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KINGSTONStates digging deep to monitor water
About a quarter mile into dense woods, geologists watch as a drilling rig twists a shaft deep into the granite bedrock of southeastern New Hampshire. They are searching for water - not to drink - but to watch.State and federal agencies have been watching, or monitoring, lakes and rivers for more than a century, but less attention has gone to vast amounts of water in cracks and rock fissures deep underground, leaving a void in understanding a resource growing in importance as demands for water increase and surface water sources are being used to the fullest in many areas.
CONCORDPlant disease hits eastern US veggies early, hard
Tomato plants have been removed from stores in half a dozen states as a destructive and infectious plant disease makes its earliest and most widespread appearance ever in the eastern United States.Late blight - the same disease that caused the Irish Potato Famine in the 1840s - occurs sporadically in the Northeast, but this year's outbreak is more severe for two reasons: infected plants have been widely distributed by big-box retail stores and rainy weather has hastened the spores' airborne spread.
CONCORDMost of NH doc's crematory convictions overturned
New Hampshire's Supreme Court reversed most of the convictions against a former Massachusetts medical examiner accused of taking part in a crematory scam.Putnam Breed was sentenced to six months in jail in 2007. Prosecutors said Breed received money for signing off on cremations at the Bayview Crematory in Seabrook without inspecting the bodies.
MANCHESTERNH city rallies around refugees to banish bedbugs
After all the officials took turns explaining a plan to end a bedbug infestation in an apartment building where mostly refugees live, Michel Ndayavugwi simply pointed to the young boy dozing in a chair in the back of the room."He's sleeping because last night, he didn't sleep," Ndayavugwi said through an interpreter. "What can we do? Please, find for us good apartments and good housing ... so that our children will not sleep in the classroom."
CONCORDVideo of weapons-filled home shown at NH trial
Jurors in the trial of a tax-evading New Hampshire couple viewed video Wednesday of a vast arsenal that prosecutors say they stockpiled inside their turreted mountaintop home, including an improvised bomb on a kitchen shelf, next to the cookie jar.Edward and Elaine Brown are accused of blockading themselves in their Plainfield home during a nine-month standoff with law enforcement in 2007 and amassing the weapons after being convicted of federal tax evasion.
CONWAY3 victims of NH shooting remembered
Three men who were gunned down during a botched robbery in a Conway, N.H., store two years ago are being remembered.A granite memorial bench donated by the store owners is being dedicated to them Thursday.
CONCORDTrial begins in NH weapons and conspiracy case
A retired exterminator and his dentist wife held hands and talked in court Tuesday as a prosecutor called them dangerous anti-government radicals and their lawyers said it was reasonable for them to fear for their lives.Ed and Elaine Brown face minimum 30-year prison sentences if convicted of federal weapons and conspiracy charges stemming from a nine-month standoff with law enforcement at their Plainfield home in 2007. Prosecutors say the mountaintop concrete castle was protected by an arsenal of homemade bombs, booby traps and semiautomatic assault-type rifles intended to kill anyone trying to arrest them.
MANCHESTERGreyhound racing in NH to end
Greyhound racing in New Hampshire is about to become history.The state's two remaining tracks - in Seabrook and Belmont - won permission Monday to drop live racing, the New Hampshire Union Leader reports.
LOUDONRain helps teenager Logano get first Cup win
Joey Logano isn't apologizing for getting a lucky win.Especially when it's his first one - and it made him the youngest winner in the history of the Sprint Cup series.
LOUDONRain give teenager Logano first Cup win
Teenager Joey Logano became the youngest winner in the history of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Sunday, winning the rain-shortened race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.The precocious 19-year-old rookie came back from a crash that put him a lap down earlier in the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 and won his first Cup race in his 20th start.
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