CONCORD, N. H. ( AP) — New Hampshire lawmakers are deciding whether to suspend the state’s death penalty rather than repeal it outright. The Senate is expected to vote today on a bill sponsored by Republican Sen. Kevin Avard of Nashua. The measure would suspend use of the death penalty until “ methods exist to […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Fire officials say a box truck crashed in Manchester, spilling fuel into the Merrimack River. WMUR-TV reports it happened on Wednesday afternoon. The truck was headed south on Interstate 293 near exit 6 when the driver lost control, drove over the median and guardrail and ruptured his tank. Fire District Chief […]

BOSTON ( AP) — Sen. Elizabeth Warren is pushing legislation designed to increase funding for medical research. The Massachusetts Democrat says the bill would funnel an additional $5 billion in research funding each year into the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration. Warren says the money would be targeted at a […]

BOSTON (AP) — A move to raise the minimum age for purchasing cigarettes and other tobacco products across Massachusetts may be gathering steam on Beacon Hill. The Legislature’s Public Health Committee today is expected to unveil a bill aimed at curbing tobacco use by young people. The panel’s co-chair, Democratic Sen. Jason Lewis, of Winchester, […]

WASHINGTON Former Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney charged into the increasingly divisive 2016 GOP White House sweepstakes today with a harsh take down of front-runner Donald Trump, calling him a “phony” and exhorting fellow Republicans to shun him for the good of the country and party. “His promises are as worthless as a degree from […]

FORT COLLINS, Colo. Standing in a line of thousands outside an arena at Colorado State University, Aleksandr Cronk contemplated the grim possibility that the man he was waiting to see, Bernie Sanders, may not make it to the November ballot and he’d have to decide whether to vote for Hillary Clinton. Like millions of young […]

KANSAS CITY, MO. Sri Srinivasan, a federal appeals judge who was born in India and grew up in Kansas, would be the first foreign-born justice to serve on the Supreme Court in more than 50 years. The 49-year-old Srinivasan is one of several people being mentioned prominently as a potential replacement for Justice Antonin Scalia, […]

BELGRADE, Serbia Tensions simmered one night inside the smoky Belgrade City cafe in a rough neighborhood near the train station. The price of a human being was being decided. Dozens of young Middle Eastern and African men dressed in track suits and woolen caps were frantically negotiating with a Serbian smuggler on the costs of […]

MAPUTO, Mozambique An American who discovered an aircraft part in Mozambique that may be from missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 said today that he initially thought it was from a much smaller plane. Blaine Gibson, who has been searching the region’s beaches for the debris, said in an interview with The Associated Press that a […]

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A new study says that half of women in Alaska say they have experienced intimate partner violence, sexual violence or both. KTUU-TV reports that the study from the University of Alaska Anchorage Justice Center shows that 50 percent of women in 2015 reported having been subject to threats of physical violence […]