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By JESSICA DAMIANO

Gardening isn’t usually the first thing that springs to mind when the calendar page turns to January. But with the holidays behind us, there’s no better time to start planning and preparing our 2024 gardens.Of course, that will mean different things...

By NICK PERRY

MEREDITH, N.H. — Flooding from a burst water main at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital has disrupted services for about 200 patients seeking to have children through in vitro fertilization, leaving some of them devastated.Alexis Goulette, who runs...

By HOLLY RAMER

New Hampshire lawmakers started the new year with old business Wednesday, taking up hundreds of bills left over from 2023. But they also looked ahead to the rest of 2024, with some Democrats demanding action on gun control and Republicans describing...

TITUSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into plumes of smoke and fire after liftoff, has died. He was 77.A statement released by the North Brevard...

By LISA RATHKE

CASTLETON, Vt. (AP) — Vermont State Police on Wednesday released a sketch of a person of interest in the killing of a retired college dean who was shot dead last week while walking on her favorite trail near the Vermont State University campus.The...

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — In a ritual unruffled by either a changing of the guard or changes to the nominating calendar elsewhere, the filing period for the New Hampshire presidential primary started Wednesday with a Democratic candidate who criticized...

By HOLLY RAMER

Olivera Sotelo’s 19-year-old daughter was late returning from a solo hike, and she wasn’t answering her phone. Panicking at the trailhead, Sotelo called her husband for help.“I could not stop my anxiety,” she said. Emily Sotelo emerged from the woods...

By WILSON RING

BURLINGTON, Vt. — A Los Angeles biotech investor pleaded not guilty Tuesday in a transcontinental murder-for-hire conspiracy that led to the 2018 abduction and killing of a Vermont man.Serhat Gumrukcu, a 39-year-old Turkish citizen, appeared in U.S....

By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER

Ghislaine Maxwell, the jet-setting socialite who once consorted with royals, presidents and billionaires, was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in prison for helping the financier Jeffrey Epstein sexually abuse underage girls.The stiff sentence was a...

By HOLLY RAMER

A New Hampshire man who spent six years in state custody as a child is suing multiple facilities alleging physical and sexual abuse.The lawsuit filed Tuesday is the latest of more than 400 targeting the Sununu Youth Services Center, formerly called...

By MICHAEL CASEY

The number of dams in New Hampshire most at risk of failing has increased 51% in the past three years, according to an Associated Press analysis.The state saw its numbers of high-hazard dams in either poor or unsatisfactory condition go from 37 to 56,...

By KATHY McCORMACK

The sentences of two men convicted of murder as teenagers decades ago were upheld Tuesday by the New Hampshire Supreme Court, which disagreed with their lawyers that the terms amount to life imprisonment. Robert Dingman, 42, was 17 when he and his...

By DANICA KIRKA and LINDSEY BAHR

In the latest blow to the beleaguered film industry, the second-largest movie theater chain in the U.S. is temporarily shuttering its locations due to a lack of blockbusters on the calendar and major domestic markets like New York remaining...

By KIM COOK

Ever wonder how paint colors get their names? If you’re shopping for pink, say, you’ll find dozens of shades referencing roses, bubblegum and shells. There are some extra-evocative names like Calamine and Dead Salmon. And what about a pink called...

By KATHERINE ROTH

In a digital and increasingly paperless age, fans of paper planners remain enthusiastic and steadfast.“There’s something comforting about using a planner. It’s very personal, and apart from the cacophony of screens,” says Jennie Tung, executive editor...

By KIM TONG-HYUNG and FOSTER KLUG

A notorious South Korean facility that kidnapped, abused and enslaved children and the disabled for a generation was also shipping children overseas for adoption, part of a massive profit-seeking enterprise that thrived by exploiting those trapped...

By MIKE STOBBE and JENNIFER McDERMOTT

The number of U.S. deaths and illnesses from a rare mosquito-borne virus are higher than usual this year, health officials report.Eastern equine encephalitis has been diagnosed in 21 people in six states, and five people have died. The infection is...

By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

Ten straight years of growth. Unemployment at a five-decade low. Higher wages for the poorest workers.The economic expansion that just became America’s longest on record didn’t produce an especially fast pace of growth. It didn’t narrow the vast gap...

By LEE REICH

A labyrinth garden should not be puzzling – that’s a maze. A labyrinth and a maze were once the same, but the labyrinth has recently grown to become a totally different animal.Enter a labyrinth and every turn you make is the correct one, leading you...

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS

A national Hispanic center is displaying a unique art exhibit on the chola – the working class, Mexican-American urban female often associated with gangs.The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque opened the “Que Chola Exhibition” last month...