A New Hampshire man now charged with holding down a teenage boy during a rape at a youth detention center had been fired years earlier.
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‘Anxious to see you:’ JFK letters to Swedish lover go up for auction
John F. Kennedy met Gunilla von Post several weeks before he married Jacqueline Bouvier in 1953.
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Massachusetts shoe company executive pleads guilty to embezzling $30 million
He embezzled the money from a nearly 140-year-old company by writing checks to himself from company bank accounts and transferring funds from company accounts to his personal accounts and to another person.
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How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Among other legislation, the Senate has passed a resolution condemning the horrific shootings in Atlanta on March 16.
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Coast Guard rescues 5 from burning fishing trawler
A helicopter picked up the fishermen 85 miles east of Cape Cod.
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Driver in crash that killed 7 motorcyclists appeals to New Hampshire supreme court
Volodymyr Zhukovskyy of Massachusetts is being held without bail. His trial is scheduled for November.
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Statues to hatchet-wielding colonist reconsidered in New Hampshire, Massachusetts
Critics say the story of Hannah Duston was first used as propaganda against Native Americans in New England and then served the same purpose as the U.S. expanded west in the 1800s.
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Man rescued from abandoned Vermont copper mine shaft
He suffered serious injuries and was considerably hypothermic after the 150-foot fall, according to rescuers.
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Help Wanted: In pandemic, worry about finding summer workers
American embassies and consulates remain closed or severely short-staffed in many countries and there are myriad reasons why U.S. citizens aren’t rushing to respond to the job boom.
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Judge tosses suit that sought to block transgender athletes in Connecticut
Conservative lawmakers in more than 20 states have introduced legislation to ban or limit transgender athletes from competing on teams or sports that align with their gender identity.