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By RAY DUCKLER

When it comes to homelessness, the city of Franklin is experiencing growing pains similar to what Concord once felt.And, more than anyone else, Desiree McLaughlin is absorbing the blows and shouting from the city’s rooftops, trying to draw attention...

By RAY DUCKLER

For years, filmmaker Kristen Vermilyea was sexually objectified because of her appearance, long before the Me Too Movement nudged the issue to the forefront of society.On Monday, the Bishop Brady High School graduate, now 49, will share her thoughts...

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 CAITLIN ANDREWS

An independent film that explores the night before the Challenger space shuttle explosion was released last week, three days before the 33rd anniversary of the tragedy.The Challenger Disaster, produced by Vertical Entertainment, follows the efforts of...

By TIM O’SULLIVAN

In some ways, Skylar Hattendorf wrestling for Bow High is perfectly normal. She has been wrestling against boys for years, so being on a male-dominated team like the one at Bow is nothing new for Hattendorf, a freshman. It’s also nothing new at Bow,...

By CAITLIN ANDREWS

A former student of the University of New Hampshire’s law school is suing the institution for more than $5 million, arguing that school officials denied him due process and prevented him from attending other schools.Joel Mateo of Boston, Mass., was a...

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...

By DAVID BROOKS

Early November snowfall has gotten plenty of folks looking forward to zooming down New Hampshire mountains on skis. But a surprising number of them are willing – even eager – to hike uphill in order to do it.“This is the fastest-growing segment of the...

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 ALLIE MORRIS

A New Hampshire Superior Court judge has sided with a family suing the state child protection agency in a ruling that could pave the way to making confidential abuse and neglect records open to the public.“The Court finds defendants’ interests in...

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

Spring skiing has great appeal, but a decade’s worth of data from the state medical examiner shows a possible other side: It might be the deadliest time to head downhill.Since 2007, the state office has rendered an official cause of death for 18...

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...

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 ALLIE MORRIS

Twenty-thousand dollars is a big pay raise. That’s how much Republican Gov. Chris Sununu is making over his predecessor, after he broke with the past practice of accepting reduced pay. Sununu is set to make $132,592.30 this year, the maximum allowed...

By ELLA NILSEN

When Dr. Jennifer Madden gets a new transgender patient at her practice, she pays close attention.“Most patients, whether they are seeing you for a sore throat or they’re uncomfortable with their gender, want a doctor willing to listen to them,”...

By ALLIE MORRIS

Mikayla Bourque guarded military outposts in Germany while serving in the U.S. Army. She rushed into burning buildings as an Allenstown firefighter and EMT. But these days, what makes Bourque most uncomfortable is walking into a public...