PLYMOUTH, N.H. (AP) – Police are warning Plymouth State University students to keep doors and windows locked because someone is stealing laptop computers in a campus neighborhood.

Nineteen laptops have been stolen since January, most of them from unlocked homes on or near Pleasant, Russell and Winter streets, police said. One arrest has been made, but police said that was an isolated crime.

Plymouth State has sent out bulk e-mails to students warning of the thefts and telling them to keep their computers and other valuables locked up and out of sight.

Man rescued from mountain

GORHAM, N.H. (AP) – Fish and Game officers have rescued a 62-year-old Virginia hiker who injured his ankle.

George Gault of Virginia Beach, Va., started to hike the Appalachian Trail in Gorham on Sunday, heading toward Maine. But he injured his ankle and decided to hike out Monday morning but the injury grew worse and he called for help on his cell phone.

Fish and Game conservation officers and members of Androscoggin Valley Search and Rescue found him on the Mahoosuc Trail on Mount Hayes and helped him out of the wilderness. He was treated at Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin.

Salvadoran Soldiers

BERLIN, N.H. (AP) – About 40 members of a Salvadoran Army artillery unit and members of the New Hampshire National Guard are training in Gagetown, New Brunswick.

The Salvadoran soldiers are attending the annual training for the Berlin-based 2nd Battalion, 197th Field Artillery.

The exchange is part of the Guard’s program with El Salvador, which began five years ago as part of a federal Department of Defense initiative. Earlier this year, members of the 197th Field Artillery unit went to El Salvador, a Central American country about the size of New Hampshire, but with six times the population.

It is the only country in the Western Hemisphere besides the United States to send troops to Iraq.

The guard will host a lobster and clam bake for the visiting Salvadorans. The Salvadoran soldiers also will attend a “Support Our Troops” rally at the Statehouse in Concord on June 24.

Castle for Sale

GILFORD, N.H. (AP) – Ten months after it went on the market, a historic castle overlooking Lake Winnipesaukee and a view of the White Mountains is still looking for a buyer.

A real estate agent is advertising Kimball Castle nationally, hoping to find a developer with deep pockets who can turn it into a luxury hotel and spa. The sale price is $2.1 million, but renovation will cost millions more.

Seven years ago, Historic Inns of New England bought the castle and several outbuildings hoping to raise enough capital to renovate the property. The buildings were all put up by railroad baron Benjamin Ames Kimball in 1895.

But Historic Inns of New England failed to find enough investors and it sold the castle to David and Mary Jodoin in 2001.

The Jodoins say they have invested a great deal of time and money in improvements, but the cost was higher than expected. They put the castle back on the market in August.