Tuesday, 6/30/09
NEWS:
Jury Selected for Browns' Trial
Concord -- Lawyers yesterday selected 15 jurors who will decide whether tax evaders Ed and Elaine Brown will spend the rest of their lives in prison for engaging in a 9-month armed standoff with federal agents inside their Plainfield home. See full story
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NEWS:
Madoff Given Life Behind Bars
New York -- Bernard Madoff was sentenced yesterday to the maximum 150 years in prison for his multibillion-dollar fraud scheme, which a federal judge called “staggering.” See full story
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SPORTS:
Summer Is for Coaching Changes
West Lebanon -- Longtime Lebanon High girls basketball coach Tim Kehoe worked his way through the 2008-09 season with a little voice in the back of his head. Actually, it was the big voice of his older brother, Ed, who wasn't averse to sticking the occasional needle into his brother while watching him on the sidelines with the Raiders last winter. See full story
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EDITORIAL:
Punish And Prevent
Dealing With Sex Crimes
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The killing of Brooke Bennett a year ago seems to have transformed the legal, political and cultural landscape of Vermont in terms of how the state deals with sex offenders, as staff writer John P. Gregg reported in the Sunday Valley News. See full story
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For complete story, see today's Valley News
NEWS: N.H. Counties Approve Budgets
Lawmakers from both Grafton and Sullivan Counties have unanimously approved fiscal year 2010 spending plans that may please property taxpayers who help foot the bills.
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NEWS: High Court Backs White Firefighters 5-4
Washington -- The Supreme Court narrowly ruled yesterday in favor of white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., who said they were denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision by Judge Sonia Sotomayor and others that had come to play a large role in the consideration of her nomination for the high court.
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CLOSE-UP: By Dan Mackie Shawn Braley illustration
I love the Fourth. There, I've said it.
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SPORTS: Lester Still Has the O's Number
Baltimore -- It's about as close as it gets to a sure thing in baseball: Jon Lester and Jonathan Papelbon pitching for Boston against the Baltimore Orioles.
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