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He called himself Ace, and he came looking for young vulnerable girls that he could sell for sex.He rode into Haverhill, Mass., in a shiny black Lincoln Continental, with red interior. Into a poor neighborhood with three-story tenements and peeling...

By RAY DUCKLER

A murder 52 years ago in Andover that turned cold only months after it had been committed has been solved, the Attorney General’s Office announced Wednesday.Investigators in the state’s Cold Case Unit, who reopened the case in 2013, determined that...

By RAY DUCKLER

The videos on mom’s laptop are a good way to introduce her two daughters.In one, the sisters are in black cowboy hats and boots, two-stepping to a country tune at the Capitol Center for the Arts. The other shows them dancing in Portsmouth wearing...

By RAY DUCKLER

The Kimball Castle in Gilford, a piece of history overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee that has stood vacant and crumbling for nearly 60 years, was sold to the owners of a local realty company, according to an internet post by the buyer.Patrick Starkey, who...

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At the Pumpkin Seed Bridge – a relic with a rich history and an uncertain future that spans the Pemigewasset River – a few seconds can seem like a long time.Jump from the bridge itself, a 103-foot drop, and three seconds take on a new meaning. Videos...

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Diane greeted her guests with a pullup, peeking over the edge on top of her 60-gallon home, hoping Jim Tonner had brought her a snack.And he had. Tonner, who co-owns TwinDesigns Gift Shop with his twin brother, Brad Tonner, gave a strawberry to the...

By RAY DUCKLER

Rest in pieces, Old Man.That’s what I was told Thursday, which marked the 15th anniversary of the day the Old Man of the Mountain crumbled during an early-morning fog.Not out of disrespect. Quite the contrary, this opinion grew out of love and respect...

By RAY DUCKLER

To this day, Tom Ryan can’t explain it, and don’t expect him to try during his appearance Thursday night at Red River Theatres.There, starting at 7, he’ll talk about Following Atticus, the latest selection for Concord Reads – a citywide literary...

By RAY DUCKLER

The rope is behind glass, in a rectangular wooden box, and it leaves no room for interpretation.It signals death, end of story.A rope will do that – invade your mind with darkness – when tied into a noose. This one is on a back wall at the...

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So who the heck was Franklin Pierce? I tried to find out, thinking Monday – Presidents Day – was a good time to try. Turns out, one of the most important people in the state’s history featured more gray area than a giant storm cloud.Pierce was the...

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Penny Pitou, famous for winning two Olympic silver medals and booking European ski tours, says it’s okay to call her attractive.In fact, she likes it, as long as you include the part about skiing, too.Both defined her in 1960, when the woman behind...

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The big white farmhouse on Mountain Road, near Sanborn and Sewalls Falls roads, is gone, razed to make room for new homes and families.It stood lonely for years, with a blank expression of chipping paint and rotting wood that, to passing drivers,...

By RAY DUCKLER

In Kath Barbadoro’s world, a world of laughter, things haven’t seemed very funny lately.That’s because Louis C.K., the famous comedian who was exposed for exposing himself to women, held up a mirror to male society, forcing it to acknowledge the...

By RAY DUCKLER

Brendon McGahan, the president of Concord Little League, said he wasn’t surprised by what happened Friday in Bristol, Conn.He’d already seen Jeff O’Connell’s voracious appetite for winning. Just a couple of weeks ago, in fact, during the Little League...

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Buzz Gagne likes to poke fun at himself.I discovered that he doesn’t deserve it.He says he’s round, shrinking, achy and old, but the record book shows he’s dynamite with a javelin, throwing it farther than anyone else ever has for his age bracket – 70...

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Herbie’s backers loved him, struck by his humble start and bare-knuckled fight for government transparency, and his penchant to help the poor and elderly in a city that sometimes ignored them.To others, though, he was a monkey wrench, a troublemaker,...

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The bronze image of John Winant, unveiled Friday at the State Library, stayed covered and unseen through most of the ceremony.Just like the memory of the man himself. But eventually the black cloth came off, removed by a pair of family members and the...

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We walked through two glass doors, unlocked by a gentle, soft-spoken man with a trimmed white beard. Leave your coffee behind, Wes Balla, the director of exhibitions at the New Hampshire Historical Society, told me. No use taking chances. No use...

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The snow is frozen, making each step sound like you’re eating crunchy breakfast cereal.There’s a slight downward slope through brush and trees, so we’re cautious as we move to the spots where a pair of barrels were found years ago, barrels mixed with...

By RAY DUCKLER

For a brief period, the buttoned-up attorney general didn’t sound buttoned up.Not this time. Not when talking about Bob Evans, or Lawrence William Vanner, or whatever the guy’s name was, the guy who killed four females in the 1980s and then dumped...