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Senator renews push for video slots in NH

Senator renews push for video slots in NH

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.

Mass. unveiling plans to expand electric car use

Mass. unveiling plans to expand electric car use

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

NH police arrest suspected carjacker

NH police arrest suspected carjacker

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.

NH: Police investigate roadway shooting

NH: Police investigate roadway shooting

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.

Annual ice race this weekend to benefit the Make A Wish foundation

Annual ice race this weekend to benefit the Make A Wish foundation

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.

Track record falls in Boston

BOSTON (AP) -- Bernard Lagat has shattered the American record in the indoor 5,000 meters at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games.

Guard unit back from Iraq

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.

Firebomber won't go to prison

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A judge gives a suspended sentence to the prosecution's key witness in a Springfield firebombing.

NH death penalty commission gets to work

NH death penalty commission gets to work

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.

Democrats aim to swear in Brown on Thursday

Democrats aim to swear in Brown on Thursday

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.

Coast Guard OKs Yemen gas deliveries to Boston

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.

NH: 2 teens accused of making

NH: 2 teens accused of making "infernal machine"

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.

Stuck Toyota throttle caught on four-year-old video

Stuck Toyota throttle caught on four-year-old video

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.

Mass. house struck by truck to be torn down

Mass. house struck by truck to be torn down

LOWELL, Mass. (AP) -- A Lowell house struck by a lumber truck whose driver said he passed out after choking on chili will be demolished.

MA: Man charged with violent workplace attack

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.

UNH gets $1.5 million to study how forest use influences climate

UNH gets $1.5 million to study how forest use influences climate

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.

NH Senate to hear bill to make home invasion capital offense

NH Senate to hear bill to make home invasion capital offense

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.

Sen.-elect Brown says he supports abortion rights

Sen.-elect Brown says he supports abortion rights

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.

Ponzi scam in Massachusetts

BOSTON (AP) -- A Framingham man accused of running a $29 million Ponzi scheme is facing a detention and probable-cause hearing.

Massachusetts claims jobs from stimulus

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.

Vehicles break through weak ice

Vehicles break through weak ice

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.

Anne Hathaway gets her pudding pot at Harvard

Anne Hathaway gets her pudding pot at Harvard

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

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

'Catcher in the Rye' author J.D. Salinger dies

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

Nancy Kerrigan's father laid to rest in Mass.

Nancy Kerrigan's father laid to rest in Mass.

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

NH anthrax patient improves, cleanup to begin

NH anthrax patient improves, cleanup to begin

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.

Obama heads to NH next week

Obama heads to NH next week

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.

Family of Mass. man who died in custody sues

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.

 
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