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NORTH HAVERHILL — A Woodsville man has been arrested and charged with attempting to kidnap an 11-year-old boy at gunpoint, but the accused’s defense attorney says it is a case of mistaken identity and police apprehended the wrong man.Keith Teele, of...

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ROYALTON — A Bethel man faces criminal charges after allegedly failing to aid a South Royalton woman who overdosed at his residence or call emergency responders in a timely manner before she died early this year, police said.Jody White, 54, has been...

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NEW LONDON — State financial regulators have suspended a New London financial advisory firm from conducting business after determining that the firm has a negative net worth and its owner breached fiduciary duties on behalf of his clients.Merryfield...

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CROYDON — Federal aviation authorities are investigating what led to a Sunday night helicopter crash in Croydon that claimed the life of a New Hampshire pilot with five decades of flying experience, officials said Monday.Carl Svenson, 73, of Loudon,...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A Quechee man who was charged with lighting a blaze at a Hartford motel 16 months ago in a dispute over a drug deal has pleaded guilty to arson and other charges.Ethan Lavoie pleaded guilty to the charges of arson, burglary and...

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HANOVER — Police fanned out around a Dartmouth College sports facility and the Co-op Food Store in search of an unidentified man who entered the town water pumping station off Lebanon Street and allegedly menaced a worker with a screwdriver. The...

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CLAREMONT — The 29-year-old man who died in a motorcycle crash in Charlestown on Tuesday night spent his own life saving people in vehicle collisions and other life-threatening situations, colleagues and friends recalled this week.Ian Pierce, a...

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HANOVER — A Dartmouth College student who was accused of robbing an armored vehicle in Colorado earlier this year had the criminal charges against him dismissed, the judicial record sealed and is back on campus in Hanover and enrolled as a student.All...

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NEWPORT — The victim’s family and the perpetrator’s family recounted how their lives have been shattered by physical violence Thursday as a Charlestown man was sentenced for negligent homicide in Sullivan County Superior Court.Marcel Boucher, 43, of...

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NORWICH — Bob Dean liked to ride his bicycle between his home in Norwich and work in Hanover and Etna. That wasn’t unusual — bike commuters are common around the towns.What was uncommon is that Dean was likely the only one-legged cyclist to pedal the...

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CHELSEA — A 37-year-old man was ordered Monday to undergo a competency evaluation after he allegedly burned down his cabin on a back road in Strafford over the weekend.Edward Gallagher III, of Taylor Valley Road, was arrested and charged with arson in...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 30-year-old Hartford man has pleaded guilty to a sex offense that occurred more than 13 years ago, concluding a three-year prosecution in which the state’s case was undercut after a judge found that police investigators had...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — Five people who were part of a sunset balloon ride over the Upper Valley on Wednesday night are breathing a sigh of relief after their craft became “stalled in flight” and had to make an emergency landing on Interstate 91 near...

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NORTH HAVERHILL — A Cornish man who was charged with firing a gun at another vehicle during a road rage incident near downtown Lebanon last year has been found incompetent and the charges against him dismissed.Donald Delisle, 51, of Harrington Road in...

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HANOVER — A 25-year-old Dartmouth College alumnus has been indicted and charged with raping and physically assaulting an 18-year-old woman at a campus fraternity house.Kyle Clampitt, a 2020 graduate and member of the men’s lacrosse team from New...

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NORTH HAVERHILL — The head of Grafton County’s delegation of state representatives said he would need a “formal recommendation” from the county’s Board of Commissioners before he could ask members to take up the issue of removing the county’s Register...

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ORFORD — An attempted helicopter rescue of an injured hiker on Mount Cube in Orford had to be abandoned due to foul weather on Monday, but more than 30 emergency personnel dispatched to the scene were eventually able to transport the injured hiker...

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CLAREMONT — The person who shot and injured a man who had barged his way inside of an apartment won’t be charged, police said on Wednesday, but the shooting victim, who was critically injured, is still under investigation.Loren Richardson was shot in...

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WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A White River Junction couple who police allege were selling fentanyl-laced cocaine that caused multiple people to overdose are facing drug and weapons charges following a high-profile raid of their home across from Hartford...

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A lifelong South Woodstock resident and her husband died in a vehicle collision in Mendon, Vt., on Monday, three years after a fire destroyed the couple’s home and belongings, which they replaced with support from the community.Jean and John...