Swanzey News

Voters in more than a dozen communities will be asked at Town Meeting to instruct the state's congressional delegation to launch a "new and independent" investigation in the Sept.

Keene resident Gerhard Bedding doesn't buy the government's version of what happened on Sept.

For 20 years The Edge Ensemble has staged well-crafted and meticulously performed small cast comedies and dramas.

" A 19-year-old Hinsdale resident who is accused of shooting his friend in the leg during a car ride in November was a no-show for an arraignment Wednesday at Milford District Court.

THE FIRST SHOCK of cold water knocks the wind out of you. Clothes that were once warm and comforting become a suit of icy pins and needles.

Their search has stretched more than nine months. All unemployed and hunting for work, advertising their skills, personalities and experience in "employment wanted" ads that ran in this newspaper.

Police are investigating an early morning crash on Route 12 that sent two people to the hospital, one by helicopter.

Police used a stun gun to subdue a man Wednesday afternoon following a car stop and brief foot chase.

A local resident who joined the Marines shortly after high school died in Iraq on Sunday, sparking grief among childhood friends and sending his mother on a long trip to Delaware to claim his body.

Police are seeking public help to find a man wanted for allegedly robbing two people at gunpoint last week.

The case against former Zorn Dining Commons and Sodexo employee, Paul Paltrineri, is mounting in Keene courts.

Authorities have arrested three people at a motel in Keene, N.H., on drug charges.

Laine Rooney, 11, of Exeter, was named the Grand Champion of her division at the 2009 New Hampshire Equitation and Hunter Finals Sept.

The general manager of the Zorn Dining Commons has been arrested and placed on administrative leave of absence after his involvement in a stabbing incident last week.

Taking a 13,000-foot plunge from an airplane will earn most jumpers a certificate.

NEW YORK CITY a ' Half the respondents of a new poll say taxing the richest Americans by at least 50 percent is a great idea, while more than a third consider Twitter a fad that will likely fade.

A 92-year-old New Hampshire woman said she jumped out of a plane at 13,000 feet to "just try something different for a change." Jane Bockstruck of Swanzey said she does not know exactly what inspired her to go skydiving Sept.

Eight-year-old Alex Tavares was rummaging in a bin of $2 action figures. There were familiar monsters, famous superheroes and a variety of caped, fanged and deformed figures familiar to comics devotees.

Swanzey resident Jane Bockstruck tells The Keene Sentinel newspaper she doesn't know what overcame her when she decided to take the parachute jump.

A man who was a local coach, served on the board of the local soup kitchen and advised a college sorority is the same man who dropped his kids off at a neighbor's house Wednesday afternoon, drove to his wife's apartment, took out a knife and started stabbing, according to court documents and officials.