KATHY McCORMACK

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.
December 6, 2024
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.
December 5, 2024
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.
November 26, 2024
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.
November 22, 2024
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.
October 31, 2024
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.
October 25, 2024
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.
October 1, 2024
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.
September 30, 2024
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, Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024, in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)
Mother pleads guilty in the death of her 5-year-old son whose body was found in a park
A New Hampshire woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2021 death of her 5-year-old son. Prosecutors say Elijah Lewis was beaten, starved and neglected, weighing just 19 pounds when his body was found buried in a Massachusetts park.
September 27, 2024
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)
A man who killed 2 Dartmouth professors as a teen is challenging his sentence
A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it.
September 25, 2024
FILE - The seal of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is displayed on a Massachusetts State Police cruiser parked outside the Statehouse, March 3, 2023, in Boston. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)
Massachusetts trial attorney to lead investigation of state police recruit’s death
The Massachusetts attorney general has named a veteran trial attorney to lead an outside investigation into the death of a state police recruit following a training exercise earlier this month.
September 23, 2024
Outside agency to investigate police recruit’s death after boxing training
A district attorney reviewing the case of a Massachusetts State Police recruit who died after a boxing training exercise says he needs to turn it over to another agency because the man once worked in his office as a victim witness advocate.
September 16, 2024
This Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024 photo provided by the Hillsborough Fire Department shows first responders at the scene of a rescue for a child who became wedged between two boulders, in Windsor, N.H. (Hillsborough Fire Department via AP)
A boy was trapped between boulders for 9 hours until crews could free him
A New Hampshire fire chief says rescuers freed an 11-year-old boy who slipped between two boulders near his school and was trapped for more than nine hours. The boy’s school says he was pried out of the boulders in Windsor shortly after 3 a.m.
September 16, 2024
This photo provided by Sara Tirrell shows her daughter Parker Tirrell, a transgender teen, who's family along with another family, filed a lawsuit Friday, Aug. 16, 2024, challenging a New Hampshire state law that bans them from playing on girls' sports teams at their public high schools. (Sara Tirrell via AP)
2 transgender New Hampshire girls can play on girls sports teams during lawsuit, a judge rules
A federal judge says two transgender girls can try out for and play on girls school sports teams as the teens challenge a New Hampshire ban.
September 10, 2024
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu uses the Heimlich maneuver on contestant Christian Moreno who is choking at a lobster roll eating contest at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival in Hampton Beach, N.H., Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (Kateri Coffey via AP)
New Hampshire governor helps save man choking on lobster roll at eating contest
A man says he’s grateful New Hampshire’s governor came to his aid when he started choking during a lobster roll eating contest. Gov.
September 9, 2024
A statue of America's first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe, who died when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart in 1986, is seen after its unveiling on what would've been her 76th birthday, Monday, Sept. 2, 2024, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)
Christa McAuliffe, still pioneering, is first woman with a statue on New Hampshire capitol grounds
Christa McAuliffe is still a pioneer, decades after she was picked to become America’s first teacher in space.
September 2, 2024
FILE - Automatic knives are on display at Bonds House of Cutlery/Knives & More, Jan. 27, 2017, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher, File)
Massachusetts strikes down a 67-year-old switchblade ban, cites landmark Supreme Court gun decision
Residents of Massachusetts are now free to arm themselves with switchblades after a 67-year-old restriction was struck down in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 landmark decision on gun rights and the Second Amendment.
August 28, 2024
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, after a judge granted an emergency request to allow one of the girls to play soccer while their lawsuit continues. (AP Photo/Holly Ramer, File)
Judge extends temporary order for transgender New Hampshire girl to play soccer, hears arguments
A federal judge has extended a temporary order for a transgender girl to play soccer for her high school team while considering arguments for a longer-term order and a possible trial as the teen and another student challenge a New Hampshire ban.
August 27, 2024
FILE - Police stand at the entrance to New Hampshire Hospital, Nov. 17, 2023, in Concord, N.H. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)
State trooper who fatally shot man at hospital was justified in use of deadly force, report says
The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says a state trooper who fatally shot a man at a psychiatric hospital in November shortly after the man killed a security guard was justified in using deadly force.
August 22, 2024
Alexandra Eckersley, right, leaves the courtroom sobbing with her mother, Nancy, after the jury gave the verdict in her trial at Hillsborough County Superior Court in Manchester, N.H., on Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. Jurors found 27-year-old Eckersley guilty of reckless conduct, endangering the welfare of a child and falsifying physical evidence, but not guilty of two assault charges. She will be sentenced at a later date. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool)
Jury reaches split verdict in baby abandonment case involving Dennis Eckersley’s daughter
A jury has reached a split verdict in the case of a mother charged with abandoning her newborn in subfreezing temperatures after giving birth in New Hampshire woods.
August 2, 2024
A flood-damaged road is shown Thursday, Aug. 1, 2024, in Morgan, Vt. Vermont Gov. Phil Scott said at a news conference Wednesday, July 31, that the latest storms to hit the state have undone much of the cleanup and recovery work from its last major bout of flooding only weeks ago. (AP Photo/Lisa Rathke)
Vermont gets respite from flood warnings as US senator pushes for disaster aid package
Vermonters started removing debris and silt from their houses and yards and pulled damaged goods from homes as crews began the process of repairing roads from the latest bout of violent flooding.
August 1, 2024
Defendant Alexandra Eckersley is sworn in to testify during her trial at Hillsborough County Superior Court, Wednesday, July 31, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. Eckersley, the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, is accused of abandoning her baby after giving birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool)
Daughter of Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley says she thought baby died after she gave birth
The daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley has testified at her trial that she didn’t know she was pregnant when she gave birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022 and thought her now 19-month-old baby had died.
July 31, 2024
Crews clean up debris from flash floods in Lyndonville, Vt., Wednesday, July 31, 2024. Parts of the state hit by flooding Monday night and Tuesday are bracing again as a new round of severe thunderstorms moves through the region. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)
Governor calls on flood-weary Vermonters to ‘stick together’ with more thunderstorms on the horizon
Vermont’s governor says the latest storms to hit the state have undone much of the cleanup and recovery work done since its last major bout of flooding only weeks ago, and he is calling on residents to “stick together” as more heavy rains hit northeastern and central Vermont on Wednesday.
August 1, 2024
Zac Drown, of Lyndon Electric Company, clears debris amid flood damage in Lyndon, Vt., Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (AP Photo/Dmitry Belyakov)
More flooding hits Vermont with washed-out roads, smashed vehicles and destroyed homes
Heavy rain has caved in roads, forced some homes off their foundations and led to about two dozen rescues in northeastern Vermont.
July 30, 2024
Defendant Alexandra Eckersley stands as the jury enters the courtroom for her trial at Hillsborough County Superior Court, Thursday, July 25, 2024, in Manchester, N.H. Eckersley, the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, is accused of abandoning her baby after giving birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022. (David Lane/Union Leader via AP, Pool)
Daughter of Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley on trial, accused of abandoning newborn in cold
The trial has started for the daughter of baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Dennis Eckersley, who is accused of abandoning her baby after giving birth in the woods in subfreezing temperatures on Christmas night in 2022.
July 25, 2024
Karen Read, center, listens as the prosecutor questions Dr. Marie Russell, during Read's trial in Norfolk Superior Court, Friday, June 21, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. Read, 44, is accused of running into her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV in the middle of a nor'easter and leaving him for dead after a night of heavy drinking. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, Pool)
Defense for woman accused of killing police officer boyfriend tries to show she was framed
Attorneys for a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank outside another officer’s home have begun presenting their case that she was framed by police.
June 21, 2024
David Neils, the chief aquatic biologist at the New Hampshire Dept. of Environmental Services, inspects water of Lake Winnipesaukee at 19 Mile Beach, Friday, June 14, 2024, in Tuftonboro N.H., for signs of algae bloom. State officials have issued two warnings of potentially dangerous algae blooms along the lake, which is the state's largest. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)
‘Tis the season for swimming and bacteria alerts in lakes, rivers
With summer about to start, many people planning to flock to their favorite swimming holes may also want to read up on bacteria warnings.
June 14, 2024
High school president writes notes thanking fellow seniors — 180 of them
A high school class president in Massachusetts who gave a commencement speech wanted to recognize all of his fellow graduates. So he wrote them personal thank-you notes that were presented at the June 7 ceremony — 180, to be exact.
June 12, 2024
In a image taken from May 1, 2024 video, provided by Hard Working Movies, Pamela Smart makes a statement at Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Bedford Hills, N.Y. Smart, who is serving life in prison for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990, accepted full responsibility for his death for the first time in a videotaped statement released Tuesday, June 11, 2024, as part of her latest sentence reduction request. (Hard Working Movies via AP)
Pamela Smart, serving life, accepts responsibility for her husband’s 1990 killing for the first time
For the first time, inmate Pamela Smart has accepted full responsibility for plotting with her teenage student to have her husband killed in 1990.
June 11, 2024
University of California, Santa Cruz graduate students and other academic workers in the UAW 4811 union begin a strike and are joined by UCSC students for Justice in Palestine as they picket the main entrance to campus on Monday, May 20, 2024, in Santa Cruz, Calif. (Shmuel Thaler/The Santa Cruz Sentinel via AP)
Police arrest 80 at Israel-Hamas war protest at UC Santa Cruz, school says
A spokesperson for the University of California, Santa Cruz, says approximately 80 people have been arrested at a pro-Palestinian demonstration that has been blocking the main campus entrance for days.
May 31, 2024
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