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By RAY DUCKLER

The local jock from a family of well-known jocks doesn’t fit the mold.At least not the kind we see in the movies and on TV. Not even close.Sure, Joey Craigue still loves sports, breathes sports, eats sports like Fred Flintstone chomping on a...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Growing up, Evenor and Natalia Pineda couldn’t hug their father and say “I love you” before bed. Instead, the young children clung to the sound of his voice, which he recorded from prison to CDs that accompanied books of their favorite stories. “We...

By NICK REID

The weather turned wet in the White Mountains on Christmas Eve, likely sopping a Massachusetts hiker who had set out alone on a challenging trek into the Pemigewasset Wilderness.The 26-year-old had adequate experience and equipment to venture onto the...

By DAVID BROOKS

Marc Geaumont doesn’t work for a telephone company, but when it comes to utility poles, he has a confession to make. “People in my family still call them telephone poles,” the director of field operations for Eversource Energy in New Hampshire...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

Early Tuesday morning, 17 Laconia police officers fanned out across several towns, including Concord, to arrest 12 individuals wanted for drug possession and distribution charges.The operation began at 6 a.m. with officers executing warrants on the...

By NICK REID

The Salvation Army’s McKenna House celebrated the completion of a major expansion Thursday, allowing the year-round emergency shelter to increase its capacity by 60 percent.Beyond adding 16 beds for the city’s homeless residents, the 3,500-square-foot...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A month after a beloved kindergarten teacher was found dead in her Dunbarton home, her family and friends continue to plead with investigators for answers.They remember Wendy Arnold Tefft as a strong-willed caretaker and a loving mother who would do...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A man convicted of helping kill a fellow Concord inmate in 2010 says a superior court judge restricted the defense’s cross-examination of key witnesses at trial and erred in not allowing the testimony of two others.William Edic, 34, has taken his case...

By ALLIE MORRIS

Executive Councilors and top state officials said they had no knowledge Dartmouth-Hitchcock planned to lay off hundreds of employees when they approved a $36.5 million contract with the provider this week to staff New Hampshire Hospital.“I am...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

“You knew she wanted to die and you intentionally helped her kill herself. She wasn’t terminal. She was depressed. She needed help to live, not to die,” said Jody Brissette as she faced the man who aided in her daughter’s suicide.Brissette told...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

The parents of a teenage sexual assault victim have agreed to identify themselves in a lawsuit against St. Paul’s School. Their daughter’s full name, however, will remain out of the lawsuit, concealed by her initials.Their decision comes after the...

By NICK REID

A Chichester animal rescue took in a pony Friday with severely overgrown hooves.Live and Let Live Farm Executive Director Teresa Paradis said the hooves – which are curved and appear to be several inches long – are a sign of years of neglect and cause...

The family of a Maine boy has sued the meat processing plant in Northern New Hampshire that processed 8,800 pounds of beef that was recalled after several people became ill with E. coli last month.Sarah Monks, who lives in York County, Maine, is...

By SARAH KINNEY

Upcycling – or updating something to a new purpose – is growing in popularity as a way for people to create stylish furniture and decor without the designer pricetag. The “farmhouse chic” trend has found ways to repurpose mason jars, old crates, cable...

By NICK REID

A team of Bigfoot enthusiasts, which has previously been involved in notorious hoaxes, is skulking in the New Hampshire woods, where residents say they’ve spotted the mythical creature.The California-based outfit, called Searching for Bigfoot, met...

By DAVID BROOKS

At least one loyal customer isn’t surprised that building and landscape supply store Corriveau-Routhier has shut its doors after 70 years.“It was a great source of supplies that we needed, had been great for a long time. But over the past maybe two...

By NICK REID

A SWAT team descended on a felon living in the Barnstead woods Thursday and arrested him, after police said he threatened the people on whose property he was staying. Paul Elijah Tasker Jr. “made a comment that he would harm any police officer that...

By NICK REID

When Pittsfield’s Eli English first got his hands on that 1930s Ford hot rod, he couldn’t help but want to know more about its history.With the help of the internet, he tracked down Buddy Hinman, the 80-year-old Rome, N.Y., man who first modified the...

By ELODIE REED

City police and a New Hampshire State Police SWAT team – complete with a BearCat – arrested six people in Franklin on Tuesday suspected of drug activity. Franklin police Chief David Goldstein said the arrests were a result of a monthslong “lengthy”...

By Megan Doyle

Four people were arrested on felony riot charges in Northfield on Friday night. The brawl began on the scene of a motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Park Street and Dearborn Road, according to a press release from the Northfield Police...