NEWS
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Mother visiting from NH, Susan Fichera, finds herself delivering daughter's baby
"My mom basically delivered my baby on the bathroom floor," said Stephanie Schenker, 30.


Witness links chainsaw to Rockefeller wannabe at murder trial


Citizen: Fire chief asks judge for injunction against EMT



Patel says when empties fill up in the back, some of them are dirty, smelly and still filled with beer. Others are even returned dented or filled with cigarette butts. Another problem, he added, is people trying to drop off cans they bought in New Hampshire, where they did not pay a deposit.
"It's hard being this close to New Hampshire; people can buy beer cheaper there," he said.


NH gets a taste of $52.2M to protect working forests
The Androscoggin Headwaters project along the Maine/New Hampshire border will receive a $5 million grant to protect more than 12,000 acres of important forestland in the headwaters of the Androscoggin River.


NH pastor's trout pond made him a fish hatchery pioneer
The year is 1866 and much of the talk in Charlestown, New Hampshire centres on Pastor Livingston Stone and his fascination with propagating fish in the Cold Spring Trout Ponds a few hundred yards from his church. Stone found fish culturing absolutely fascinating and would leave the ministry in 1868 to follow his new found passion full time.


FEATURES
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Gay NH bishops love story comes to Sundance


Fitzwilliam, NH man joins in Golden Festival at The Rainbow Room in Brooklyn
“You don't hear these kinds of unusual melodies and rhythms elsewhere in Western music,” said 52 year-old Ben Thomas, an amateur saxophonist from Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire, who was out on the floor dancing. He'd only been to the Golden Festival once before, but has attended the Balkan music and dance workshops

offered each year by the Berkeley, California-based East European Folklife Center, the organization that has arguably been the midwife for the Balkan scene in America through its summer camps (one in Mendocino, California and the other in in Iroquois Springs, New York). “It's infectious," Thomas said. "It makes you move whether you have an understanding of the music or not.”


BUSINESS
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Bloomberg: Virtual internships grow in popularity on campuses
Apart from suiting college students with hectic schedules, virtual internships can be ideal for nontraditional students such as Heidi Johnston, 33, a business and marketing major at Southern New Hampshire University, who also holds down a full-time job at AAA Northern New England.


Eagle-Trib: Bill would free N.H. products from federal rules
Some fear a "Made in New Hampshire" bill designed to help small-business owners may actually hurt them — and the state's reputation.


Former advisor to NHPUC's business uses free software to turn factories into power plants
Audrey Zibelman, 54, heads a Philadelphia startup backed by $24 million in venture capital that she hopes will eventually help light up remote areas.


Top 10 States for LEED Certified Space per Capita in 2011
NH was on the list in 2010, but fell from the list last year.


Truckers weigh in on NH bill to boost speed limit, bill to double fines for 5 over near tolls
Owner-operator and OOIDA Life Member Willis Fogg of Rindge, NH, said the state would be better off to keep the status quo on 65 mph speed limits.


Bowling with the Financial Times: Paul Gambaccini
Gambaccini studied at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and won a Rhodes scholarship to University College, Oxford, to read PPE. But bowling has always been an important part of his life – he even lost his virginity thanks to the game.


UNH Law School professor leaving school in May to devote more time to being president of South Dakota intellectual property firm that's now importing jobs from India


USA Today: Singapore offers 'private jet' connections to A380 flights
Could boost charter flights into New Hampshire airports.


Utilities argue NU-NStar merger will improve storm restoration


Boise moves from Portsmouth to Greenland


COURTS / PUBLIC OVERSIGHT
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U.S. v. BROWN - Convictions of New Hampshire tax evaders upheld
A nine-month long stand-off between United States Marshals (the "Marshals") and husband and wife team, Edward and Elaine Brown, resulted in the Browns' criminal convictions. Edward and Elaine1 each appealed and we consolidated. Both claim that the district court committed a myriad of errors justifying reversal. After careful consideration, we reject each argument and affirm.


MATTER OF STORM ASSET MGT., INC. v. COMMISSIONER OF TAXATION
NH shipper loses tax appeal.


POLITICS
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Lakes Region senators in tug-a-war over Northern Pass
By raising the issue of eminent domain, Northern Pass has divided the Republican majority in the New Hampshire Senate with two Lakes Region Senators — Jeanie Forrester of Meredith and Jeb Bradley of Wolfeboro — as the the principal protagonists.


Nashua Telegraph: O'Brien deflects accusations of bullying other state reps


OPINION
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The Dartmouth - Peter Blair: Marriage Without Meaning
The conversation about this secondary question, however, should not ignore the rather obvious fact that out of all the possible sexual behaviors of the human race, only one type can produce children. Whether this astonishing fact gives government a special interest in that relationship, I leave to you.


BigGovernment.com: Democrats Dropping the Ball on SOPA, PIPA
Even within individual states the divisions don't make sense; New Hampshire's junior Senator Kelly Ayotte withdrew her co-sponsorship and support for PIPA citing overwhelming constituent opposition, whereas Democratic senior Senator Jeanne Shaheen has remained on board. Did New Hampshire voters somehow reach out to

Ayotte to register their disapproval but leave Shaheen out of the loop? Unlikely.


The Atlantic: The Only Culprit in Rick Perry's Collapse Is Rick Perry



SPORTS
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NH's Guinta bets Maryland lawmaker Patriots will win AFC Championship


Hampshire star runner Kruse bound for New Hampshire


Frozen Fenway 2012 doubled prior attendance record at a UMass. hockey game
The prior all-time attendance record for a UMass hockey game was 17,565 set twice against New Hampshire in the 2003 and 2004 Hockey East Tournaments at the TD Garden in Boston.


Fisher Cats coach to present at World Baseball Coaches Convention


Ski teams struggle for slope time during warm winter