Plainfield News

In This June 18, 2007, file photo, tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference in Plainfield, N.H. On Thursday July 9, 2009, the Browns were convicted on all counts of plotting to kill federal agents during a nine-month standoff at their fort-like home in rural New Hampshire.

After seven hours of deliberations, a jury in New Hampshire found convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown guilty again-- this time for plotting to kill federal agents.

Ed and Elaine Brown talk to reporters during a news conference in Plainfield, N.H., in this June 18, 2007 file photo.

CONCORD, N.H. - Convicted tax evader Ed Brown just "wanted to live" when he stockpiled guns and explosives at his home during a 2007 standoff, his defense lawyer said Wednesday during closing arguments in Brown's weapons and conspiracy trial.

New Hampshire tax evader Ed Brown took the stand Tuesday during his federal weapons trial, but he may not get a chance to continue.

The jury in the trial of Ed and Elaine Brown took a video tour of the couple's Plainfield, N.H., home, and an expert pointed out dozens of weapons prosecutors say the couple stored in the house.

Jurors in the trial of a tax-evading New Hampshire couple viewed video Wednesday of a vast arsenal that prosecutors say they stockpiled inside their turreted mountaintop home, including an improvised bomb on a kitchen shelf, next to the cookie jar.

Minutes before an undercover team of U.S. marshals captured Ed Brown on the front porch of his fortified Plainfield home, he told one of the agents officials wouldn't arrest him, according to the marshal, who testified at Brown's trial for conspiracy and weapons possession yesterday.

A federal agent told a jury on Thursday that he had tax evader Ed Brown in his rifle sight and was ready to pull the trigger the day of a failed raid on Brown's Plainfield, N.H., home two years ago.

A federal jury has begun hearing evidence against Edward and Elaine Brown, the New Hampshire couple accused of stockpiling weapons to keep federal agents at bay after they were convicted of tax evasion.

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A jury has been selected for the weapons and explosives trial of the New Hampshire couple convicted two years ago of tax evasion.

A couple accused of holing up in their Plainfield, N.H., home to avoid serving time for tax evasion are about to go on trial again.

For nearly nine months, Ed and Elaine Brown holed up in their fortified concrete Plainfield home, surrounded by supporters and supplies, and railed against the federal government.

Retired exterminator Ed Brown and his dentist wife Elaine holed up on a mountaintop in their turreted concrete castle, protected by an arsenal of homemade bombs, booby traps, semiautomatic assault-type rifles and a cache of 60,000 rounds of ammunition - all aimed at federal agents.The couple, convicted in 2007 of not paying federal taxes on nearly ...

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center officials are urging state legislators to restore a portion of the $10 million the hospital may lose in state Medicaid funding due to budget cuts, according to Frank McDougall, DHMC vice president for government relations.

Elaine Brown's standby attorney has asked the federal judge in her conspiracy and weapons case to order an evaluation of her competency to stand trial, arguing that she shows signs of delusions and is controlled by her husband and co-defendant, Ed Brown.

House and Senate negotiators reached yesterday agreement on a compromise gay-marriage bill amendment aimed at winning a signature by Gov.

The federal court in New Hampshire has asked for nearly triple its usual jury pool to select jurors in a conspiracy and weapons case against convicted tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown.

Gov. John Lynch, D-N.H., will sign the same-sex marriage bill passed by the state legislature on May 6 if it is amended to explicitly prevent religious institutions from being forced to perform same-sex ceremonies, the governor announced on Thursday.