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MANCHESTER, N.H. - Passenger trains move people around quickly, efficiently and safely.

A Chestnut Street man who was arraigned yesterday on charges he robbed a Main Street convenience store at gunpoint July 2 has allegedly admitted to other crimes.

A judge has ruled that an alleged confession by a man accused of killing a police officer cannot be used during his capital murder trial.

Police said that Carlene Balderrama used her husband's high-powered rifle to kill herself Tuesday afternoon, shortly after faxing the letter at 2:30 p.m. The mortgage company called police, who found ...

A State Police trooper is being sued in federal court for the 2005 shooting death of Preston Johnson.

Police arrested a 36-year-old Massachusetts man Tuesday in connection with the burglary of a local residence.

He read the paperwork for his money-market mutual fund. What he found there made him more nervous, because the fund included a lot of paper from Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae .

WINDHAM, N.H. Police in New Hampshire say they have captured the foot fetish bandit who has been assaulting local women at fitness centers, CBS station WBZ-TV in Boston reports.

Health and Care Minister Ivan Lewis today announced the sites that will benefit from 80million of Government funding to build extra care housing, enabling more older people and those with dementia and long-term ...

A Quincy man was charged in the hit-and-run death of an Easton man, days after the suspect's brother was charged in the man's death, according to the Patriot Ledger.

Although no New Hampshire jury has ever found a defendant not guilty by reason of insanity in a homicide trial, there have been numerous cases in which a judge accepted an insanity-plea agreement, ultimately ...

When Cohasset Police Chief James Hussey transitioned to the South Shore from Boston in 2004, making the move from a large department was, he said, like entering "a totally different world" - one that had its ...

The United States Attorney's Office will hold a press conference at 3 p.m. Friday at the Lowell Police Training Center at Cross Point Towers to make an announcement regarding federal and state charges against ...

The Massachusetts Senate voted yesterday to repeal a 1913 law used to bar out-of-state gay couples from marrying in the state, a law that critics say was originally aimed at interracial marriages.

Barack Obama is planning to spend part of his 47th birthday in Massachusetts. The Democratic presidential contender will visit Boston on Aug.

A 29-year-old Webster woman wanted for allegedly beating her 8-year-old stepdaughter for nearly nine hours was arrested yesterday afternoon in Florida after she emerged from a friend's home, according to the ...

Forty-four-year-old Stephen Butler of Brockton, Mass., pleaded guilty in March to robbing the Manchester, N.H., Vista Foods Store, as well as the various businesses and banks in Massachusetts.

Farm Aid, the nation's longest-running benefit concert, will be held this year in New England for the first time.

Lawmakers yesterday said they will work to undo tens of millions of dollars of cuts by Gov.

The attorney for a state senator accused of accosting four women in one day said following a court hearing Wednesday his client has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder, a mental condition that can cause severe ...