CONCORD, N.H. A trio of bills aimed at protecting New Hampshire’s abused and neglected children got a favorable reception from a Senate committee on Tuesday, though the chairman questioned whether one measure would give police and state workers too much access to sensitive information. The Health and Human Services Committee held public hearings on bills […]

CONCORD, N.H. New Hampshire will begin using a service that will keep crime victims aware of an offender’s status via text messages, emails and phone calls. Victim advocates will be registering crime victims, who will then maintain a profile to update their notification preferences and contact information. Currently, victims are notified about an offender’s case […]

RANDOLPH, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say a New York hiker whose frozen body was found on the Castle Ravine Trail between two mountains in Randolph died of hypothermia. WMUR-TV reports the state Chief Medical Examiner conducted the autopsy Tuesday for 54-year-old Timothy Hallock of Orient, New York. Toxicology results are […]

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A West Springfield woman who pleaded guilty to charges in connection with a crash that killed a 7-year-old girl in 2014 is headed to prison. The Republican newspaper reports 49- year-old Sandra Zemtsova was sentenced last week in Springfield to four years behind bars after pleading guilty to motor vehicle homicide […]

AUGUSTA (AP) — A bill that would let prosecutors seek felony charges in possession cases involving heroin, methamphetamine, fentanyl and more than 14 grams of cocaine is gaining support. The Portland Press Herald reports that members of the Maine Legislature’s Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee voted 8-4 Monday in Augusta in favor of the […]

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Maine man has pleaded guilty to multiple armed bank robberies including the botched robbery of a Connecticut credit union during which he strapped a bank executive with a fake bomb. Forty-five-year-old Brian Witham, of Waterville, Maine, appeared Tuesday in federal court in Knoxville. The Hartford Courant reports Witham and another […]

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Astronaut Scott Kelly returned to Earth today after an unprecedented year in space for NASA, landing in barren Kazakhstan with a Russian cosmonaut who shared his whole space station journey. Their Soyuz capsule parachuted onto the central Asian steppes and ended a science rich mission at the International Space Station that began […]

MADISON TOWNSHIP, Ohio (AP) — Classes are resuming in a southwest Ohio school district, two days after authorities say a 14-year-old boy shot students in a school cafeteria. Madison Local Schools officials say staff members will ride on buses this morning and be outside the school complex to welcome students back. Some 1,600 students from […]