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Published
September 11, 2024

Harvard’s Black enrollment drops after Supreme Court ruling

Last year’s ruling overturned decades of legal precedent and forced the country’s most selective colleges to change the ways they evaluate applicants.
Published
September 9, 2024

Shark biologists stumble into a deep-sea murder mystery

Porbeagle sharks aren’t known to have predators, but a new study says it recorded the first instance of the species being preyed upon by another massive shark.
Published
September 9, 2024

New Hampshire governor helps save man choking on lobster roll at eating contest

A man says he's grateful New Hampshire’s governor came to his aid when he started choking during a lobster roll eating contest.
Published
September 8, 2024

Cowabunga! Dover celebrates being birthplace of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

It wasn't the New York City sewers, where the Turtles mutated from regular reptiles into a crime-fighting quartet who battled foes with nunchucks, snark and pizza. Rather, it was a small city near the New Hampshire coast.
Published
September 4, 2024

Harris touts small-business agenda in New Hampshire as debate nears

Vice President Kamala Harris aims an appeal at moderate and Republican voters who may be turned off by Donald Trump.

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Published
September 1, 2024

Facing natural disasters, more state lawmakers look to make oil companies pay for the damage

Vermont is leading the way with a new law. Other states could be close behind.
Published
August 27, 2024

New Hampshire resident dies after testing positive for mosquito-borne encephalitis virus

The Hampstead resident's EEE infection was the first in New Hampshire in a decade. Maine's CDC has also warned of the presence of EEE and West Nile viruses in animals.
Published
August 25, 2024

Deadly mosquito virus has Massachusetts towns urging people to stay in at night

The spread is rare, but serious: about 30% of people with the virus die, and many survivors have ongoing neurological problems.
Published
August 23, 2024

Judge declines to dismiss murder case against Karen Read after July mistrial

A Massachusetts judge has ruled that Karen Read can be re-tried for murder and leaving the scene where her Boston police officer boyfriend died.
Published
August 21, 2024

Defense attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber seek recusal of judge overseeing case

Attorneys for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev claim the U.S. District judge overseeing the bomber's death sentence legal battle, made public comments on the case during the appeals process.