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Column: I Took a Stand for Lectern
When Fox News hosted a rodeo of Republican candidates for president in its debate a few months ago, it set up 10 "podiums" on the stage from behind which the candidates would speak, and declared that Donald…
Family Members Face Drug Charges
Lebanon -- A father and son from Barre, Vt., are facing drug charges after police found more than 2,500 bags of heroin and 1.6 ounces of marijuana in their West Lebanon hotel room, Lebanon police said…
Editorial: The Generous Season
Whether owing to the holidays, or end-of-the-year tax reckoning, generosity of spirit spreads across the land this time of year. While this nation has expended much energy in 2015 in fear (terror, racism,…
Books Always Make Great Gifts, Especially This Time of Year
You wouldn't know it by the recent weather -- is this northern New England or North Carolina? -- but Hanukkah has recently concluded, Christmas is around the corner, Kwanzaa is on its heels and the Feast…
Column: Obama's Fantasy Legacy
Washington Last Saturday, Barack Obama gained the second jewel in his foreign policy triple crown: the Paris climate accord. It follows his Iran nuclear deal and awaits but the closing of Guantanamo…
Forum: Our Own Source of Terror; Origins of Radicalization; A Couple of Loose Ends
A Source of Terror To the Editor: Today, some believe the most dangerous people in the world are refugees escaping from their homes. Our leaders and potential leaders seem to believe if we keep them…
Column: Professor's Suspension Is About Anti-Muslim Bigotry, Not Theology
A professor of political science at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., Larycia Hawkins, has been put on an administrative leave because of a theological claim. Appealing in part to arguments in my book…
Movie Review: 'Sisters' Is Down, Dirty and Disarmingly Funny
It requires superior artistry to take the rude, crude and socially unmentionable and make it feel upliftingly wholesome. Such is the magic of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the dynamic duo at the playful,…
Movie Review: 'Chipmunks' Sequel Takes a Familiar Route
Sequels will always be compared to their predecessors, both in quality and box-office pull. But the folks at 20th Century Fox can breathe a sigh of relief about Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip.…
Vt. Hospital CEO Pay Averages Over $500,000
Montpelier -- The chief executive officer at Vermont's 14 hospitals and Dartmouth--Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon made an average of $514,977 in 2013, according to a VtDigger analysis of tax records. …
Elizabeth Davis Olsen
Autryville, N.C. -- Elizabeth Davis Olsen, 88, formerly of Lyme, N.H. died Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2015, at Rex Healthcare in Raleigh, N.C. She was born Sept. 12, 1927, in Manchester, N.H. a daughter of Harold…
Movie Review: 'Star Wars' Series' Form Awakens
So: Where were we? Let's skip past the prequel trilogy The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, apparently written and directed by droids. In chronological story terms, we…
Weiland Died of Accidental Overdose
Scott Weiland died of an accidental overdose of cocaine, alcohol and methylenedioxyamphetamine, the drug commonly known as MDA. The cause of death of the former Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver…
E! Serves Last Bowl of Tasty Trash-Culture Catalog 'The Soup'
The Soup, E!'s weekly clip-and-comment show that rounds up the horrors and highlights of reality television and incisively scorches our celeb-obsessed culture, served its last bowl of snark on Friday…
FEMA Official Warns Norwich Might Lose Out on Funding
Norwich -- The Selectboard on Thursday voted unanimously to apply for federal disaster money to secure a ruined dam and repair the public works garage, despite a warning from a Federal Emergency Management…
Marjorie Lucetta Hall Steel
Greenville Miss. -- Marjorie Lucetta Hall Steel, age 91, of Greenville, formally of Tonawanda, N.Y., and Ellenton, Fla., died on Monday, Dec. 14, 2015, at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in…
Obamacare Enrollment Surges to 6 Million
Washington -- President Obama announced on Friday that nearly 6 million Americans have enrolled in insurance for 2016 through HealthCare.gov -- a big increase over last year that federal officials said…
Boomers: Living Longer, Sicker
Los Angeles -- After the last of the baby boomers become fully eligible for Medicare, the federal health program can expect significantly higher costs in 2030 both because of the high number of beneficiaries…
Hartford Mulls Changes to Voting
Hartford -- In an effort to address concerns that Hartford's unusual hybrid Town Meeting structure may have disenfranchised voters earlier this year, some officials are proposing to stick with Australian…
A Sweet Christmas Tradition
Lebanon -- It happens every December: On the day her father delivers his homemade chocolates to more than 60 people around the Upper Valley, Ellen Bailey tries to talk Steve Marchewka into wearing a Santa…
N.H. Ranks Near Top For Overdose Deaths
Drug overdoses took the lives of 334 people in New Hampshire in 2014, putting the state's death rate in the epidemic of opioid and drug abuse among the worst in the nation, according to a report issued…
Labrie: No Regrets on Deal Denial
Tunbridge -- A graduate of an exclusive New England prep school convicted of sexually assaulting a younger student says he doesn't regret rejecting a plea deal. Owen Labrie told Newsweek magazine that…
Spending, Tax Bill Signed
Washington -- Congress gave final approval Friday to one of the most ambitious legislative packages in years -- a $1.1 trillion funding bill, up to $680 billion in tax breaks and dozens of other substantial…
Feds: Gun Buyer in Massacre Mused on Facebook About Troubles
Riverside, Calif. -- Less than a month before his friend carried out the San Bernardino terror attack, the man who authorities say bought the assault rifles used in the massacre wondered when the multiple…
UN Endorses Syria Peace Plan
United Nations -- The U.N. Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a resolution endorsing a peace process that is designed to end Syria's civil war and to allow the international community to focus…
