NASHUA - There's a cliché in the criminal justice system that each case is different.Some, however, are more different than others. On Tuesday, prosecutors began presenting evidence against a Greenville farmer and former town treasurer accused of having sexual relations with a 12-year-old girl in 2001. | Full Story

Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. There are many simple pleasures in life, but very few holidays that give you license to celebrate more than one at a time. | Full Story

The intersection of Pine and Ledge Streets will remain closed to vehicle traffic today, while work continues on the Labine Building, which was heavily damaged by fire Sunday, police report. Officials said Monday they expected at least part of the building would need to be torn down, but officials had no information this morning on whether the rest would be left standing, or completely demolished. | Full Story

LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) - A member of a BMW car club who was out driving with other BMW enthusiasts when he struck and killed a woman walking her dog has been convicted of motor vehicle homicide. David Conant was convicted in Fitchburg District Court on Monday after a two-day bench trial of striking 54-year-old Elizabeth Powers McCaffrey in November 2008 just yards from her Leominster home. | Full Story

PORTSMOUTH HERALD - A Boston grandmother had been smoking crack Friday night before the car she was riding in crashed into a Seabrook police cruiser, sped up Route 1 at 100 mph, then crashed into a tree on Elwyn Road, police allege. The grandmother, Monique Sadberry, 40, of 16 Akron St., Roxbury, Mass. | Full Story

KEENE SENTINEL - A Keene man was charged with drunken driving after hitting two elderly women in a crosswalk on Main Street in Marlborough, police said.Doris Wilcox, 79, and Sheryl Robinson, 80, both of Marlborough, were leaving the Federated Church Ladies Group meeting and were crossing Main Street when they were struck by a vehicle driven by Terance L. LaClair, 59. | Full Story

CONCORD MONITOR - State hospitals and health care providers are still calculating the impact of impending cuts to their funding. But, they warn, providers will not shoulder the cuts alone. Eventually, the cost of the services will be borne by average people through higher insurance premiums. | Full Story

From a spectator standpoint, it might be New Hampshire’s most overlooked and underrated high school sporting event. The NHIAA Indoor Track Championships, conducted Sunday at Dartmouth College, couldn’t have been more compelling, especially for the five local teams involved in the battle for Class championships, with three of those four titles coming down to the final race. Each of the three was decided by two points or less and came down to one event – the 4x200 meter relay on a 200-meter track – that is the perfect finishing act. | Full Story

NASHUA – For the better part of two weeks, the system was working perfectly for the Souhegan High School boys ice hockey team. But on Monday night, the Sabers strayed from that system, at perhaps the worst possible time. Souhegan’s 6-5 loss to John Stark of Weare at Conway Arena may have ramifications down the road. | Full Story

BOYS HOCKEY MERRIMACK 8, KEENE 0 David Downie and Chris Kinney scored two goals each and both assisted on another as Merrimack High School cruised to an 8-0 win over Keene at the West Side Arena in Manchester. Cal Lezama also had two goals for the Tomahawks, while Chris Fortin and Tyler Caron (one assist) chipped in with one goal each. Rutger Tupper, Pat Parker, Erik Glendye (two) and Dominic Valluzzi (two) all recorded assists. | Full Story

Bishop Guertin High School had an impressive showing at Monday’s Division I State Meet, as the Cardinals finished third out of 17 teams at Mount Sunapee in Newbury. Keene won the title with a team score of 749.5 with Exeter (743) and the Cardinals (712) finishing just behind. | Full Story

Today BOYS ALPINE SKIING Merrimack, South, BG and North at State Meet, Mount Sunapee, 9 a.m. Milford, Souhegan at State Meet, Waterville Valley, 10 a. | Full Story

BOSTON – Boston College and Boston University are separated by less than 4 miles along the Green Line trolley tracks and precious little on the red and blue lines of a hockey rink. BC won the 2008 NCAA title. BU won in ‘09. | Full Story

WASHINGTON – A critical safety net for babies – that heelprick of blood taken from every newborn – is facing an ethics attack. After those tiny blood spots are tested for a list of devastating diseases, some states are storing them for years. Scientists consider the leftover samples a treasure, both to improve newborn screening and to study bigger questions, like which environmental toxins can harm a fetus’ developing heart or which genes trigger childhood cancers. | Full Story

HARRISBURG, Pa. – Rep. John Murtha, a retired Marine Corps officer who became the first Vietnam War combat veteran elected to Congress and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq War, died Monday. | Full Story

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – The world’s tallest skyscraper has unexpectedly closed to the public a month after its lavish opening, disappointing tourists headed for the observation deck and casting doubt over plans to welcome its first permanent occupants in the coming weeks. Electrical problems are at least partly to blame for the closure of the Burj Khalifa’s viewing platform – the only part of the half-mile high tower open yet. But a lack of information from the spire’s owner left it unclear whether the rest of the largely empty building was affected by the shutdown. | Full Story

JERUSALEM – The women tattooed his name and portrait on their bodies and gave their children his name – Savior. They spoon-fed the bearded, one-time healer as if he were royalty, brushed his shoulder-length white locks, sent him text messages when they were ovulating and slept with him at his bidding. They turned over wages and welfare payments to him and lived in cramped, rundown Tel Aviv apartments with the children they bore him. | Full Story

NASHUA – The city fire marshal on Monday continued to investigate the cause of a weekend fire that severely damaged a three-story building at 45 Pine St., though fire officials said the blaze did not appear to be suspicious. The fire appeared to have gutted the top two stories of the 110-year-old brick Labine building, but there was no official word yet on whether the entire structure would have to be demolished. | Full Story

NASHUA – Mayor Donnalee Lozeau urged the Board of Education to keep in mind the sacrifices she is asking other city departments to make to lessen the impact of the School District’s financial woes next year. The night before board members are expected to begin suggesting revisions to Superintendent Mark Conrad’s $93.3 million proposed spending plan for next year, Lozeau met with the board to ask them to make the difficult decisions that will have to be made in order for the city to stay under the spending cap. | Full Story

MERRIMACK – Getting voter feedback on the School District budget hasn’t always been a piece of cake. “Outside of flying an airplane with a banner, I’ve done everything I could to try to encourage the public to come out and let us know what they think,” said Stan Heinrich, Budget Committee chairman. “But they rarely showed up. | Full Story

LYNDEBORUGH – It was supposed to be a joint training exercise on finding lost hikers on Winn Mountain with local emergency services and the Milford National Guard unit. But the drill quickly turned into the real thing when the fire department got word that National Guardsmen suffered hypothermia on the mountain overnight. “We wanted to try our new off-road skills and new vehicles and simulate a rescue on Winn Mountain,” Fire Chief Rick McQuade said Monday. | Full Story

LITCHFIELD – The search for a school superintendent ends where it began. Elaine Cutler will not retire at the end of the school year, and will stay on as superintendent until at least summer of 2011. Cutler reversed her decision after the School Board asked her to reconsider, she said. | Full Story

FairPoint Communications says it will continue with the rollout of high-speed Internet service throughout New Hampshire as it emerges from bankruptcy, although there will be some delays in more rural areas. The company and New Hampshire regulators have also agreed that FairPoint can avoid paying roughly $6 million in fines occurred because it failed to meet service obligations last year, as long as it doesn’t fall short of any more of them this year. Those details are part of a plan of reorganization released this morning by the company, along with a disclosure statement detailing how it will restructure its $2. | Full Story

NASHUA - Police will be reviewing footage from security cameras as they investigate an apparent road rage shooting Saturday night, an investigator said. Police also are urging anyone with information on the incident to call the department at 594-3500, or the anonymous Crimeline at 589-1665. A Nashua man was shot in the arm as he drove over the Taylor Falls Bridge, which crosses the Merrimack River from Hudson to Nashua, at about 9 p. | Full Story

HUDSON - A Hudson woman is accused of fighting with an officer who was arresting her on a drunken driving charge, police report. Officer Michael Davis subdued Kimberly Coulter, 45, with a burst of pepper spray, though she later kicked and spat at another officer while medics treated her from its effects, police report. Coulter was taken into custody on charges of DWI, second offense; resisting arrest; simple assault and attempted assault. | Full Story

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – Endeavour and six astronauts rocketed into orbit Monday on what’s likely the last nighttime launch for the shuttle program, hauling a new room and observation deck for the International Space Station. The space shuttle took flight before dawn, igniting the sky with a brilliant flash seen for miles around. The weather finally cooperated: Thick, low clouds that had delayed a first launch attempt Sunday returned, but then cleared away just in time. | Full Story

Welcome to the Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays, historical observances, etc., we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. Sometime between the late night hours of Feb. | Full Story

NASHUA - At least part of the 110-year-old Labine Building will have to be torn down after a five-alarm fire gutted it this weekend, fire and building officials said this morning.Investigators have yet to pin down exactly where or how the fire started, Fire Chief Brian Morrissey said this morning, but it appears to have started between the basement and first floor, and looks likely to be accident, he said. "It doesn't appear suspicious," he said. | Full Story

The Saints? It’s a new day for the National Football League. Its ambassador, Peyton Manning – who, let’s face it, the league’s powers-that-be love – wasn’t holding up the Vince Lombardi Trophy late Sunday evening, confetti flying around him. | Full Story

PRESS RELEASE - Attorney General Michael Delaney announced that state negotiators and FairPoint Communications have reached an agreement addressing FairPoint's future commitments to consumers in New Hampshire. The agreement largely leaves intact the major provisions of the 2008 Public Utilities Commission Order authorizing the transfer of assets from Verizon Communications to FairPoint Communications.The agreement was filed earlier today with the U. | Full Story

HUDSON - A woman was injured in a single vehicle, rollover crash on the Exit Two connector road early Saturday morning, police said.The crash took place around 2 a.m. | Full Story

WINDHAM – A couple celebrating their wedding anniversary by going away for a mountain getaway, came back to find that a Sunday morning fire had severely damaged their home and killed their pets, according to a Windham Fire Department spokesperson. Authorities said a next-door neighbor called the Fire Department shortly after 9 a.m. | Full Story

HUDSON - A local woman was transported to a Boston hospital early Sunday morning after a crash on the connecting ramp between the F.E. Everett Turnpike and Lowell Road, according to state police. | Full Story

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire's Legislative Ethics Committee meets Thursday to discuss issuing a letter of caution to a state lawmaker accused of using improper influence to win a railroad lease. | Full Story

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - Senate Finance Chairman Lou D'Allesandro has tried unsuccessfully a dozen times in as many years to get reluctant New Hampshire lawmakers to expand gambling. | Full Story

MIAMI, Fla. (AP) – Who Dat won the Super Bowl? The New Orleans Saints, that’s who. | Full Story

HANOVER – For every miracle victory, there’s a heartbreaking defeat, and a pair of area teams figured in both at Sunday’s Class I-M-S Indoor Track and Field Championships at Dartmouth College’s Leverone Field House. For the Souhegan High School boys the Class I title, which they would share with track power Lebanon, came totally out of the blue. Everyone knew Souhegan senior Michael Peret was capable of outscoring most teams all by himself. | Full Story

At Dartmouth College GIRLS TEAM RESULTS 1. Lebanon 53. 2. | Full Story

Girls basketball Trinity 42, Nashua North 36 NASHUA - The Nashua North girls basketball fought back from an ice cold start but couldn’t climb all of the way out of a deep hole as Trinity of Manchester held on for a 42-36 win Sunday. Trinity raced to a 16-3 lead in the first eight minutes before the Titans, now 8-4, recovered and began chipping away. But the Pioneers recovered in the final quarter to put the game away,. | Full Story

HANOVER – Sunday’s Class L Indoor Track Championships at Dartmouth College was a decidedly green event. But it had nothing to do with the environment or the colors and nickname of the host school, Dartmouth College. No, turning everything green at Leverone Field House on Sunday afternoon were the boys and girls track teams from Bishop Guertin. | Full Story

At Dartmouth College BOYS TEAM RESULTS 1. Bishop Guertin 80. 2. | Full Story

Towns and their employees aren’t finding it easy to agree on contracts these days. At least three area towns – Hollis, Milford and Amherst – have reached impasses with some unions and taken the matter to fact-finders, and in at least one instance, the contract is going before voters. In Hollis, a fact-finder’s report recommends that the town and the union representing Police, Fire and Communication Department employees accept a three-year contract, retroactive to April 1, 2009, that provides for step increases and cost of living adjustments. | Full Story

BOSTON – The Telegraph and its affiliated weekly newspaper, The Cabinet, won top honors at the New England Newspaper and Press Association’s annual better newspaper awards banquet Saturday night at the Park Plaza in Boston. The Telegraph was awarded first place in general excellence in the small daily newspaper category, while The Cabinet won first place for general excellence in the large weekly category. “A solid paper from start to finish,” wrote the judges in commenting on The Telegraph. | Full Story

Twelve-year-old Dakota Davidson, of Hollis, couldn’t wait to spend the night outside in the woods this past weekend, sleeping in a tent in subfreezing temperatures. He’s a Boy Scout – one of 13,000 in the state and 4 million in the country. And like so many other Scouts, Dakota was counting down the minutes until his next scouting adventure – in this case the annual Klondike Derby at Lone Pine Hunters Club in Hollis. | Full Story

NASHUA – Greater Nashua hasn’t been the safest place for certain Acura and Honda car models over the past year, and police want to know who’s responsible. Eleven Acura Integras and Honda Civics have been stolen, stripped of their parts and dumped in Nashua over the past year. Three more were taken in Nashua and disposed in Massachusetts, according to Nashua police Sgt. | Full Story

AMHERST – Are those old books you found in your grandmother’s attic rare first editions or just interesting? At 7 p.m. | Full Story

Tuesday Tick talk According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 400,000 people may contract Lyme disease each year. That’s more than 10 times the number of those who will contract AIDS and West Nile Virus combined. Step inside the world of chronic Lyme disease patients at a free screening of the award-winning documentary “Under Our Skin” at 6:30 p. | Full Story

George Pessotti was 31 years old, lying on his back and shouting to his wife, Anne, “Are the kids safe? Are they out of the house?” Every window on the first floor had blown out. | Full Story

NASHUA - A pre-dawn fire Sunday appeared to have destroyed an historic Pine Street building that housed a private social club, a convenience store and seven apartments. The fire appeared to have gutted the second and third levels of a 1900s building at 45 Pine St. The building also housed Club Social and the P&J Mini Market. | Full Story

By Keith Glantz and Russell Culver Game Money Line Indianapolis -220 New Orleans +180 1st Half Wagering Only — Game Line Indianapolis -3 New Orleans +3 1st Half Wagering Only — Over/Under Total 27 2nd Half Wagering Only — Game Line Indianapolis -3 New Orleans +3 2nd Half Wagering Only — Over/Under Total 30 1st Quarter Wagering Only — Game Line Indianapolis -½ +100 New Orleans +½ -120 2nd Quarter Wagering Only — Game Line Indianapolis -½ -125 New Orleans +½ +105 3rd Quarter Wagering Only — Game Line Indianapolis -½ -110 New Orleans +½ -110 4th Quarter Wagering Only — Game Line Indianapolis -½ +100 New Orleans +½ -120 1st Quarter Wagering Only — Over/Under Total 10½ 2nd Quarter Wagering Only — Over/Under Total 14½ ov -145 3rd Quarter Wagering Only — Over/Under Total 13 4th Quarter Wagering Only — Over/Under Total 14 ov -125 Total Points Scored by Indianapolis Over 31 Under 31 Total Points Scored by New Orleans Over 25½ Under 25½ Team to Score First Indianapolis -135 New Orleans +115 Team to Score First in the 2nd Half Indianapolis -125 New Orleans +105 Team to Score Last Indianapolis -125 New Orleans +105 First Scoring Play of Game Indianapolis Play New Orleans 5-2 Field Goal 5-1 7-2 TD Pass 7-2 4-1 TD Run 3-1 25-1 TD Other-x 25-1 100-1 Safety 100-1 x-Any touchdown not including rushing and passing from scrimmage Last Scoring Play of Game Indianapolis Play New Orleans 7-2 Field Goal 6-1 3-1 TD Pass 5-2 4-1 TD Run 5-1 25-1 TD Other-x 25-1 100-1 Safety 100-1 x-Any touchdown not including rushing and passing from scrimmage does not include PAT conversions | Full Story

Hollis/Brookline High School hockey coach Tim Clark got the call early one night during the recent midterm exam week. It was one of his freshman defensemen, Karlie Kobylarz, calling to say she couldn’t make practice because she had to study. And that would be the same for her brothers, Jake and Zac. | Full Story

HENNIKER – The first of three Buddy Warner League Central Division Qualifier meets is in the books and five skiers from the Crotched Mountain Junior Race Team are in excellent position to advance to the state championships to be held in March. Currently four Crotched Mountain racers are all in second place in their respective divisions after the slalom race held at Pats Peak on Jan. 24. | Full Story

The Nashua Catholic Junior High School wrestling team won the Tri-County Middle School League Division II (small school) championship last weekend, while the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Nashua’s teams at Nashua’s three public middle schools placed third, fourth and fifth in Division I (large schools). Four Nashua Catholic wrestlers won individual conference championships: Ryan Szczgelski (85-pound class); Marcel Laplante (100); Connor Sullivan (115); and Joe Chimelski (140). Runners-up in their weight classes from Nashua Catholic included Evan Manns (150) and Jakob Rupp (130). | Full Story

Nashua Bantam I goes 0-2 The Nashua Panthers I lost to the Manchester Flames 6-1 and Winchester 4-2. Scoring against the Flames was Jake Latham with an assist from Joe Williams. Nick Lauren and Paul Callahan stood tall defensively in front of goalie Zach Rappala. | Full Story

HUDSON – Voters at Saturday’s annual Deliberative Session overwhelmingly endorsed an amended warrant article that would give local police a 3 percent cost of living raise for each of two years beginning in 2011. That proposal and 14 other warrant articles still require approval from voters at the March 9 town election. But selectmen and the municipal budget committee backed the measure for the police contract at special meetings immediately following the session. | Full Story

MILFORD – Voters will see 29 warrant articles on the ballot when they go to the polls in March following the Milford Deliberative Session at the Town Hall auditorium on Saturday. According to the Supervisors of the Checklist, exactly 100 Milford residents attended to discuss numerous issues over the 51⁄2-hour meeting, which decided the wording of all measures to be voted upon by Milford voters in March with the exclusion of zoning variances and the election of officers. The first contentious topic of the day was Article 4, an article that would allow the town spend up to $850,000 to purchase four pieces of property between Nashua, School and Pine streets in order to transform the current fire station into a combined fire and ambulance facility. | Full Story

LITCHFIELD – Voters who attended the school district budget deliberative session on Saturday could have altered the proposed $20.53 operating budget, but after close to three hours of discussion, questions and attempts to modify two the four warrant articles that will appear on the March 9 ballot, they agreed to leave well enough alone. “It’s a really lean budget, and it would make me very nervous to take any more from it,” Superintendent Elaine Cutler told the School Board, Finance Committee, and roughly 100 residents who met in the auditorium at Campbell High School on Saturday. | Full Story

A man was shot in the arm as he drove across the Merrimack River into Nashua on Saturday night. Police were called to the Taylor Falls Bridge shortly before 9 p.m. | Full Story

The Stadium • Sun Life Stadium – 2269 Dan Marino Blvd., Miami Gardens, Fla. • 555 tickets were still available Friday for $1,464-$8,025. | Full Story

NASHUA – Six years of incremental budget cuts have left the state’s mental health centers on the brink of financial catastrophe, according to mental health experts. They worry that more cuts will push them over the edge. Over the edge, in this case, would mean cutting services to mentally ill people as counselors are forced to reserve their time and resources for more severely ill patients. | Full Story