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Political operative arrested in N.C. scandal

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – The political operative at the center of an election fraud scandal that has engulfed a North Carolina congressional race was arrested Wednesday on charges of illegal ballot handling and conspiracy. Four people working for him were also charged. Leslie McCrae Dowless ...

Coast Guard officer accused of drafting hit list is indicted

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) – A Coast Guard officer accused of being a white supremacist who compiled a hit list of prominent Democrats was indicted Wednesday on drug and firearms charges. A federal grand jury in Maryland indicted Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, on charges of illegal possession of ...

Indictments for several area residents

NASHUA – Men and women who allegedly committed crimes as recently as mid-January and as far back as 2013 were indicted this week by the grand jury for the February term of Hillsborough County Superior Court-South. An indictment is not an indication, or proof of, guilt, but represents the ...

Kraft charges lead officials to call for tightened regulations

BOSTON (AP) – Attorney General Maura Healey renewed her call on Tuesday for passage of legislation that would tighten state laws around the licensing and regulation of massage therapy and bodyworks in Massachusetts, in the aftermath of allegations that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft ...

Woman convicted in infant’s 2006 death seeks sentence reduction

NASHUA – For the past 10 years, former Nashua resident Nicole Belonga has found herself “wishing I could change what happened” back in January 2006. That’s when Belonga’s 21-month-old daughter, Rylea, died of what some doctors called the worst case of “shaken baby syndrome” they ...

Shelter resident charged with felony arson

NASHUA – A homeless shelter resident allegedly punched an employee, then gathered cardboard from a dumpster, arranged it inside the shelter’s bus, and set it ablaze. Brandon Middaugh, 27, who gives his address as 40 Chestnut St., the Southern New Hampshire Rescue Mission, was charged with ...