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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.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WOODSTOCK — The last weeks of December were busy for the Windsor County Sheriff’s Department.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Prosecutors are prepared to call more than two dozen witnesses, including the female Dartmouth College student who reported she was the victim of a brutal sexual assault on the roof of a college fraternity nearly three years ago, during the rape trial of a Dartmouth alumnus set to begin in a Grafton County courtroom on Friday.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

QUECHEE — The person who died after being transported to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the head on Sunday was a 21-year-old man, Hartford Police Chief Greg Sheldon said on Wednesday.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

HARTFORD — A person who police described as a “male individual” died from injuries from a shooting in Hartford on Sunday afternoon, according to a Monday police news release.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — A 54-year-old Hartford man whose home across the street from Hartford High School was the target of a police raid in 2023, pleaded guilty last week to a misdemeanor count of cocaine possession.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NORTH HAVERHILL — Jury selection began Wednesday in the trial of a 26-year-old Dartmouth alumnus charged with raping and physically assaulting a female student at a college fraternity more than two years ago. Meanwhile, prosecutors and defense attorneys have been wrestling over the scope of witness statements and even whether the words “assault” and “victim” can be used in opening statements.

By JOHN LIPPMAN

NEWPORT — A former Claremont doctor has been been sentenced up to a year in county jail after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a female patient during an office visit two years ago.Under a plea bargain with Sullivan County prosecutors, Thomas...