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By JOHN LIPPMAN

April Frost, she might agree, probably got along better with dogs than her own species. But it was through canines that she believed people could open a new dimension into what it means to be human.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Sam Gregory said he worried that the investigation into the death of his daughter, Sammantha Cruger, would stall out after Woodsville Police Det. Wayne Fortier, who had been investigating the case, died in 2021.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Superior Court judge has denied a request by defense attorneys to obtain the email addresses and phone numbers of members of jury for a sexual assault trial earlier this year.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WINDSOR — Chief Jen Frank is trading maple trees for palm trees.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A Bethel man who faced a felony manslaughter charge for allegedly not responding quickly enough to aid a friend who died from a drug overdose after collapsing in his apartment pleaded no contest to a reduced misdemeanor count of reckless endangerment and received a fully suspended jail sentence in Orange County court.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CHELSEA — A 2017 graduate of Hanover High School has been charged with sexually assaulting a Thetford woman.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

LEBANON — For the fourth time in six years, there will be no Five Colleges Book Sale.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — A 58-year-old Windsor man who has been held without bail for three years after he fired a shotgun through the floorboards into the bedroom of his downstairs neighbor before he broke into the neighbor’s apartment while continuing to shoot was sentenced earlier this month.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The smell of smoke awoke a napping father who climbed out his bedroom window when he encountered a smoke-filled hallway at a Crystal Place home on Thursday evening.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The long-delayed River Park mixed-use development that was conceived as a home for biomedical and tech offices is seeking a two-year extension on its site plan, arguing that a court decision last year in the developer’s favor amounts to a “material change” in the plans and paves the way to extend the timeline for the project.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A vandalism spree in which car tires were slashed, bus windows smashed and racist slurs spray painted on a homeowner’s car, garage and fence has turned out to be very costly for two Newport men.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WEST LEBANON — The news is as annoying as a jammed zipper.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HANOVER — Prosecutors are not moving forward a criminal case against a Dartmouth College sorority that was accused of hosting a party attended by a student who subsequently drowned in the Connecticut River last summer.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — Four students are facing expulsion and some may be charged criminally after a gun scare that touched off a huge police response and sent Stevens High School into lockdown on Tuesday afternoon.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

CLAREMONT — Police are investigating a middle school teacher for having an “inappropriate relationship” with a 14-year-old former student.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — A judge has denied an Upper Valley man’s bid to suppress statements he made to police before he was arrested on child sexual abuse and pornography charges as a trial in the more than three-year-old case is set for spring.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Newport woman accused of witness tampering in a police investigation of her husband, who recently saw criminal charges against him dismissed as well, back-to-back vindications in the eyes of the couple, who maintained their innocence throughout the legal saga.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A jury on Friday found a Dartmouth College alumnus guilty of raping an 18-year-old freshman in Hanover in 2022.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Dartmouth College alumnus took the stand in his own defense at his sexual assault trial on Thursday.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Three people who interacted with a Dartmouth College student who said she had been raped at a fraternity house each told a Grafton County jury on Monday how the woman had reached out to them in the minutes and hours following the alleged sexual assault.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — A 21-year-old female Dartmouth College student recounted in graphic detail how she was allegedly raped and strangled by a then-recent Dartmouth alumnus on the roof of a college fraternity nearly three years ago.