The commission studying the Concord School District charter has recommended the Legislature relinquish its control, but members argued residents should style the exit strategy.

A family physician who used to practice at a LRGHealthcare-owned practice has been censured by the state Board of Medicine for improperly writing prescriptions to his father and for other lapses in medical record-keeping.

Next time you're stuck in traffic, wondering why an accident up ahead is taking so long to be cleared, just picture Concord police Detective Michael Cassidy on his hands and knees. He's searching for evidence, like a single shard of broken glass or a scrap of a pedestrian's clothes ground into the pavement.

Jeremy Woodward eased himself from bed 2½ years ago with the grace and speed of an old man. He shuffled out the door and onto his training course, a hospital floor that seemed to stretch forever. He took baby steps, wheeling an IV walker alongside, with its bags of fluid and its winding tubes and its reminder of how dependent Woodward had become.