SALEM, Mass. (AP) – A Harvard economics professor is paying the price for stealing a truckload of manure from a horse farmer.

Martin Weitzman, of Gloucester, was accused of stealing manure from Charles Lane’s Rockport farm on April 1. Weitzman is Harvard University’s Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics.

On Monday, a Gloucester District Court judge dismissed larceny, trespassing and malicious destruction of property charges against Weitzman and ordered him to pay $600 in restitution and $300 to the Boy Scouts.

Lane’s farm sells the manure for $35 a truckload and also uses it to fertilize a pasture.

Driver killed, 5 children hurt in N.H. crash

LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) – State police say an elderly woman died and five children in her car were hurt Monday morning in an accident on Interstate 93.

Police said the car was northbound when it veered off the highway north of Exit 4. Police said the driver, Ellen Folland, 69, of Billerica, Mass., died but it wasn’t clear if she died as a result of the accident or had a medical problem beforehand.

Five children in the car were hurt, one seriously.

The accident happened at about 9:30 a.m.

Home prices skyrocket on lake-fronts

HOLDERNESS, N.H. (AP) – Multimillion-dollar homes are changing the complexion of New Hampshire’s largest lakes.

Economist Russ Thibeault says the real estate market in the state’s Lakes Region is drawing people with wealth and spending power. He says a blue-collar family can’t afford to buy property on the lake any more.

Thibeault says homes that used to cost a million dollars are now considered “tear downs” that are replaced with a homes costing millions more.

Realtors say some of their customers use Laconia Airport to fly into vacation at properties with average selling prices of $2 million to $4 million.

They say some long-time residents are selling because they can’t afford the high property taxes their lakefront homes are assessed.

N.H. Guard members return from Afghanistan

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Members of the New Hampshire National Guard are coming home this week from Afghanistan.

The soldiers of Command Support Team, Third Brigade, were deployed to Afghanistan last August to help train the Afghan National Army. They returned to the United States last week for demobilization training. They are scheduled to return to Manchester on Wednesday, where they will be reunited with their families.