REGIONAL STORIES

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Senate Finance Chairman Lou D'Allesandro believes he has an answer for New Hampshire's economic woes -- legalizing video slots at six locations with the two largest on the border with Massachusetts.

BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts is looking for ways swap the gas nozzle for the electric plug.

STRATHAM, NH (AP) -- Police say a Maine man is in jail in New Hampshire on charges that he allegedly burglarized a home and made his getaway in a vehicle that he carjacked at gunpoint.

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) -- Nashua, N.H., police are looking for a suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of a motorist who reported he was shot while driving into the city.

MILTON, NH (NEWS CENTER) -- The New England Ice Racing Association will be holding its annual ice race on Sunday to benefit the Make a Wish Foundation.
BOSTON (AP) -- Bernard Lagat has shattered the American record in the indoor 5,000 meters at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games.
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) -- The Massachusetts National Guard is holding a welcome home ceremony this weekend for about 165 soldiers who have spent the past year in Iraq.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A judge gives a suspended sentence to the prosecution's key witness in a Springfield firebombing.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Family members of murder victims and a wrongly-accused man who spent 17 years on death row were among those urging New Hampshire lawmakers to repeal the state's death penalty law.

BOSTON (AP) -- A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says officials will aim to swear in Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown on Thursday afternoon.
BOSTON (AP) -- Coast Guard officials say they've developed a security plan to allow the safe passage of tankers carrying liquefied natural gas shipments from Yemen through the Port of Boston.

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) -- Two teenagers have been charged with using cleaners and other chemicals to create what New Hampshire law defines as an "infernal machine," in this case a crude, homemade bomb that exploded in a Nashua parking garage. No one was hurt.

FARMINGTON, Conn. (NBC) -- A Connecticut man says he documented Toyota's faulty accelerator pedal four years ago with his home video camera and was turned away when he showed the evidence to his local dealer.

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) -- A Lowell house struck by a lumber truck whose driver said he passed out after choking on chili will be demolished.
LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) -- A Leominster man faces a variety of charges after allegedly going to his girlfriend's workplace, slashing her throat, and cutting another woman who came to her aid.

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) -- University of New Hampshire scientists are getting more than $1.5 million to study how the human use of forests influences the climate.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire's Senate is holding a hearing Tuesday on capital murder legislation named after a Mont Vernon woman killed with a machete in her bed during a burglary.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen.-elect Scott Brown of Massachusetts says he opposes federal funding for abortions, but thinks women should have the right to choose whether to have one.
BOSTON (AP) -- A Framingham man accused of running a $29 million Ponzi scheme is facing a detention and probable-cause hearing.
BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick has announced that the federal stimulus package added close to 5,000 jobs in Massachusetts during the last three months of 2009.

OSSIPEE, N.H. (AP) -- A car and a truck broke through the ice on New Hampshire's Ossipee Lake in two separate accidents. Everyone inside the vehicles made it out safely.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) -- Oscar-nominated actress Anne Hathaway has received a good-natured ribbing from Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals student drama troupe.

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Catcher in the Rye" author J.D. Salinger has died at age 91 in New Hampshire.

STONEHAM, Mass. (AP) -- The father of Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan is being laid to rest.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire woman who contracted a rare form of anthrax at a drum circle gathering has improved and is able to answer questions from state health officials.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama plans to visit New Hampshire next week to sell policy proposals he's including in Wednesday's State of the Union address.
BOSTON (AP) -- The family of a Massachusetts man who died in police custody after being stopped at a sobriety checkpoint filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, alleging that police beat him to death.