HOOKSETT, N.H. (AP) – When Hooksett Police arrested a local man in the 20-year-old murder of Danny Paquette, it revived memories of another suspicious, unsolved death in the victim’s family.Danny Paquette was 15 when he and his uncle, an off-duty Manchester police officer, discovered his mother’s burned body in an abandoned pigsty on Paquette property […]

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) – A city man has been charged with second-degree murder after a double stabbing that left one man dead and another critically wounded, the state attorney general’s office and city police said Sunday.Brad Chartrand, 23, was arrested and charged with first-degree assault Saturday, shortly after the early morning stabbings. The second-degree murder […]

BOSTON (AP) – A car linked to the fatal shootings of four young men in the basement of a Boston home was recovered on Saturday, while Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole said she won’t tolerate a “premature arrest” in the high-profile case.The 1998 black Ford Escort hatchback, which was driven before the incident by one […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – A well-known former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who’s now the head of a Cambridge consulting firm survived an ambush in his company parking lot during which he was shot several times.John J. Donovan, head of Cambridge Executive Enterprises, was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital and released on Saturday morning after […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – An elderly man, who drove his car into the path of an oncoming Amtrak train Saturday, escaped serious injury.It took firefighters about 20 minute to free the 80-year-old driver, who was conscious and talking to rescuers the entire time, police said. He was taken to Hartford Hospital for evaluation. Authorities say […]

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – An elderly man, who drove his car into the path of an oncoming Amtrak train Saturday, escaped serious injury.It took firefighters about 20 minute to free the 80-year-old driver, who was conscious and talking to rescuers the entire time, police said. He was taken to Hartford Hospital for evaluation. Authorities say […]

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) – A well-known former Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who’s now the head of a Cambridge consulting firm survived an ambush in his company parking lot during which he was shot several times.John J. Donovan, head of Cambridge Executive Enterprises, was treated at Massachusetts General Hospital and released on Saturday morning after […]

BOSTON (AP) – A car linked to the fatal shootings of four young men in the basement of a Boston home was recovered on Saturday, while Boston Police Commissioner Kathleen O’Toole said she won’t tolerate a “premature arrest” in the high-profile case.The 1998 black Ford Escort hatchback, which was driven before the incident by one […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Pfizer Inc. won a crucial court ruling Friday that will allow it to exclusively sell the top-selling drug worldwide, the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, until 2011. Shares of Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, soared more than 11 percent on the news.District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. ruled in Delaware federal court […]

BOSTON (AP) – The execution-style slayings of four young men in a basement music studio this week cast a spotlight on a crime wave that has pushed homicide in Boston to a 10-year high.While the homicide rate nationally has dropped over the past decade, some cities – such as Boston and Philadelphia – are seeing […]