LACONIA, N.H. (AP) – New England has the highest rate of asthma in the country, and a new study finds it’s especially prevalent among poor people.The Asthma Regional Council of New England study found that people living below the poverty level are twice as likely to have asthma as people who earn three times the […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – The state’s Roman Catholic diocese is merging three parishes in the Lakes Region, due to a shortage of priests.St. Matthew in Plymouth, St. Timothy in Bristol and St. Agnes in Ashland will be merged by July 1, parishioners were told during Easter Mass on Sunday. They were asked to come up […]

BARRINGTON, N.H. (AP) – A woman who raises miniature donkey hopes the person who has her missing baby donkey also has a heart.Roberta Henderson said the 3-week-old animal was stolen from her farm Saturday evening while she and her husband were out. If the donkey is not returned, it could die because it still needs […]

LACONIA, N.H. (AP) – New England has the highest rate of asthma in the country, and a new study finds it’s especially prevalent among poor people.The Asthma Regional Council of New England study found that people living below the poverty level are twice as likely to have asthma as people who earn three times the […]

JAMESTOWN, R.I. (AP) – Rita Crawford’s life stories often share a common setting: the Jamestown Bridge that runs over her waterfront neighborhood.Her husband drove across the bridge the day he decided to buy a summer home on a whim almost 60 years ago. A bridge tollman called the fire department a few years later when […]

EPSOM, N.H. (AP) – A Franklin man died after his car crossed the center line and crashed into a pick-up truck on Route 4. Robert McEachern, 30, was ejected from his Chevy Cavalier and died at the scene of Saturday afternoon’s crash, state police said.The car burst into flames, starting a brush fire. Route 4 […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – As authorities work to identify skeletal remains found near Interstate 93, the family of a Chichester man missing since 2001 worries the body is his.The Attorney General’s Office has called in a forensic anthropologist from Maine to help identify the remains, which they believe are more than a year old, and […]

SHARON, Mass. (AP)– A repairman for Verizon Communications Inc. was electrocuted Sunday morning while fixing a damaged telephone pole in Sharon, a company official said.Steve Buckman, who had worked for Verizon for 25 years, was among a crew fixing a pole that was damaged in an earlier auto accident.“He somehow came in contact with a […]

LACONIA, N.H. (AP) – Marinas in the Lakes Region are predicting a busy summer, despite high gas prices.Dean Clancy, a salesman at Lakeport Landing Marina in Laconia, says if someone’s got $50,000 to $200,000 invested in a boat, they’re unlikely to balk at spending $1,000 on gas for the season.Boaters also get a break on […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – As authorities work to identify skeletal remains found near Interstate 93, the family of a Chichester man missing since 2001 worries the body is his.The Attorney General’s Office has called in a forensic anthropologist from Maine to help identify the remains, which they believe are more than a year old, and […]