MANCHESTER - A judge Friday morning sentenced 36-year-old Todd Peters to two consecutive life sentences, without possibility of parole, in the bat beating murders of Edith Riley and Timothy King.
BRENTWOOD - The guilty verdict is the fifth and final one tied to Jack Reid’s murder four years ago inside a Deerfield horse barn. The killing was carried out at the behest of millionaire businessman John “Jay” Brooks. His son Jesse helped recruit and pay the perpetrators.
Over the past few weeks, violence against women, an issue that rarely makes front-page news, seems to have made headlines in every newspaper.
A Brookline business that lets customers roll their own cigarettes has banned "pipe tobacco" from its rolling machines in response to a judge's order, the shop's lawyers said yesterday.
WALPOLE - Updated, 6:49 a.m. Emergency workers are tied up this morning on Route 12 in North Walpole, clearing a crash scene that sent a bucket truck into the Connecticut River. One man was injured.
CONCORD - The New Hampshire congressman said a provision from a House health care reform plan that bans the use of federal funds to cover abortions will restrict access. However, he stopped short of saying he would not vote for the plan.

MANCHESTER - Jayson Galeano, a reported member of the Bloods street gang who relocated to Manchester to take advantage of the lucrative drug trade, has been sentenced to federal prison for 11 years, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
ALLENSTOWN - Authorities are hoping for new leads in their investigation of an Allenstown man's death, and his family is looking for some answers.
PORTSMOUTH - On her first day on the job, she is accused of abandoning the children, theft from the home and being involved in two auto accidents.
MANCHESTER - Updated, 8:03 a.m. Michael Moriarty, 26, is accused of punching an officer in the face and trying to get out a gun out of an officer's holster. The incident happened while Moriarty's girlfriend was being arrested for assaulting him, police said.
CLAREMONT - Updated, 11:30 a.m. Robert Hale III, 45, may be traveling in a gray Chevy S-10 pickup truck with New Hampshire license plates 259-8874 on it. Police said he was last seen in Colchester, Conn.

NASHUA - Autumn Savoy is the fifth person to be arrested in connection with an Oct. 4 murder and home invasion, though he is not accused of being at the home where Kimberly L. Cates was killed in her bed.
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HUDSON - Police yesterday announced the arrest of three people in connection with an August burglary that resulted in the theft of two guns, a badge belonging to a bail enforcement officer and a "Fugitive Recovery" jacket.

MANCHESTER - Todd Peters, 36, of Manchester, was convicted of first-degree murder in the October 2008 fatal beatings of Timothy King and Edith Riley.
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