lebanon Elementary School earlier this week.Atlantis Alpheaus was...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

TUNBRIDGE — Voters added $40,000 to the budget to pay for expanded policing and gave the Selectboard the green light to draw up a noise ordinance and adopt a “declaration of inclusion” affirming the town welcomes everyone regardless of their race or...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — One of the longest-running legal battles in the Upper Valley may be drawing to a close. But whether people living near the battlefield will rejoice at the peace is another matter.The nonprofit Carter Community Building Association, operator...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A South Royalton man’s bid to withdraw his guilty plea for shooting and killing his estranged wife in front of her nephew and brother has been nixed by a Vermont state judge.Frank Sanville failed to show “that he did not...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CONCORD — The former head of one of the Upper Valley’s leading charities has pleaded guilty to embezzling donations, acknowledging that he spent the money for personal use and to gamble at a casino in western Massachusetts.In U.S. District Court in...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — Dartmouth College President Sian Leah Beilock was among a group of senior college administrators who huddled together in an effort to determine what to do about two Dartmouth students who refused to leave a tent pitched in front of her...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

BRIDGEWATER — A 33-year-old man who was shot in the leg during an early morning encounter at a Tunbridge residence more than two months ago is at home in Plymouth, Vt., and recovering after spending nearly six weeks in the hospital and then a physical...

By JOHN LIPPMAN

ROYALTON — A 37-year-old Tunbridge man died following a two-vehicle crash in which he was at the wheel of one vehicle when it crossed the center line in the road and collided with another vehicle on Route 14 in Royalton on Friday morning.David Allen...

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STRAFFORD — Neighbors, friends, coworkers and anonymous contributors rushed to help a Strafford resident hours after her home burned down early on Thursday morning in a house fire the claimed the life of the resident’s mother. It was the second time...

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CONCORD — A Hanover man is seeking to have his conviction on child pornography charges overturned by the state’s Supreme Court, arguing that he was unaware the sexually explicit images were on his computer and the state lacked sufficient evidence to...