Courts/Oversight

Judge rules in favor of Belknap Convention majority in challenge to allowing member vote by phone

NH-based insurer sues NHL to limit its defense in players concussion lawsuits

Supreme Court affirms Portsmouth pimp's convictions

Material witness in murder case released from jail

Skaltsis Ponzi scheme victims to receive some compensation

Right-to-know suit field against Dover regarding search for new superintendent

Family of boy injured at Loon in collision loses challenge to NH law immunizing ski areas

NH cities stumble in Great Bay estuary spat

Opinion

John E. Sununu: Time to shake the copper habit

Valley News - Jim Kenyon: Union Leader sells sponsorships for local columns

Carville: If the GOP loses to Hillary in 2016, the Republican Party as we know it is finished

Wonkette: Sununu says Shaheen is the third senator from Massachusetts

Concord Monitor: In Brown, Bush, a glimmer of GOP moderation

Japan Times: U.S. Democrats have an inequality problem

Newburyport News: In Sununu, Scott Brown has a potent ally

John E. Sununu: Mortgage industry overhaul could kill scariness for good

General News

How U.S. agents baited Romanian crooks after Subway in NH hacked

In the agency’s four-agent Manchester, New Hampshire, office, he juggled five or six cases at a time. None were as big as what became known as the “Subway case.”

Court rules couple can sue Bob's Discount Furniture over automated calls regarding delivery

In Count I, the Lamonts claim that BDF violated the TCPA by making automated calls to their cellular telephones without their express permission.

Nicaragua arrests man for strangling UNH graduate over camera

National Police official Glenda Zavala said Fernando Aburto Reyes told investigators he strangled 37-year-old Karen Colclough and stole her camera.

Town attorney tells Milton officials to let family living in car back into home

Neal said Wednesday she was informed by Boyers he had taken the signs down on the orders of the town attorney.

Entergy proposes eliminating emergency planning zone after Vermont Yankee shuts down

The zone, which includes portions of Northfield, Bernardston, Gill, Greenfield, Leyden, Colrain, and Warwick in Massachusetts as well as 11 towns in Vermont and New Hampshire, is no longer needed, Christopher J. Wamser , the nuclear operations site vice president for Entergy, wrote in the company’s formal request to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for exemption.

Massachusetts Air National Guard denies noise in Keene area was sonic boom

Amid fighter jet training exercises by the 104th Fighter Wing Massachusetts Air National Guard, a loud boom was heard and felt around the Monadnock Region Wednesday shortly after 2 p.m.

Woman found dead, husband in distress after Maine police get concerned call from NH friend

The sheriff’s department was called when a friend from New Hampshire telephoned to report that she had been unable to contact the couple for a week.

Insurance industry says NH has nation's 3rd safest roads

Drivers in Vermont, Utah, New Hampshire, Minnesota and Oregon are among the best behaved, according to CarInsuranceComparison.com’s analysis.

Body of Sunapee man missing since February recovered at Vt. dam

NORTH HARTLAND – The body of a Sunapee, N.H. man whose car had been left at the Quechee Gorge in mid-February was recovered at the North Hartland Dam early Wednesday afternoon.

3 youngsters now say they saw fatal accident delaying Lafond trial

LACONIA — Three new eyewitnesses to the car crash that killed a local middle school girl and serious injured another on April 19, 2013 have come forward, prompting both sides to agreed to delay Amy Lafond's trial until at least June or July.

WaPo: Dartmouth College president: School’s ‘promise is being hijacked by extreme behavior’

Philip J. Hanlon, president of Dartmouth College, delivered a speech Wednesday night in which he said that the elite Ivy League school’s promise “is being hijacked by extreme behavior, masked by its perpetrators as acceptable fun.”

NYC billionaire's meddling buoys NH's anti-gun activists

PORTSMOUTH — The state chapter of a national organization to combat gun violence is benefiting from a new partnership announced Wednesday led by former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

How both Gorilla Glass and Sapphire can win covering future Apple iPhones

Apple could be planning a way to incorporate both Corning's Gorilla Glass and GTAT's sapphire into a single display cover to combine the best of both worlds.

177-home subdivision approved by Somersworth Planning Board

SOMERSWORTH — The city’s Planning Board on Wednesday authorized construction of a 177-home subdivision on the former Sunningdale Golf Course.

Meet the Chinook — New Hampshire’s state dog

The Chinook is a rare breed of sled dog developed in the state of New Hampshire by Arthur Treadwell Walden, who had a farm in Wonalancet in the White Mountains during the early 20th century.

Chubby Checker visits area to promote new song

PORTSMOUTH — If there was anything proven with certainty in the Seacoast Wednesday it’s that Chubby Checker can still do The Twist.

Judge orders county attorney to review personnel file of Tilton police officer

LACONIA — Superior Court Judge James O'Neill ordered the Belknap County Attorney to review the personnel file of a Tilton Police corporal and turn over any exculpatory material to the defendant in a rape case investigated by him.

Why Dover man drove 3,000 miles to defend Nevada rancher from feds

This Wednesday, DeLemus remains in Nevada. He is now running the makeshift "militia" of conservatives protecting the ranch, some of whom are armed with handguns and rifles.

Authorities agree Vt. man was insane during killing at Littleton hotel

Senior Assistant Attorney General Susan Morrell said yesterday that the state agrees Rodney Hill of West Danville, Vt., was insane Jan. 28, 2013, when he attacked 70-year-old Catherine Houghton of San Francisco at the Hampton Inn.

Carroll County sheriff fires new police K-9 for biting woman

The K-9, named Khaos, was being trained to replace the sheriff's office's current K-9, named Edge, who is retiring due to terminal cancer.