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CLEVELAND - LeBron James scored 21 points, jamming in a powerhouse dunk over a defenseless Kevin Garnett in the final two minutes, as the Cleveland Cavaliers beat the homesick Celtics, 88-77, in Game 4 last night to tie the best-of-seven series at 2-2.
MINNEAPOLIS - Livan Hernandez won again, Craig Monroe contributed another big hit, and the Minnesota Twins beat the Boston Red Sox, 7-3, last night to win the four-game series.
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DOVER - Prosecutors face a difficult hurdle in the case against a former jail chaplain accused of sexually assaulting a female inmate over nine months. The woman testified yesterday that she had only been attacked "four or five times."
NORTH HAMPTON - Two Vermont men were arrested Sunday during what they described to police as a "random" trip to Hampton Beach.
MANCHESTER - Concord Hospital, Mascoma Savings Bank, Bresette and Co. and Atlantic Media won the 2008 Business in the Arts Awards last night, and Patrick Duffy was honored with a Leadership Award from the New Hampshire Business Committee for the Arts.
CONCORD - Officials and business leaders from Quebec and New Hampshire yesterday pledged to encourage cross-border business partnerships that support jobs and make both trading partners stronger.
MANCHESTER - "This isn't 'Pretty Woman'." The undercover officers are not dolled up in high heels and fishnet stockings. Those aren't the clothes of the trade for Manchester's ladies of the night.
The police detail working this early-morning sting targeted the area surrounding Enright Park, long known for prostitution.
EPPING - Updated, 3:20 p.m. Shackled and surrounded by bailiffs, Sheila LaBarre began crying as she stood in the middle of her farmyard, observing the smashed and broken remnants of her former home.
LaBarre was at the farm this morning for a jury view at the start of her insanity trial.
NEW CASTLE - A teenage boy, who struggled in vain to help his father swim to safety after their lobster boat capsized off the Isles of Shoals, survived with another crew member by swimming to Duck Island and spending the night there.
A state trooper salutes during the national anthem at the New Hampshire Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Ceremony in Concord yesterday. (BOB LAPREE)
Courtney McKay, daughter of slain Franconia Police Cpl. Bruce McKay, and his former wife, Angela McKay, place a flower in the memorial wreath. (BOB LAPREE)
CONCORD - A year and a day after Franconia Police Cpl. Bruce McKay was killed in the line of duty, his name was officially recognized on the New Hampshire Law Enforcement Officers Memorial.
MANCHESTER - You know that old parking ticket you never paid? Now is the time to settle up.
HOOKSETT - A police officer was arrested by state police and charged with driving while intoxicated early Sunday morning, according to Hooksett Police.
RUMNEY - Jason Marrer barely escaped with his life six months ago when the stolen Land Rover he was traveling in hit a tree and went down an embankment. Marrer was cruising the winding roads of Rumney Sunday morning when the car he was in struck a tree and plunged into the Baker River. This time, he and two others were killed.
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Updated, 4:17 p.m. John DiStaso's influential column is now updated when political news breaks.
CONCORD - State Republican Chairman Fergus Cullen yesterday apologized to Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton for joking about their assassination in his online party newsletter last week.
OF THE FOUR primary problems caused by the state Supreme Court's Claremont and Londonderry rulings, the compromise constitutional amendment crafted last week -- and up for a vote in the House tomorrow -- fixes only one.
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LOGAN, W.Va. - Signaling he has written off today’s West Virginia primary, Sen. Barack Obama is aiming this week at the five remaining Democratic contests -- and the fall election, with a stop in suburban Detroit, home to many “Reagan Democrats” a generation ago.
Even in the neatest of homes, children's bedrooms are magnets for clutter, and tend to be the smallest rooms in the house.
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