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Patients will suffer with closures of Steward Health Care hopsitals, staff says
When Christina Hernon was 5, her throat swelled shut from an infection and her mother rushed her to a local Massachusetts hospital in the dead of night. She couldn’t breathe, suffered a seizure and was near death when a doctor saved her by inserting a tube down her throat. Hernon is now an emergency physician at one of two hospitals…
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Trans teens file lawsuit challenging New Hampshire law banning them from girls' sports
The families of two transgender teens in New Hampshire filed a lawsuit Friday challenging a new state law that bans them from playing on girls’ sports teams at their public high schools. The issue of how to treat transgender athletes has been fiercely debated across the U.S. in recent years and has sparked numerous lawsuits. Two weeks ago, a...
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Vermont gets respite from flood warnings as US senator pushes for disaster aid
Vermont residents awakened Thursday to a quieter weather forecast with no flood warnings following another round of destructive storms, as a U.S. senator from the state asked Congress to pass a disaster aid package that would help communities across the country dealing with wildfires, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes. There were downpours Wednesday night in parts of Vermont and New...
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Gov. Scott calls on flood-weary Vermonters to ‘stick together' with more storms on the horizon
Vermont’s governor said Wednesday that the latest storm to the hit the state has undone much of the cleanup and recovery work the state has done since its last major bout of flooding only weeks ago, and he called on residents to “stick together” amid reports that more bad weather is on its way. Thunderstorms brought another round of...
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Running out of marijuana, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket get approval to ship pot to the islands
Martha’s Vineyard was running out of pot, just as thousands of summer vacationers were starting to arrive. But on Thursday, Massachusetts regulators averted a cannabis drought by issuing an administrative order that will allow pot to be transported to Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket islands for the first time. On Martha’s Vineyard, one dispensary temporarily closed in May after it...
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US Air Force veteran accused of having explicit images of a child enlists with Russian army
A U.S. Air Force veteran and former city councilor in Holyoke, Massachusetts, told his lawyer he joined Russia’s army after fleeing a charge of possessing sexually explicit images of a child.
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Backcountry skier dies in icy conditions on NH's Mt. Washington, 2 others hurt
A backcountry skier has died on New Hampshire’s Mount Washington in icy conditions, officials said Sunday. At least two people were rescued during a search that extended through a stormy night and into Sunday morning. The U.S. Forest Service identified the skier who died as Madison Saltsburg. She fell about 600 vertical feet (183 meters) on Saturday afternoon in very…
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NH town manager quits over anti-gay pressure: ‘My son is not an abomination'
Last year, a Littleton, New Hampshire, selectboard member said that “homosexuality is an abomination” and spoke of regulating art on public property, prompting a backlash and now the resignation of the town manager, whose late son was gay.
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Police officer who shot and killed NH teen was justified, report finds
A police officer’s deadly force was justified when he shot and killed a knife-wielding teenager with mental health issues on New Year’s Day, 2023, New Hampshire’s attorney general said Thursday. Two Gilford Police officers were responding to a 911 call from 17-year-old Mischa Pataski-Fay’s mother. She said she feared for the safety of her 86-year-old husband, who had locked...
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Australian Village Scorched by Wildfires Struggles With Loss
Ash Graham’s dog, Kozi, wakes him at 8 a.m., eager for his morning walk. Then Graham realizes he was dreaming, and gets up from the one-man tent he’s been sleeping in each night since a wildfire swept through his village on New Year’s Eve.
