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By HOLLY RAMER, MICHAEL CASEY and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY

A voter in Milford, New Hampshire, missed out on approving the town’s $19 million operating budget, electing a cemetery trustee and buying a new dump truck. In Durham, an 18-year-old high school student did not get a say in who should serve on the school board or whether $125,000 should go toward replacing artificial turf on athletic fields.

By HOLLY RAMER and AMANDA SWINHART

JACKSON, N.H. — A skier since age 4, Thomas Brennick now enjoys regular trips to New Hampshire’s Black Mountain with his two grandchildren.

By WAFAA SHURAFA

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — The Israeli military on Monday issued sweeping evacuation orders covering most of Rafah, indicating it could soon launch another major ground operation in the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip.

By HOLLY RAMER

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office has agreed to a $10 million settlement in the case of a man who alleged that he was gang-raped in a stairwell at the state’s youth detention center in the 1990s.

By HOLLY RAMER

CONCORD, N.H. — Robert Seaman, the New Hampshire artist who brightened dark days by creating intricate and imaginative “daily doodles” during the COVID-19 pandemic and then kept at it for nearly five years, has died. He was 92.

By KATHY McCORMACK

A First Amendment dispute over a bright painting that shows sunbeams shining down on a mountain range made of sprinkle-covered chocolate and strawberry doughnuts, a blueberry muffin, a cinnamon roll and other pastries is headed to trial.

By KATHY McCORMACK and MICHAEL CASEY

The two friends had hiked New Hampshire’s challenging Mount Washington trail a month ago. They returned and did it again Sunday after trekking through neighboring peaks in the White Mountains. Both veteran hikers, the women were an hour behind schedule on their descent and losing daylight, but they had warm clothing, headlamps and other gear.

By CHRIS NELSEN

Guerrero plans to become free agent after season, fails to reach long-term deal with Blue Jays

By CHRIS MEGERIAN and DARLENE SUPERVILLE

New Hampshire native Karoline Leavitt made her debut as White House press secretary on Tuesday and promised to speak frequently with the news media and open up the briefing room to podcasters and social media influencers.

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD, N.H. — A former leader at a New Hampshire youth detention center who was convicted of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998 was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison.

By HOLLY RAMER

The FBI said Friday that it arrested a Washington state woman in the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent during a traffic stop in Vermont earlier this week.

By HOLLY RAMER

A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors deadlocked on whether a former worker at New Hampshire’s youth detention center raped a 14-year-old boy in 1998, but the defendant still faces 15 other charges in separate cases.

By KATHY McCORMACK and PATRICK WHITTLE

A U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks, his family said.

By KATHY McCORMACK and PATRICK WHITTLE

Authorities on Tuesday are investigating a fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent that also left a suspect dead and another injured on a Vermont highway near Canada, authorities said.

By HOLLY RAMER

Marin Plank truly had no interest in birds when she gave her husband a camera-equipped bird feeder for his birthday. But by Christmas, she had become so obsessed with birds that most of the gifts she received this year — books, stickers, notecards — were related.

By KATHY McCORMACK

CONCORD, N.H. — New Hampshire’s highest court on Friday upheld a judge’s dismissal of civil rights complaints against a white nationalist group that prosecutors say trespassed when it displayed without a permit “Keep New England White” banners from an overpass in 2022.

By JAIMIE DING, CHRISTOPHER WEBER and JULIE WATSON

LOS ANGELES — Multiple massive wildfires tore across the Los Angeles area with devastating force Wednesday, destroying more than 1,000 structures and killing at least two people as desperate residents escaped through flames, ferocious winds and...

By AMANDA SEITZ

Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labeled on drinks Americans consume, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday. Murthy’s advisory comes as research and evidence mounts about the bad effects that alcohol...

By NICK PERRY

MEREDITH — A Massachusetts couple and their two daughters were identified by authorities Friday as the victims of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning after they were found dead at their lake house in New Hampshire on Christmas Day.Matthew Goldstein,...

By ZEKE MILLER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and COLLEEN LONG

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden pardoned his son, Hunter, sparing the younger Biden a possible prison sentence for federal felony gun and tax convictions and reversing his past promises not to use the extraordinary powers of the presidency for the...

By NICK PERRY

MANCHESTER, N.H. — A New Hampshire jury on Tuesday found a former leader at a youth detention center guilty of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998.Bradley Asbury, now 70, was found guilty on two counts of being an accomplice to aggravated...