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By ALYSSA DANDREA

A Concord dentist charged with assaulting a woman in the parking lot of a company-sponsored event in 2015 has settled with prosecutors.Mostafa El-Sherif, 60, of Bedford has completed three hours of one-on-one sexual harassment training and 40 hours of...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Doug Griffin’s view on the opioid epidemic has shifted since he lost his daughter, Courtney, to a fentanyl overdose three years ago at the age of 20.At first, he shied away from his pastor even mentioning how Courtney died during her funeral service....

By DAVID BROOKS

On Snow Brook Farm in Eaton, as on many New Hampshire farms, there’s a desire to take agriculture back to its natural roots. When it comes to feeding pigs, the farm’s owners have taken to using plants that aren’t even part of agriculture.The four...

By LOLA DUFFORT

Thanks to the Merrimack and the Suncook rivers, Pembroke is blessed with multiple floodplains. But not, as it turns out, quite as many as early European settlers had hoped. Settled by the English in the 1730s, the town was first laid out on a grid,...

By DAVID BROOKS

One of the mysteries of the Ralph Pill Marketplace is its very prominent name, since the Massachusetts-based suppliers of electrical components didn’t build the tower and hasn’t existed since it sold out to another firm a decade ago.“When we converted...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

To catch a piglet, you gotta go for its hind legs.That’s what Carole Soule, standing amid a litter of pigs, thermometer in hand, will tell you. On an overcast afternoon at Miles Smith Farm in Loudon, she’d been tasked with catching one of her sick...

By LOLA DUFFORT

A Sullivan County Superior Court judge is expected to decide Friday whether to grant a Sunapee family a restraining order against the town’s police chief.During a roughly three-hour hearing Thursday in Newport, Heather and Joseph Furlong accused...

By ELIZABETH FRANTZ

Barely a year old, Tiny Living Spaces, a new home construction business in Henniker, is still getting off the ground, but there’s no shortage of interest in the niche market it aims to serve.“Oh, cool. You’re building tiny houses,” Michael Charron...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Anyone can see Harold Harasko loves his lady.You can hear it in the way he talks about her sturdy strength, her quiet dignity, her cheerful whistle. You can see it in the way he handles her – making sure she has enough room to turn around, or how...

By NICK REID

Authorities on Friday unveiled the true identity of a serial killer who used an alias while he murdered five people tied to two New Hampshire cold cases.The man who killed a woman and three children and stuffed their bodies into barrels near Bear...

By LOLA DUFFORT

In New Hampshire, a school district will pay teachers, on average, anywhere from $34,800 to $78,498 a year. The difference in salaries is the result of several factors – tax-base, affluence, and a community’s general willingness to pay. But in poorer...

By NICK REID

If you’ve ever parked on the side of a state highway in the White Mountains – as so many drivers do – and worried that you might get a ticket, it probably wasn’t worth worrying about.Take this example: At the gateway to the Pemigawasset Wilderness is...

By DAVID BROOKS

The horrible conditions at an alleged puppy mill of Great Danes in Wolfeboro reflect a fact that isn’t always obvious: Breeding dogs is a difficult business.“Doing it well is much harder than people probably realize,” said Stephen Crawford, the New...

By ALYSSA DANDREAand NICK REID

A homeless man had some shots of whiskey at a bar Wednesday night, found a 9mm pistol and recklessly fired it 30 times in downtown Concord, a prosecutor said.No one was struck, but “there were certainly people in the area” when Timothy Dearborn, 33,...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Two alleged motorcycle club members, including a Hells Angels member, are among four New Hampshire men arrested recently on federal drug trafficking charges following an investigation officials say spanned several years.James Cunningham, 60, of...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

The Merrimack County Attorney’s office has dismissed its case against a former Proctor Academy student accused of sexual assault.Derek Tillotson, 20, of Bow was scheduled to stand trial this week in Merrimack County Superior Court in Concord on three...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Not much can stop Kati Preston from telling her story.The 78-year-old Holocaust survivor had a knee replacement operation almost three weeks ago. Recovery requires lots of bed rest in her Barnstead farmhouse, and most would probably prefer to take it...

By ELLA NILSEN

Filmmaker Todd Wider was first inspired to make a documentary about mental illness when he experienced it firsthand in his hometown of New York City.Wider came home one night to find that a homeless man had broken in because he was cold and trying to...

By ELLA NILSEN

When Jocarl Bureau became upset, his eyes got huge and he started yelling, according to his ex-girlfriend.“When he gets mad about something, he doesn’t think,” Loreal Williams told police in an interview last April.The things that set him off were...

By DAVID BROOKS

In a possible blow to Northern Pass, another utility giant wants to build a power line carrying Quebec electricity through New Hampshire – but this one would involve little of the right-of-way construction that has generated so much controversy for...