Sunday 20th May, 2012
New fund to help displaced Vt. mobile-home owners
BERLIN, Vt. (AP) -- Glenn French and his wife lost their mobile home and much of its contents when floodwaters from Tropical Storm Irene ripped through Weston's Mobile Home park in ...
New 1940 US census records show black undercount
By CRISTIAN SALAZAR and DEEPTI HAJELA and RANDY HERSCHAFTAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - As a teenager, tennis legend Althea Gibson played paddle tennis on the streets of her New York City ...
Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling facts
By BY KEVIN BEGOSAssociated Press PITTSBURGH (AP) - Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't. Geisinger Health Systems ...
Conn. subsidies seen spurring home solar power
Channel 3 NewsBy STEPHEN SINGERAP Business Writer HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut officials hope to boost solar power in homes across the state with a subsidy for homeowners and solar businesses. Solar ...
NY trial of ex-P&G, Goldman board member starts
Channel 3 NewsBy TOM HAYSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - The insider trading trial of a former board member for Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble begins Monday in New York with jury selection. Rajat Gupta ...
For NY farmers, fracking means salvation or ruin
Channel 3 NewsBy MARY ESCHAssociated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Some New York farmers look across the Susquehanna River, see the flares of Pennsylvania gas wells and think of the money they're losing as ...
News Minute: Latest Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont news from The Associated Press
Channel 3 NewsMAINE: AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine's highway death toll is up by more than 50% so far this year. State officials say there have been 47 vehicular fatalities so far in 2012, up from 30 at this ...
Celebration toasts new Vt-NY bridge across lake
Channel 3 NewsBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Cannon fire and a march by thousands of people marked the grand re-opening of the new $$76 million bridge across Lake Champlain. The bridge opened to traffic in November, but ...
Lockerbie families relieved at death of man blamed
Channel 3 NewsBy MEERA SELVA and VERENA DOBNIKAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Families of Pan Am Flight 103 passengers who died when the plane exploded over Scotland more than two decades ago say they're ...
Vt town cracks down on scofflaw bicyclists
Boston.comWarden says his department is not out to get bicyclists, but it's gotten to the point where police had to do something to make sure no one gets ...
Vermont State Police plan sobriety checkpoints
Channel 3 NewsMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont State Police and other law enforcement agencies will be conducting sobriety and vehicle safety checkpoints within Caledonia and Essex counties. Between Sunday and ...
Cuomo announces $15 M to help energy companies
Channel 3 NewsALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The state is providing $15 million to that will help companies develop high-technology energy products and jobs. Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the money will be divided among three ...
Chinese activist who fled house arrest lands in US
Channel 3 NewsBy KAREN MATTHEWSAssociated Press NEW YORK (AP) - Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng (chuhn gwahng-chuhng) says everybody should fight against injustice. Chen arrived Saturday evening at ...
Green groups hail Vt. hydraulic fracturing ban
Channel 3 NewsMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont environmental groups are applauding the Legislature and Gov. Peter Shumlin for making the state the first to ban a controversial natural gas drilling technique called ...
Leahy, Sanders call for better sunscreen labeling
Channel 3 NewsMONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont's two U.S. senators are joining four others from New England and New York in calling for better labeling of sunscreen. Sens. Patrick Leahy and Bernie Sanders ...
New itineraries added to northern NH website
Channel 3 NewsCONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A monthly signature event and a featured itinerary are among the new offerings on a website promoting northern New Hampshire's attractions. This month's event ...
NH panel to meet over school funding amendment
Channel 3 NewsCONCORD, N.H. (AP) - House and Senate negotiators are opening formal talks Tuesday on a proposed change to the New Hampshire Constitution to shift more control over public school funding from the ...
Purple traps being set up in NH trees for insect
Channel 3 NewsCONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire agriculture officials are telling people who love to walk in the woods that they'll be seeing a lot of purple this summer. Purple prism traps resembling box ...
UNH photo exhibit combines horses, literature
Channel 3 NewsDURHAM, N.H. (AP) - A new photo exhibit at the University of New Hampshire highlights horses from mythology, literature and closer to home. The university's Dimond Library and the UNH Equine ...
Comptroller invests pension fund in NY businesses
Channel 3 NewsALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli (duh-NAP-oh-lee) says his office has invested nearly $600 million from the massive public worker pension fund in New York companies since 2001. ...
University of Vermont's global push begins in China
Burlington Free PressUniversity of Vermont sophomores (from left) Sherlock Pang, 21, Albert Chang, 19, and Kasey Leng, 19, hail from China and enjoy studying amongst a different and diversified culture. / EMILY ...
Cab driver reports armed robbery
Burlington Free PressA 23-year-old male taxi driver told Burlington police he was robbed by two black males wearing dark clothing and ski masks near Pine Street and Lyman Avenue just after 2 a.m. ...
Knee surgery stats prompt changes at US hospitals
Channel 3 NewsBy HOLLY RAMERAssociated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire's Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is changing the way it handles knee replacement surgeries based on the results of a ...
APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight
Boston.comTwenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws ...
Kristen Wiig gets an emotional sendoff from 'SNL'
Channel 3 NewsNEW YORK (AP) - Kristen Wiig has gotten a musical sendoff on the season finale of "Saturday Night Live" as the versatile cast member makes her exit after seven years. In the show's ...
Protesters prepare for larger NATO demonstration
Channel 3 NewsBy JIM SUHR and ROBERT RAYAssociated Press CHICAGO (AP) - Protesters gathering in Chicago for the NATO summit are gearing up for their largest demonstration. Thousands are expected to march later ...
Vt police blame texting on crash into cruiser
Channel 3 NewsRUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - Vermont police say a 33-year-old motorist was distracted while writing a text message on his cellphone when he crashed into a police car. Vermont State Police say Jesse Clayton ...
A 'lifeline' reconnected: Residents on both sides of new Lake Champlain Bridge cheer its reopening
Burlington Free PressLindsay Harris: "Retail sales of raw milk are legal in other states including Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Vermont is behind the curve on ...
Bondsman subdues suspect in Old North End
Burlington Free PressAn employee with the Northeast Fugitive Recovery Task Force holds down a bloodied suspect at Walnut and Archibald streets. / MICHAEL TOWNSEND, Free ...
Bridge reconnects communities with each other
Channel 3 NewsLake Champlain Bridge - The party stretches across state lines and Lake Champlain Saturday night as two communities celebrate reconnecting with each other and history.More than two years ago, the ...
Silent auction brings healing
Channel 3 NewsLEBANON, N.H. - A silent auction Saturday at Lebanon High School in memory of a murdered teacher. Businesses and communities members throughout the Upper Valley donated the items for the auction. ...
Tenants move into former Vermont cheese plant
Channel 3 NewsHINESBURG, Vt. - HINESBURG, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont cheese-making plant that closed down after a fire four years ago is getting some new life with two new businesses that are opening in its place. A ...
Driver crashes into Battery Park
Channel 3 NewsBURLINGTON, Vt. - A suspected drunk driver caused quite a mess in Battery Park early Saturday morning. Police say 23 year old Yuri Kapriyelov failed to negotiate a turn at the intersection of ...
Cab driver robbed in Burlington
Channel 3 NewsBURLINGTON, Vt. - Police say armed gunmen robbed a Burlington cab driver. The cabby told Burlington police two gunman robbed him near the intersection of Pine Street and Lyman Avenue just after ...
Boston U student driver remembers 'best friend'
Channel 3 NewsWELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - The 20-year-old Boston University student who was driving a minivan that crashed on a rural New Zealand road earlier this month, killing 3 of his classmates, is ...
NYC's council speaker weds longtime partner
Channel 3 NewsNEW YORK (AP) - New York City council speaker Christine Quinn has married her longtime partner Kim Catullo in a private ceremony in Manhattan. The city council's first openly gay speaker and ...
Vt. journalist writes book on Lowell wind project
Boston.comBARTON, Vt.- A Vermont journalist who has covered the heated debate over a wind power project being built on northern Vermont's Lowell Mountain has written a book about the project and ...
White House acclaims exit of activist from China
Channel 3 NewsCAMP DAVID, Md. (AP) - The White House has welcomed the arrangement allowing a blind Chinese activist to leave Beijing and fly to the United States with his wife and two sons. Ben Rhodes, deputy ...
Dozens of dogs seized from home of NY woman
Channel 3 NewsWALLKILL, N.Y. (AP) - Authorities have seized dozens of dogs from a woman accused of animal cruelty, but are trying to find shelters for another 31 still living on her Orange County property. ...
New England editorial roundup
Boston.comA comprehensive new national poll of America's 18- to 29-year-olds -- the millenials -- shows a generation increasingly disillusioned with politics and cynical about the ability or willingness ...
NY inmate, released by accident, back behind bars
Channel 3 Newshttp://bit.ly/Kxxc8p ) that inmate Paris Williams was freed from the Erie County Holding Center on Thursday after a records mix-up. The jail's deputy superintendent told the newspaper that ...
NY kid, 4, helps save choking brother
Channel 3 NewsAMITYVILLE, N.Y. (AP) - They talked about calling 911 in Grace Varley's prekindergarten class. She must have been listening. The 4-year-old Long Island girl calmly dialed for help Wednesday ...
Vermont library gets grant for new bookmobile
Boston.comLYNDONVILLE, Vt.- A northern Vermont library is getting a new bookmobile after its old one bit the dust, a victim of age and budget ...
Huge survey aims to get read on Northeast boating
Channel 3 NewsBy JAY LINDSAYAssociated Press BOSTON (AP) - A major survey is aiming to get a handle on the reach and economic impacts of recreational boating in the Northeast, so the activity gets proper ...
NY museum scrambling to find helium for balloon
Channel 3 NewsBy CAROLYN THOMPSONAssociated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - A helium shortage is threatening to deflate a western New York museum's plans for the July 4 launch of a manned balloon like the ones ...
Vt. resort gets green award for stream cleanup
Channel 3 NewsBURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Vermont's Sugarbush resort has won a Governor's Award for Environmental Excellence for its work to restore nearby waterways. Sugarbush hired an environmental ...
Bicycle-fleeing bank robber nabbed in NH
Channel 3 NewsBERWICK, Maine (AP) - A Maine man is facing charges after allegedly robbing a bank and making his getaway on a bicycle. Police in Somersworth, N.H., say they arrested 46-year-old Scott Marshall of ...
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