New Hampshire

MOULTONBOROUGH, N.H. (AP) — Parents are demanding answers after a New Hampshire summer camp that calls itself one of the best in the nation unexpectedly shut down after just six days this month.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than 100 New Hampshire hotels and other lodging establishments are splitting $10 million in federal funds to offset losses suffered during the coronavirus pandemic.

The $10 million fund for the hospitality industry will cover about 12% of the losses, Gov.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire colleges and universities continue to prepare for the return of both students and employees for what they expect to be full-capacity campuses this fall.

At Dartmouth College, officials are figuring out how to meet demand for undergraduate housing.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — It's been a record month for rain in New Hampshire.

The National Weather Service says 10.7 inches of rain have fallen in Concord so far this month, the most for July since record keeping began in 1868.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — More than 100 organizations have requested a visit from New Hampshire’s COVID-19 vaccine van as infections continue to rise, state officials said Thursday.

The van, a partnership between the state and ConvenientMD, started running July 14.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The new owners of a small rental building are asking their long-term tenants to leave so they can renovate, but the lack of affordable housing in the New Hampshire is making it hard for those tenants to find another place to live.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The drought is receding in northern New England but part of northwestern Maine and a sliver of northern New Hampshire continue to be in the category of a “severe drought," officials said Thursday.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The number of people testing positive for the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic has surpassed 100,000 in New Hampshire as the number of daily new cases continues to rise.

GREENVILLE, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Fish and Game officials warned of fast-moving rivers and streams and high water levels as a woman's body was recovered from Souhegan River in Greenville.

The woman's body was spotted on Tuesday, a day after she went missing.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against a former state employee who accused the Department of Health and Human Services of failing to protect children from abuse and neglect.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Applications are now being accepted for New Hampshire's “Summer Stipend Program,” which seeks to reward workers returning to jobs after unemployment.

The state announced in May that it was ending federal pandemic unemployment benefits.

PETERBOROUGH, N.H. (AP) — Some roads will need major repairs after heavy rains caused flooding in parts of southern New Hampshire over the weekend, officials say.

The Contoocook River was flowing high and fast in Peterborough, WMUR-TV reported.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Police in New Hampshire’s largest city are investigating separate shooting incidents that slightly wounded one person.

Manchester police say they received a report of multiple shots being fired at about 11:35 p.m.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A grocery store operator has paid over $27,000 in fines to the U.S. Department of Labor after an investigation found that some minors employed by the business were cleaning power-driven meat mixers and grinders and others worked in violation of federal hours restrictions.

LOUDON, N.H. (AP) — Christopher Bell had to reward the young boy wearing his T-shirt with a fist bump and the checkered flag from his third career New Hampshire victory.

Bell laughed when he said it was a rare sight at the track to find any fan wearing his merchandise.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard rescued three people who were found clinging to the hull of their overturned sailboat about 20 miles off the coast of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.

A Coast Guard helicopter found the three waving from the water on Friday night.

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Four people were shot in a drive-by shooting in Manchester early on Friday after leaving a concert, police said.

The shootings happened near an off-ramp on Interstate 293 in the city before 2 a.m.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The New Hampshire Community College system is freezing tuition for the upcoming academic year, the system trustees voted Thursday.

Tuition at the seven colleges in the system will remain at $215 per credit, or $6,450 per year, in tuition costs for a full-time course load.

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — The hot housing market continues to drive home prices skyward in New Hampshire with the median price of a home topping half-a-million dollars for the first time in one county.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s least populated county is seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases.

Androscoggin Valley Hospital in Berlin began to see an increase in cases late last week when the city's COVID-19 count jumped from zero cases to eight, said James Patry, a hospital spokesperson.

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to 60 to 120 years in prison Wednesday for 14 counts of aggravated sexual assault of three children.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gov. Chris Sununu on Tuesday signed a bill establishing a broadband matching grant initiative and fund for New Hampshire.

It will be funded with state appropriations, gifts, grants, donations, and available federal funds.

LANCASTER, N.H. (AP) — A former New Hampshire state senator was sentenced Tuesday to 60 days in jail on his convictions of domestic violence, criminal mischief and simple assault charges.

Jeff Woodburn, 56, of Whitefield, pleaded not guilty in 2018 to nine misdemeanor charges.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's unemployment rate for June remained at 2.9%, unchanged from May and much improved from 10.3% a year ago during the coronavirus pandemic.

Seasonally adjusted estimates for June saw the number of employed residents decrease by 1,810 since May to 733,350.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A COVID-19 vaccine van will be making its way around New Hampshire this summer.

The van, a partnership between the state and ConvenientMD, starts running Thursday. It will be available to organizations and community events.

Authorities have identified a man who died and another who was injured after their small plane crashed in New Hampshire.

The plane crashed Saturday in Charlestown. Police identified the man who died as Paul Harrison, 54, of Ryegate, Vermont.

CHARLESTOWN, N.H. (AP) — Authorities say one man is dead and another injured after their small plane crashed in New Hampshire.

WMUR-TV reports the Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board are investigating the incident, which occurred in Charlestown just after 5:30 p.m.

BRENTWOOD, N.H. (AP) — A portion of Route 125 through Brentwood is being renamed in honor of a police officer who was killed in the line of duty in 2014.

A dedication ceremony for the Officer Stephen Arkell Memorial Highway is being held Saturday.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A COVID-19 task force at Dartmouth College is planning to end its work by Aug. 1.

The task force has guided the college's pandemic-related decisions. It stopped making recommendations as of Tuesday.

ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) — Vaccination rates may be higher in border communities in northeastern Vermont than they appear because people living there could be getting their COVID-19 shots in New Hampshire, officials said.

STEWARTSTOWN, N.H. (AP) — A pickup truck driver died after his vehicle left the road and struck an embankment in Stewartstown, New Hampshire State Police said Thursday.

The crash happened on Route 3 shortly after 6:30 a.m., police said.

BETHEL, Maine (AP) — A 17-year-old girl led police on a chase across New Hampshire and Maine before state police used spike mats to end the joy ride, police said.

The teen, driving a pickup truck stolen in Berlin, New Hampshire, drove across the state line on Monday evening and continued after hitting a Jersey barrier in a construction zone in Bethel, police said.

SEABROOK, N.H. (AP) — State police in New Hampshire have accused a woman of driving while impaired in a crash on Interstate 95 in Seabrook that killed a man and injured others, including herself.

The woman, who is from Maine, was driving north on the highway on Tuesday when her SUV started to drift into another lane of traffic and made a “sideswipe impact" with another vehicle, police said.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Up to 2,000 Dartmouth-Hitchcock employees will keep working remotely in some capacity after the coronavirus pandemic, officials said.

Brenda Blair of Dartmouth-Hitchcock tells the Valley News that positions will be affected at least part of the time in human resources, information technology, finance and clinical secretary services.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Tim Baxter, a Republican and first-term member of the New Hampshire House, has announced that he is running for the 1st Congressional District in 2022.

Baxter, of Seabrook, announced his candidacy in a video Monday.

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Gas prices have gone up a little in all three northern New England states over the past week as drivers' demand for gasoline has soared.

A GasBuddy survey of more than 1,200 stations in Maine found that gas prices Tuesday were 5.8 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.

DOVER, N.H. (AP) — The cleanup is continuing Monday on Garrison Hill in Dover after a malfunction ended a July Fourth fireworks show early.

WMUR-TV reports that about 15 minutes into the Sunday evening display, one of the six-inch shells failed to launch completely and fell back to the ground, igniting other fireworks on the ground and causing an explosion, officials say.

WARNER, N.H. (AP) — One person died and another was seriously injured following a crash on Interstate 89 in Warner, New Hampshire State Police said.

The single-vehicle crash was reported about 7:30 p.m.

FRANCONIA, N.H. (AP) — Members of a nonprofit group dedicated to the memorial for New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain got a scare during a recent visit — they thought that there was another collapse.