NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – A Connecticut food importer and its owner pleaded guilty Thursday to smuggling chicken feet from Thailand and selling them to specialty grocers around the country, a crime that investigators discovered this year while trying to prevent an outbreak of bird flu.Chicken feet are an Asian delicacy but imports from Thailand […]

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) – A Connecticut food importer and its owner pleaded guilty Thursday to smuggling chicken feet from Thailand and selling them to specialty grocers around the country, a crime that investigators discovered this year while trying to prevent an outbreak of bird flu.Chicken feet are an Asian delicacy but imports from Thailand […]

ROCKINGHAM, Vt. (AP) – A leaky roof has forced the closure of a section of the Bellows Falls Opera House less than two weeks after it reopened following a renovation.Melting snow leaked in around a drain and created a three-foot hole in the restored plaster ceiling in the opera house. A section of the opera […]

KITTERY (AP) – After 21 years of service, the attack submarine USS Salt Lake City arrived Thursday at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, which will serve as its last stop before the submarine is dismantled and scrapped.The Salt Lake City and its 127-member crew completed its career by surfacing through the polar ice cap, breaking through […]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Wednesday a deal to locate the headquarters of Branson’s Virgin Galactic at a planned $225 million state-built spaceport in southern New Mexico will make the state “the launch pad for the new space industry.”“We’re about to embark on a wonderful adventure … we’re going where […]

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) – British entrepreneur Richard Branson said Wednesday a deal to locate the headquarters of Branson’s Virgin Galactic at a planned $225 million state-built spaceport in southern New Mexico will make the state “the launch pad for the new space industry.”“We’re about to embark on a wonderful adventure … we’re going where […]

SALEM, Mass. (AP) – A firefighter stretched the bounds of duty by administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save a dog caught in a fire.Pixie, a 12-pound terrier crossbreed, was not breathing Tuesday when firefighters pulled her from a Salem home filled with smoke and flames.Pixie was “seizing,” with her back arched and mouth wide open. Firefighter […]

BOSTON (AP) – Her failing grade on the licensing test everyone must pass to teach in Massachusetts was a big problem for the aspiring Haverhill teacher. But Department of Education clerk Terrance Yancey Jr. was allegedly ready with a solution.“He indicated to her that, for a price, this could be fixed,” said Bob Bickerton, a […]

BOSTON (AP) – Soccer players would join the list of athletes required to wear helmets under legislation making its way through the Statehouse.The bill would cover teams from pee wee leagues to college teams. Professional soccer players, like the New England Revolution, would be exempt. No other state appears to have a soccer helmet law.Supporters […]

SALEM, Mass. (AP) – A firefighter stretched the bounds of duty by administering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to save a dog caught in a fire.Pixie, a 12-pound terrier crossbreed, was not breathing Tuesday when firefighters pulled her from a Salem home filled with smoke and flames.Pixie was “seizing,” with her back arched and mouth wide open. Firefighter […]