REGIONAL STORIES

WELLFLEET, Mass. (AP) -- Rescue teams have reached another of the white-sided dolphins that became stuck in the mud off Cape Cod.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg will serve as one of three Republicans on the President's National Commission on Fiscal Responsbility and Reform.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- A passenger jet bound for Charlotte, N.C., has made an emergency landing at an upstate New York airport after the pilot reported a bird strike shortly after takeoff.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo has recused himself in the investigation of whether Gov. David Paterson interfered with a domestic violence case involving a top aide.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- A former Portsmouth man is facing charges he stalked a city police officer by sending the officer "lewd, racially and sexually charged packages."

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) -- Springfield police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a stabbing death in Pittsfield.

SALEM, N.H. (AP) -- The age of live horse racing at New Hampshire's Rockingham Park is over.

EVERETT, Mass. (AP) -- Authorities say an 80-year-old woman died and her 76-year-old brother was critically injured in a two-alarm fire at their Everett home that was likely started by careless disposal of a cigarette.

DENNIS, Mass. (NBC) -- A 74-year-old woman is recovering at a hospital after she was dragged through a car wash in Dennis, Massachusetts.
DUBLIN, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire woman who was known as Granny D and walked across the country a decade ago to publicize the need for campaign finance reform has died. She was 100.

GROTON, Conn. (AP) -- A 49-year-old Connecticut man accused of killing a woman and stuffing her body in a freezer has been arraigned on a murder charge.

BOSTON, Mass. (AP) -- Meals tax bringing in more revenue than expected.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- State lawmakers are considering banning smoking at New Hampshire beaches.

LACONIA, N.H. (AP) -- Jurors to hear whether alcohol and negligence caused a boat crash that left one woman dead and two others seriously injured.

BOSTON (AP) -- Two civic groups are banding together to make sure there's a full count of Boston-area Asians in this year's federal census.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) -- Police in Portsmouth, N.H., are praising a Massachusetts man as a hero for stopping another man from jumping off the Interstate 95 bridge.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- New Hampshire's House is considering repealing a 9 percent tax on campsites that took effect last July.

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) -- A federal agency investigating a power plant explosion in Connecticut that killed six workers last month are looking into whether fatigue played a role.

BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts schools would be required to take a tougher stand against classroom bullies under a bill set to be debated by the state Senate next week.

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) -- A New Hampshire high school English teacher is facing a charge she sent nude photos of herself to a 15-year-old male student at Londonderry High School.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The New Hampshire Attorney General's office is warning residents to be wary of people offering to clean up or make repairs following last week's wind storm.

BARRINGTON, N.H. (AP) -- The state fire marshal says the fire that destroyed a University of New Hampshire boathouse in Barrington was arson.
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- The top spokesman for New York Gov. David Paterson is resigning and says he can't in good conscience continue to serve.

BOSTON (AP) -- The Massachusetts House has voted overwhelmingly to ban the surgical "debarking" or silencing of dogs or cats.

BOSTON (AP) -- House Speaker Robert DeLeo has proposed allowing two casinos to operate in Massachusetts and "a limited number" of slot machines at the state's four dog and horse tracks.

BOSTON (AP) -- The inspector general for the U.S. Department of Commerce says the nation's top fishery law enforcement officer destroyed documents while his office was under investigation.

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) -- The head of law enforcement for the nation's fisheries was on the hot seat as a congressional panel met in Massachusetts to discuss a scathing inspector general's report.

CHELSEA, Vt. (AP) -- The Vermont State Police says two Augusta, Maine, residents are in custody after they were apprehended with property stolen from the Chelsea school.

TORRINGTON, Conn. (NBC) -- Students download this -- your iPod may soon be put on permanent mute.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- The lights are back on for many of the million-plus customers in the Northeast affected by a storm last week that dealt the region snow, rain and hurricane-force winds.