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By LOLA DUFFORT

A Concord man who once served as the queen of England’s personal piper was remembered by loved ones Wednesday for his mischievous sense of humor, distinguished military career and love of Scottish music.The service for Pipe Major Gordon Webster at St....

By ALYSSA DANDREA

Eighty-eight local, state and federal law enforcement agencies executed one of the largest ever drug sweeps Thursday in the Granite State that resulted in 151 arrests, the seizure of more than 551 grams of heroin and fentanyl, $37,251 in cash and 24...

By ALYSSA DANDREA

A mother began serving a 90-day jail sentence Tuesday for exposing her two children to methamphetamine in Penacook in summer 2016, resulting in the death of her 2-month-old son.Kayla Austin, 21, of Penacook pleaded guilty to two counts of endangering...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

In the bright light of a new year, you might be tempted to make a resolution or two.There’s the classics, like writing more or calling your mother more often, and getting back to the gym. You’ll soon have a new place in Concord to try out that last...

By RAY DUCKLER

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 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 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

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 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...

By NICK REID

Seven people were arrested and charged with drug crimes Thursday at a suspected Concord drug den where a person recently died of an overdose.Concord police and a special operations unit searched the 52 Concord St. apartment in the early morning hours...

By RAY DUCKLER

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,...

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 RAY DUCKLER

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...

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 NICK REID

Concord police joined with a regional special operations unit and the state police SWAT team to raid two separate apartments about 4 a.m. Thursday.Between those drug busts and other efforts over the past two days, 10 people were arrested on charges...

A Wednesday raid on a Concord apartment building resulted in nine arrests of people now facing drug-related charges.Members of the Concord Police Department’s drug enforcement unit and patrol division descended upon 12 East Side Drive, Building 2, in...

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 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...