CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A mattress company in Milford has settled a complaint with the state alleging it ran deceptive ads.

Attorney General Kelly Ayotte said Sleep E-Zzzz Corp. has agreed to pay a $1,000 fine, run accurate ads and send the state copies of them for two years. Another $9,000 in fines was suspended for a year.

The state alleged that Sleep E-Zzzz violated the Consumer Protection Act by running ads that misrepresented the price and quality of mattresses.

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ENFIELD, N.H. (AP) – The Shaker Museum is in tax trouble and risks losing its property to the town.

The museum has asked the town to wipe out $76,000 in back taxes.

By next April, the town could take possession of three buildings, including the Great Stone Dwelling, said to be the largest Shaker structure ever built. To avoid the loss, the museum must come up with a payment plan or abatement for about half the back taxes.

The museum chairwoman, Karen Hambleton, said the museum would have trouble coming up with the money by then. She said the inability to keep an inn and restaurant operating in the Great Stone Dwelling was the main reason for the unpaid tax bills.

Even though it is a nonprofit, the museum owes taxes on two houses it rents as residences and the Great Stone Dwelling.

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NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) – A former employee of the Claremont Eagle Times newspaper is suspected of stealing about $2,000 in coins from newspaper distribution boxes in New Hampshire and Vermont.

Police have charged Alexander Garrison, 34, with several thefts after reporting they found him with $80 in marked coins and keys to the boxes in his vehicle. The newspaper said Garrison was a home delivery manager for one week last month.

Police said they caught one of the thefts on surveillance video and planted marked coins in the boxes. Money was stolen from newspaper boxes in Newport and Claremont, as well as Chester, Vt. and Springfield, Vt.

Search for canoe accident victims reveals items on pond bottom

PLYMOUTH, Mass. (AP) – Divers on Wednesday recovered additional items believed to have come from a canoe that capsized, but the search failed to turn up the bodies of a 21-year-old woman and 16-year-old boy who are presumed dead.

The discovery of items found on the bottom of a large pond could pinpoint where the canoe capsized and help lead searchers to the bodies, Plymouth Fire Chief Jim Pierson said.

Pierson wouldn’t specify what types of items were recovered from the bottom of Great South Pond, or say why they were believed to have come from the canoe.

Divers and searchers aboard sonar-equipped boats were expected to resume looking on Thursday for Brian Raleigh, 16, of Plymouth, and Ashley Coury, 21, of Delray, Fla.

Raleigh and Coury were among four people in the canoe when it capsized late Saturday night. The two others – Coury’s boyfriend, Dan Madden, 20, also of Delray, and Michael Raleigh, 22, Brian’s half-brother, from Plymouth – were rescued and treated for symptoms of hypothermia.

Police have declined to comment on what may have caused the accident.

Family members issued a statement Tuesday saying the four who went on the canoe trip had gone on what they expected would be a brief outing on a clear evening, but “simply did not realize that four people were too many for a canoe, or that the water was as cold as it was.”

The four had attended a birthday party for one of their grandmothers earlier Saturday evening in Braintree, about 35 miles northwest of Plymouth. Afterward they headed to a family home at the pond and went out in the canoe.