REGIONAL STORIES
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- A judge in Worcester is deciding whether to remove from life support a 7-year-old boy who prosecutors said was severely beaten on Father's Day after coming to Massachusetts to spend the summer with his father.
LYNN, Mass. (AP) -- Two more teenagers are facing charges in connection with a deadly crash in Saugus last month that took the life of a 67-year-old woman out walking her dog.
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Police have charged a New Durham, N.H., man with using a computer to solicit a 14-year-old girl for sex.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- A former co-owner of a Rhode Island nightclub where a fire killed 100 people has been released early from prison for good behavior.
BOSTON (AP) -- Private contractors can't drive on the airfield at Logan International Airport without an escort under new rules created after a construction truck crossed a runway seconds before an airplane took off.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) -- An amusement ride company has been indicted in connection with the 2005 death of a Saugus woman who fell from an inflatable climbing wall.
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire author Jodi Picoult says having her novel "My Sister's Keeper" turned into a movie was like giving up a baby for adoption.
BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick is promising to sign a 25 percent increase in the state sales tax now that lawmakers have delivered on three reform measures.
NORTHWOOD, N.H. (AP) -- State emergency management officials have been dispatched to Northwood, N.H., after a thunderstorm and high winds knocked out power and damaged homes along 16 streets.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Police said 14 photographs worth $42,000 have been stolen from an exhibit at the Kimball-Jenkins Estate in Concord, N.H.
SALEM, N.H. (AP) -- Gov. John Lynch has ordered flags to be lowered to half-staff to honor U.S. Army Sgt. Edmond Lo, who was killed in Iraq earlier this month.
HAMPTON, N.H. (AP) -- Drivers going through Hampton, N.H., on Interstate 95 should bring some extra change starting next week.
BOSTON (AP) -- With summer here, Massachusetts health officials have begun urging residents to take steps to avoid mosquito bites and help prevent West Nile Virus and eastern equine encephalitis.
DOVER, N.H. (AP) -- Rainy weather has fueled bacterial growth in some lakes and ponds, but the state says New Hampshire waters remain among the nation's clearest.
LACONIA, N.H. (AP) -- There are just 18 inmates and a dozen employees left at the Laconia prison, which will close on Tuesday as part of New Hampshire's efforts to cut correction costs.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A Springfield Fire Department spokesman says a blaze that killed a city teenager and his 4-year-old brother began in an electrical box in the basement of their home.
NASHUA, NH (AP) -- Police say an 18-year-old man has stolen $7,500 from two elderly Nashua, NH, residents, deceiving them with a driveway paving scam.
HANOVER, MA (AP) -- Prosecutors say a man lured a 6-year-old girl to an apartment, restrained her and injected her with an unknown substance intending to rape her before freeing her and slashing his own wrist.
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) -- A judge says a former University of Vermont fraternity president who helped run a cocaine ring won't have to go to prison.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Gov. John Lynch signed an $11.5 billion budget Tuesday that could result in up to 950 New Hampshire workers being laid off if it isn't replaced with a furlough plan costing workers more than a month's pay over the two-year budget.
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- Bail has been revoked for a Massachusetts man charged with murder in the fatal beating of his 7-year-old son on Father's Day.
HUDSON, NH (AP) -- Police in Hudson, N.H., say a man went through the drive-by window at a McDonald's restaurant and took off with a charity donation box.
CONWAY, NH (AP) -- Three men who were gunned down during a botched robbery in a Conway, N.H., store two years ago are being remembered.
CONCORD, NH (AP) -- Health groups see a silver lining in one of New Hampshire's new tax increases.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Residents in Concord, N.H., are scrambling for special purple trash bags needed for a "Pay-as-you-throw" program starting Monday.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- A Springfield police officer convicted of stealing $2,000 during a traffic stop is set for sentencing.
KEENE, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire plant health specialist said late blight, a fungal disease that primarily affects tomatoes and potatoes, has shown up early this season and that some infected plants have shown up in stores.
BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick is preparing to seek legislative approval to take over failing schools and waive parts of teacher contracts considered as undermining efforts to improve performance.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Residents in Concord, N.H., are scrambling for special purple trash bags needed for a "Pay-as-you-throw" program starting Monday.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Federal stimulus money is being used to cut diesel emissions on the water and in a railroad yard in four New England States.
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