Friday, 11/6/09
NEWS:
Hartford Project Hits a Snag: Artifacts Perhaps 9,000 Years Old
Hartford -- A routine archeological dig to pass muster with federal guidelines has uncovered hundreds of artifacts at the planned site of the White River Treatment Plant expansion, some perhaps dating to 7000 B.C. See full story
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NEWS:
Fort Hood Psychiatrist Kills 12
An Army psychiatrist allegedly opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, Texas, yesterday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 31 in what is believed to be the deadliest mass shooting on a U.S. military base in history. See full story
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SPORTS:
Backfield Leads Hanover to Verge of 5th Straight Crown
Exeter, N.H. -- On first thought, James Bond wouldn't like Dan Remillard all that much. See full story
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CLOSE-UP:
Wild About Sendak
Like many of us, the author Gregory Maguire first read the books of Maurice Sendak as a child, reading Where the Wild Things Are to his brothers and sister when he was 9. Sendak is one of the preeminent artists of children's literature, and Maguire, who has written the best-selling and critically praised novels Wicked and Son of a Witch, has now turned his attention to a man who has long been one of his literary and artistic heroes. See full story
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EDITORIAL:
Framing Suspects
Hold Prosecutors Accountable
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“There is no Freestanding Constitutional ‘Right Not to Be Framed.' ” So states a brief filed by Iowa prosecutors hoping to persuade the Supreme Court to dismiss a lawsuit against them for allegedly fabricating evidence that led to the 25-year incarceration of two innocent men. It's a breathtaking proposition that the justices should roundly reject. See full story
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For complete story, see today's Valley News
NEWS: Randolph Fugitives To Face New Charges
Royalton -- Two Randolph-area men charged in connection with a violent home invasion four months ago in South Royalton -- then captured last month in Mexico as fugitives in that case -- are facing new state and perhaps federal charges.
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NEWS: Same-Sex Policy to Change at DHMC
Lebanon -- Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center has put its 8,000 employees statewide on notice that as of January 2011, it will no longer extend health insurance and other benefits to domestic partners and the dependents of domestic partners.
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NEWS: These Chairs Go Way Back
Claremont -- As Ray Gagnon sat for his “old duffer's regular” at Sugar River Barbers in downtown Claremont recently, he was transported back to his childhood.
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NEWS: Dartmouth Prof: Oswald Photo Not Fake
Concord -- The infamous photograph of Lee Harvey Oswald holding a rifle in his backyard would have been nearly impossible to fake, according to a new analysis by a Dartmouth College professor.
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