BOSTON (AP) – The Boston Tea Party was one of the nation’s most celebrated concert venues in the late 1960s, showcasing everything from up-and-coming local bands to some of the biggest names in rock ‘n’ roll and the blues, including Led Zeppelin and Muddy Waters.The Music Museum of New England and the Boston Historical Society […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – New Hampshire’s skies have a strong population of bald eagles, bird watchers said.Biologists found 42 eagles during an annual survey and the numbers keep getting better, according to a New Hampshire Audubon report released Wednesday.The group’s senior biologist said the number was surprising, given the mild winter.“With so much more open […]

DURHAM, N.H. (AP) – The University of New Hampshire said it will increase its health education program following the death of a senior died from bacterial meningitis.Danielle Thompson, of Bangor, Maine, died Jan. 3 from the disease. Since then, college health officials have talked with students and warned them about the disease.The school also is […]

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -Tighter homes, tuned-up furnaces and other steps could save Vermonters nearly $500 million on heating costs in the next decade, cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the same time, a new state study says.The new Department of Public Service report, completed at the Legislature’s request, could lead to calls for a new state […]

WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) – Jimmy Carter acknowledged Tuesday at a historically Jewish college that his new book on the Middle East has “caused great concern in the Jewish community,” but noted that it has prompted discussion nonetheless.The uproar over “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” has been going on for several months and recently prompted 14 members […]

KEENE, N.H. (AP) – More than 1,000 small-government activists have pledged to move to New Hampshire within two years, leaders said.The Free State Project said the first thousand supporters have volunteered to move to New Hampshire and start a libertarian enclave. The ultimate goal is for 20,000 “Free Staters” to move to New Hampshire to […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – A soldier from Manchester was killed this week in a roadside bombing in Iraq, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.Army Spc. Toby Olsen, 28, was killed Saturday in the bombing in Karma, Iraq, along with three other soldiers, the department said. An explosive device went off near their Humvee.The soldiers were […]

STORRS, Conn. (AP) – A University of Connecticut sophomore who was struck in a hit-and-run accident early Saturday has died, UConn police said Monday.UConn and state police have been looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck Carlee Wines, 19, of Manalapan, N.J., early Saturday.Police say Wines was struck in a crosswalk just before […]

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) – A frostbitten hiker who had been missing since Saturday was found Monday on Mount Lafayette, bundled in his sleeping bag with gloves on his feet.Brian Gagnon, a 24-year-old Plymouth State University graduate student, separated from his two friends on Saturday during a whiteout. He had placed calls from his cell phone […]

EAGLE LAKE (AP) – After a highly competitive run in which the lead changed several times, a Jefferson, N.H., man emerged as the winner of this weekend’s Irving Woodlands Eagle Lake sled dog race covering a course of more than 100 miles in icy northern Maine.“It feels good to win, but I never had a […]