KATHY McCORMACK

In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., March 25, 2025. (AP Photo)
Judge in Vermont considers whether he has jurisdiction of detained Tufts University student’s case
A federal judge in Vermont who’s considering whether he has jurisdiction over the case of a Turkish Tufts University student detained by immigration officials has raised the idea of having her brought back to his court for a hearing. U.S.
 
FILE- In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo)
Tufts student from Turkey details arrest, crowded detention conditions in new court filing
A Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey has renewed a push for her release, saying in court documents that she feared for her life when she was detained by immigration officials on the streets of a Boston suburb.
 
This Jan. 16, 2025 photo shows an entrance to Assumption University in Worcester, Mass. (AP Photo/Robert Bukaty)
Kidnapping and conspiracy charges are dropped against college students in ‘Catch a Predator’ fad
A judge has dismissed conspiracy and kidnapping charges against five Massachusetts college students who were accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through a dating app and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on social media.
 
U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H., announces his bid to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a fellow Democrat, Thursday, April 3, 2025, in Manchester, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
New Hampshire Congressman Chris Pappas announces bid to succeed fellow Democrat in US Senate
Four-term Congressman Chris Pappas of New Hampshire has announced his bid to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, a fellow Democrat, next year.
 
CORRECTS DATE - In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo)
Turkish student detained by ICE moved to Vermont before judge’s order, government says
U.S. Justice Department lawyers say a Tufts University doctoral student from Turkey who was detained by immigration authorities had been moved to Vermont by the time a federal judge ordered that she be kept in Massachusetts.
 
Parker Tirrell, a transgender athlete who plays on her high school's girls soccer team, practices in the driveway of her family home, Friday, March 7, 2025, in Plymouth, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Transgender teens fight back against Trump’s ban on participation in girls’ sports
Two transgender teenagers in New Hampshire are the first to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” Sixteen-year-old Parker Tirrell has played soccer since age 4 and wants to keep at it.
 
This contributed photo shows Rumeysa Ozturk on an apple-picking trip in 2021. (AP Photo)
Turkish student at Tufts University is latest Palestinian supporter swept up in US crackdown
A Turkish student detained by federal police as she walked on the streets of a Boston suburb is the latest supporter of Palestinian causes to be swept up in the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants who have expressed their political views.
 
In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., Tuesday, March 26, 2025. (AP Photo)
Turkish student at Tufts University detained, video shows masked people handcuffing her
A lawyer for a Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University says she has been detained by Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation.
 
Protesters rally outside the Rhode Island State House in support of deported Brown University Dr. Rasha Alawieh, Monday, March 17, 2025, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)
Homeland Security says professor deported to Lebanon with US visa supported Hezbollah leader
Homeland Security officials say a doctor from Lebanon who was deported over the weekend despite having a U.S. visa “openly admitted” to supporting a Hezbollah leader and attending his funeral. Dr.
 
A customer holds the door for a family arriving at Leavitt's Country Bakery in this April 13, 2023 file photo, in Conway, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)
Bakery owner in New England says he was offended over town’s decision against pastry painting
A New Hampshire bakery owner has tesified that his excitement about displaying a painting by high school students of giant pastries quickly turned to annoyance after a zoning code officer told him it was a sign that had to be changed or removed.
 
Leavitt's Country Bakery is seen in this April 12, 2023 file photo, in Conway, N.H. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, file)
A free speech dispute over a New England town’s pastry shop painting heads to trial
A New Hampshire town and a bakery owner are scheduled for trial in a First Amendment dispute about a painting of a sun and pastries.
 
Two teens challenging New Hampshire's new law banning transgender girls from girls' sports teams, Parker Tirrell, third from left, and Iris Turmelle, sixth from left, pose with their families and attorneys in Concord, N.H., Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer, File)
Teens fighting New Hampshire’s ban on transgender girls in sports target Trump’s order next
Two students challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender athletes on girls sports teams will also fight President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports.” A judge gave them permission to update their lawsuit Wednesday.
 
In this Sept. 16, 2015, photo, a woman in Sullivan City, Texas, who said she entered the country illegally, walks with her daughter who was born in the United States, but was denied a birth certificate. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)
Third judge blocks Trump’s order ending birthright citizenship for kids of people in US illegally
A federal judge who just blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship for the children of people in the U.S. illegally says he’s not persuaded by the Trump administration’s arguments. Monday’s ruling from U.S.
 
In this photograph provided by Kathyrn McKee, fellow hiker Beata LeLacheur climbs the Westside trail, just hours before needing to be rescued, on Mount Washington, N.H., Sunday, Feb. 2, 2025. (Kathyrn McKee photo via AP)
Freezing hikers stuck in waist-deep snow rescued during Mount Washington whiteout
 
Family and friends of Bradley Asbury react at his sentencing hearing at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester, N.H., Monday, Jan. 27, 2025. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool)
Man convicted of holding down boy while he was raped at a youth center gets 20- to 40-year sentence
A former leader at a New Hampshire youth detention center who was convicted of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998 has been sentenced to 20 to 40 years in prison.
 
In this undated and unknown location photo released by the Department of Homeland Security shows Border Patrol Agent David Maland posing with a service dog. (Department of Homeland Security via AP)
Prosecutors say woman charged in killing of Border Patrol agent was in contact with homicide suspect
Federal prosecutors say a Washington state woman charged in connection with the fatal shooting of U.S. border patrol agent in Vermont had been in frequent contact with someone whom authorities have linked to homicides in Pennsylvania and California.
 
CORRECTS TO JOAN MALAND INSTEAD OF MUSSA - This undated image courtesy of Joan Maland shows U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland and his K9 partner, Cora. David Maland was killed Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, following a traffic stop in Vermont. (David Maland/Joan Maland via AP)
Border Patrol agent killed in Vermont worked at the Pentagon during 9/11, family says
The family of a U.S. Border Patrol agent who was killed in Vermont during a traffic stop near the Canadian border says he was a military veteran who worked security duty at the Pentagon during the time of the Sept. 11 attacks.
 
CORRECTS TO JOAN MALAND INSTEAD OF MUSSA - This undated image courtesy of Joan Maland shows U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland, who was killed Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, following a traffic stop in Vermont. (David Maland/Joan Maland via AP)
US border patrol agent was fatally shot in Vermont near Canada
Authorities are investigating the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent near Canada that also left a suspect dead and another injured. U.S. Customs and Border Protection says agent David Maland was killed following a traffic stop.
 
Kelsy Brainard appears district court as she and four other Massachusetts college students made their first appearance on conspiracy and kidnapping charges in Worcester, Mass, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
College students appear in court in case stemming from ‘Catch a Predator’ fad on TikTok
Five Massachusetts college students have appeared in court, accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through the Tinder dating app and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok.
 
New Hampshire Supreme Court upholds judge’s ruling on ‘Keep New England White’ banners
New Hampshire’s highest court has upheld a judge’s dismissal of civil rights complaints against a white nationalist group that prosecutors say trespassed when it displayed “Keep New England White” banners from an overpass in 2022.
 
In this image provided by Dawn Felicani, Tiki, a 20-year-old blind cat, walks on the thin ice of Nabnasset Pond, before being rescued, Monday Dec. 16, 2024, in Westford, Mass. (Dawn Felicani via AP)
A 20-year-old blind cat is rescued from an icy Massachusetts pond after some quick thinking
A 20-year-old blind cat named Tiki caused a scare after he was seen on ice floating in a Massachusetts pond and then fell in.
 
Christa McAuliffe, NASA's first teacher in space, rides with her children Caroline and Scott past the Statehouse during a parade, Saturday, July 21, 1985 in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
New documentary focuses on Christa McAuliffe’s impact as a teacher in New Hampshire
A new documentary about teacher Christa McAuliffe focuses more on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
 
Boston City Council member Tania Fernandes Anderson leaves federal court in Boston after pleading not guilty to five counts of wire fraud and one count of theft on Friday, Dec. 6, 2024 in Boston. (AP Photo/Steve LeBlanc)
Boston City Council member is arrested on fraud and theft charges
A Boston city councilor has been arrested on federal fraud charges, accused of funneling part of an inflated bonus payment to a staffer to whom she was related into her own pockets during an exchange at a City Hall bathroom. Acting U.S.
 
Snow covers homes and streets near the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Mich., Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (Neil Blake/The Grand Rapids Press via AP)
A storm brings squalls to the Northeast; 2 people die from heart attacks after shoveling snow
Snow squalls — sudden bursts of heavy snow and gusty winds — have created whiteout conditions in parts of the Northeast during a storm that is also bringing more snow to the Great Lakes region.
 
FILE - Robert Tulloch, 17, is escorted into Lebanon, N.H. District Court by Tropper James Stienmetz, right, and Hanover Sgt. Jeffrey Fleury, Feb. 21, 2001. (AP Photo/Jim Cole, File)
Should a man who killed 2 Ivy League professors as a teen continue serving life without parole?
A judge wants New Hampshire’s highest court to weigh in on the case of a man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors and is challenging his life-without-parole sentence.
 
FILE — Two teens challenging New Hampshire's new law banning transgender girls from girls' sports teams, Parker Tirrell, third from left, and Iris Turmelle, sixth from left, pose with their families and attorneys in Concord, N.H., Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer, File)
New Hampshire courts hear 2 cases on transgender girls playing girls sports
Two New Hampshire fathers who were punished for wearing pink wristbands marked “XX” to represent female chromosomes at a high school soccer game say they didn’t set out to harass or otherwise target a transgender athlete.
 
Ex-Portsmouth Police Department sergeant Aaron Goodwin appears in Hampton District Court on Sept. 17, 2024 after pleading guilty to a count of simple assault. (Deb Cram/Foster's Daily Democrat via AP)
Race-motivated assault charges filed against former New Hampshire police officer
A white former New Hampshire police officer has been accused of a race-motivated assault against a Black bank executive outside of a diner on Thanksgiving Eve 2023.
 
FILE - Danielle Dauphinais, who was charged with second-degree murder and two counts of witness tampering in the death of her five-year-old son Elijah Lewis, appears in Hillsborough Superior Court South, Sept. 26, 2024, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool, File)
Mother who beat and starved her 5-year-old son to death sentenced to over 50 years in prison
A New Hampshire woman has been sentenced to 53 years to life in prison in the death of her 5-year-old son, who was beaten, starved and exposed to drugs.
 
Parents sue school district following wristband protest against transgender girl at soccer game
Three parents and a grandparent say their rights were violated when they were barred from a New Hampshire school’s grounds for wearing wristbands in protest of a transgender girl playing in a girls soccer game. The lawsuit filed Monday in U.S.
 
FILE - A voter enters a booth to fill out a ballot in a primary election to pick candidates for governor, the U.S. House, and the state Legislature, Sept. 10, 2024, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, file)
ACLU lawsuit challenges New Hampshire’s voter proof-of-citizenship law
The new law was set to take effect after the November elections. Republican Gov. Chris Sununu signed the bill earlier this month.
 
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