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The latest flooding in Vermont has added fresh urgency to concerns about the hundreds of dams in the state, a third of which are more than a century old.This week’s deluge from the remnants of Hurricane Beryl wasn’t as bad for the hundreds of dams...

By MICHAEL CASEY

An owner of a now defunct trucking company agreed to plead guilty Tuesday to federal charges related to a deadly crash in New Hampshire that killed seven motorcyclists. Dunyadar Gasanov, 39, pled guilty in Springfield, Massachusetts to three counts of...

By MICHAEL CASEY

Jurors in the trial of Karen Read unanimously concluded she was not guilty of murder or of leaving the scene of a deadly accident, and were deadlocked on only the remaining manslaughter charge before the judge abruptly declared a mistrial, her defense...

By MICHAEL CASEY

A judge declared a mistrial Monday after jurors deadlocked in the case of Karen Read, a woman accused of killing her Boston police officer boyfriend by striking him with her SUV and leaving him in a snowstorm, a case that drew outsize attention thanks...

By MICHAEL CASEY

DEDHAM, Mass. — The fate of Karen Read is in the hands of jurors who must decide whether she ended a rocky romance by fatally striking her boyfriend with her SUV after a night of heavy drinking or is a victim of a law enforcement cover-up aimed at...

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Relatives and friends of seven motorcyclists who died in a 2019 crash urged New Hampshire officials Wednesday not to allow the trucker back on the state’s roadways.A jury in 2022 found Volodymyr Zhukovskyy not guilty of multiple manslaughter and...

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Tucked away inside the teachers lounge at Christa McAuliffe School in Concord, Amber Warner was having her teeth checked out for the first time.The 5-year-old sat back on what looked like a beach chair and wore a pair of dark sunglasses as certified...

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON — Two current and two former Massachusetts State Police troopers were among six people charged Tuesday in a scheme to allegedly take bribes including a new snowblower and driveway in exchange for giving passing scores on commercial driving...

By MICHAEL CASEY

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A few years back, Sage Brook Carbone was attending a powwow at the Mashantucket Western Pequot reservation in Connecticut when she noticed signs in the Pequot language.Carbone, a citizen of the Northern Narragansett Indian Tribe of...

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON — As authorities in Vermont push forward with their investigation of the weekend shooting of three college students of Palestinian descent, they are weighing whether to treat the violence as a hate crime.The three young men were shot and...

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A New Hampshire father proclaimed his innocence in the murder of Harmony Montgomery, his 5-year-old daughter who vanished in 2019 after he was awarded custody and is presumed dead.Adam Montgomery, 33, spoke before being sentenced Monday on unrelated...

By MICHAEL CASEY

NASHUA — The conversation around racial integration in baseball often revolves around Jackie Robinson, who broke the major league color barrier in 1947 with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But a year earlier, history was being made in the city of Nashua. It was...

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BOSTON — As a citizen of the Quapaw Nation, Ahnili Johnson-Jennings has always seen Dartmouth College as the university for Native American students.Her father graduated from the school, founded in 1769 to educate Native Americans, and she had come to...

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON (AP) — The chair of the U.S. Senate subcommittee on emerging national security threats said at a hearing Wednesday that much has been learned about enhancing emergency response and counterterrorism efforts in the decade since the Boston...

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON — With a bagpiper playing “The Bells of Dunblane” and a few runners looking on, families of those killed in the Boston Marathon bombing marked the 10th anniversary of the tragedy early Saturday by slowly walking together to the memorial sites...

By MICHAEL CASEY

BOSTON — RJ Phipps was hiking up Tuckerman Ravine on Mount Washington over the weekend with his wife when he took out his camera to shoot a snowboarder and skier.Within seconds, Phipps watched as the two men were nearly engulfed by an avalanche. He...

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 MICHAEL CASEY

Al Davis Jr. cracks a smile as he spots a speck of gold glittering in a plastic pan full of muck pulled from a Vermont brook, revealing a gold tooth made from some earlier finds.Davis, decked in waders and wearing a hat festooned with a tiny bottle...