At 18 months, Cristina Astacio spoke only a few words, wouldn’t respond to her name and shunned other kids in her day care group. Last October, her worried parents found out why . . .
2012
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Vt. school remembers slain teacher
About 2,000 people gathered today to celebrate the life of a popular Vermont prep school teacher who police say was lured from her home, beaten and strangled to death.
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JetBlue says crew won’t talk about incident
A JetBlue plane had to make an emergency landing in Texas because of the strange and frightening behavior of its pilot
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Portsmouth man accused of abuse crimes dating back to ’70s
Police arrested 81-year-old Souran Manoguian for rape and incest charges dating back to the early 1970s.
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Amazon CEO wants to raise sunken Apollo 11 engines
For 43 years, the engines that helped boost Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins to the moon have rested in the Atlantic. Now an Internet billionaire wants to raise them.
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NH lottery sales at 27,000 transactions/hour
New Hampshire lottery officials say MegaMillions fever is driving lottery sales in the state to 27,000 transactions an hour.
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Museum exhibits forger’s work for April Fools
Fool me once, the saying goes. But 50 times? That’s what a convincing art forger did for nearly three decades when he donated his copies of Picassos and other works of art to unsuspecting museums in 20 states.
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Maine mother angry at light sex-assault sentence
A 28-year-old Bangor man gets 2 months in jail for having a sexual relationship with the woman’s daughter, who was then 15.
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Oxford Casino installs first video slot machines
The first of more than 500 video-screen machines were installed in the casino on Thursday and a spokesman says the goal is to open the casino in June.
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Whole Foods to stop sale of unsustainable seafood
The natural and organic supermarket chain says it will no longer carry wild-caught seafood that is either overfished or caught in a way that harms other species.