DEDHAM, Mass. (AP) – A Quincy dominatrix was not immediately a suspect in the disappearance of a New Hampshire man who allegedly died of a heart attack during a visit to the woman’s makeshift “dungeon,” a police detective said Friday.Testifying in the manslaughter trial of Barbara Asher, Detective Mark Sambataro of Salem, N.H. said he […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Prosecutors said he should have spent his old age planting gardens or visiting his grandchildren, but instead 72-year-old Victor Riccitelli was running gambling operations for the mob.Friday, a federal judge sentenced him to 6 years in prison for racketeering, flatly rejecting his argument that prosecutors sought to embarrass him by […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – Prosecutors said he should have spent his old age planting gardens or visiting his grandchildren, but instead 72-year-old Victor Riccitelli was running gambling operations for the mob.Friday, a federal judge sentenced him to 6 years in prison for racketeering, flatly rejecting his argument that prosecutors sought to embarrass him by […]

BOSTON (AP) – The head of the state Department of Social Services fiercely defended the agency’s actions in the case of an 11-year-old girl allegedly beaten into a coma, saying every health professional involved believed the girl was injuring herself.DSS Commissioner Harry Spence said Friday the agency did nothing wrong before Haleigh Poutre was hospitalized […]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – The North Atlantic right whale spotted way out of range this week in Corpus Christi Bay is named “Boomerang,” and scientists say the sighting is the farthest west ever of the extremely rare whale.Tony LaCasse of the New England Aquarium said Friday that there are fewer than 350 North Atlantic […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A man suspected of robbing three New Hampshire banks has been caught in Massachusetts.Police in Needham, Mass., on Friday morning arrested Robert Chadronet, of Providence, R.I. Chadronet is a suspect in more than a dozen bank robberies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, according to the FBI.New Hampshire authorities plan to charge […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Legislators are debating whether health insurance providers should pay for testing of potential bone marrow donors.If the bill is approved, New Hampshire would become the fifth state to mandate test coverage.Advocates say testing can cost as much as $150, which can deter some people from signing up to join the pool […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – A man suspected of robbing three New Hampshire banks has been caught in Massachusetts.Police in Needham, Mass., on Friday morning arrested Robert Chadronet, of Providence, R.I. Chadronet is a suspect in more than a dozen bank robberies in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, according to the FBI.New Hampshire authorities plan to charge […]

BOSTON (AP) – The head of the state Department of Social Services fiercely defended the agency’s actions in the case of an 11-year-old girl allegedly beaten into a coma, saying every health professional involved believed the girl was injuring herself.DSS Commissioner Harry Spence said Friday the agency did nothing wrong before Haleigh Poutre was hospitalized […]

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) – The North Atlantic right whale spotted way out of range this week in Corpus Christi Bay is named “Boomerang,” and scientists say the sighting is the farthest west ever of the extremely rare whale.Tony LaCasse of the New England Aquarium said Friday that there are fewer than 350 North Atlantic […]