NEWS
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Weare officer continues fight over firing to state court after case dismissed by feds
The case claims department allegations that Chatel possessed child pornography as he investigated a case led to him suffering from severe anxiety and other health problems.


Romanian extradited to NH for computer scheme that allegedly stole credit card info at U.S. cash registers
A Romanian man has been extradited to the U.S. to face charges that he had part in a fraud ring that allegedly electronically accessed as many as 80,000 credit cards while they were being used at cash registers across the U.S. Adrian-Tiberiu Oprea, 28, of Constanta, Romania, was set to appear before a federal judge in New Hampshire on May 29 to face charges of allegedly participating in a scheme to remotely hack into and steal payment card data from hundreds of U.S. merchants' “point of sale” (POS) computer systems.


To always be prepared, Boy Scouts start welding


Vt. village wants to discuss bridge with NH
The well-traveled Vilas Bridge over the Connecticut River was closed in 2009 after an inspection found continued deterioration of the bridge deck.


SpaceDaily.com: Building 45 Payloads for Balloon Mission
Robyn Millan's lab is a little crowded at the moment. It overflows with electronics. And foam. And parachutes and aluminum frames and drills. Based at Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH, Millan and her students are busy building 45 payloads - each destined for a trip on a balloon around Antarctica as part of a NASA mission called BARREL, or the Balloon Array for RBSP Relativistic Electron Losses.


Groveton man gets 60 days for selling drugs in Vt.


BUSINESS
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Should Engineers Pay More Tuition Than English Majors
A recent Cornell study showed that 140 four-year public colleges had differential undergraduate tuition rates. That is an increase of more than 19 percent from 2006. In some cases the tuition increases as you make your way towards graduation. But in other schools it depends on your program, with business, nursing and engineering leading the way.


McLane Law Firm - Richard A. Samuels: New "jobs" act: easing access to capital for smaller business
There are fewer than a dozen non-bank public companies based in New Hampshire, so for New Hampshire-based companies, these private company provisions deserve attention.


U.S. Naval Systems Command in Portsmouth looks to spend $15,876 on accommodations in Conn.
C.W. World Meetings Inc. dba Site Solutions Worldwide, Burnt Hills, won a $15,876 contract from the U.S. Naval Supply Systems Command, Portsmouth, N.H., for lodging accommodations. Place of performance will be in New London, Conn.


FEATURES / ENTERTAINMENT
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Gene Robinson, First Openly Gay Anglican Bishop, Celebrates 65th Birthday


IrishCentral.com: Inaugural Murray School Feis great success - championship list


NHPR Audio - The Darjees and One Year of Granite State Living
It's Friday evening in May and the Darjee family is winding down from another long work week. After today's visit they plan on going grocery shopping, having dinner and then over the weekend, visiting friends and going to church. It's not that much different than probably many families in Concord this weekend. But for the Darjees even a simple weekend like this is light years away from how they were living less than one year ago in a refugee camp in Nepal.


COURTS / PUBLIC OVERSIGHT
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NH Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Rules - Public Hearing on June 15
A variety of rules changes will be considered including Parental Notification for abortions.


POLITICS
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CampaignandElections.com: New Hampshire's pushback on polling intensifies - Why more and more pollsters are turning away from the Granite State
Given the state's new push polling law, is it better for business to take work in the battleground state and risk getting hit with a fine, or is it best to boycott the state and pressure lawmakers to reform the statute? It's a Hamletesque dilemma for the polling industry, which has been rallying in recent weeks to force a change to New Hampshire's law.


NHPR Audio: Sen. Ray White rips LGC, Senate leaders
Senator Ray White – a key architect of the effort – blames the Local Government Center's crew of lobbyists and Senate leadership for failing to pass a reform package.


PRIMARY
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WaPo: Is 2012 good for the Mormons?
What are we to think, now that a Mormon has clinched the presidential nomination of one of America's two major parties? The respectable Victorian men who ruled America's politics during the 1912 election would have been stricken with chills at the thought of a presidential election a century hence pitting a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints against an African American.


John Sununu spars with Soledad O'Brien over Trump: 'Why is CNN so fixated on this?'
“Why the birther thing?” O'Brien questioned Sununu. “I don't know,” Sununu shot back. “Why is CNN so fixated on this? Why don't we talk about the jobs issue in this country?”


Star-Ledger: Does Chris Christie have a 'peculiar' skill set needed to be VP?


OPINION
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NYT - John M. Rodgers: Two Homes, a World Apart
Not long ago, I was sitting on a plane 37,000 feet above the earth on my way from Seoul to New York's J.F.K. Airport, where I would catch a flight to Boston and then a ride to northern New Hampshire. During the flight I had plenty of time to contemplate the transition from a frenetic, wired city of more than 10 million people to a bucolic town (pop. 4,044). I'd be staying at a relative's home more than eight miles down a road that ends at the state's largest lake, Lake Winnipesaukee.


SPORTS
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Baseball Bid Shows City Holds Us Back: Ken Gray Column
Could Ottawa have had Double-A baseball in 2013? Yes. But it would have taken an uncharacteristic herculean effort from city staff. According to Eastern League president Joe McEacharn, the 2013 Ottawa timeline for getting a team in his Double-A loop “was very ambitious.” McEacharn needed to see a signed lease on his desk by the end of April and a crack management team in place by May because the team needed to be selling tickets for 2013 by then. His draft Eastern League schedule for next season is already done and will be finalized in July. For the purposes of his very professional league, Ottawa had missed McEacharn's deadline.


Are you mad enough to take the Maddog Fitness Challenge?
The mud-loving adventurers tackling tomorrow's inaugural Maddog Fitness Challenge better turn up with some serious mental and physical fortitude! The gruelling undulating 3.1-mile course, set against the background of the serene and picturesque New Hampshire mountain resort of Gunstock, has 11 obstacles.


NHRA set to bring Full Throttle series to N.H.
NHRA officials will announce Wednesday at Boston's Old City Hall it will sanction an event at New England Dragway in Epping, N.H., adding to its 2013 NHRA Full Throttle Drag Racing Series schedule.


ESPN HS: New Hampshire Baseball POY: Jordan Bean
Bean led the St. Thomas Aquinas Saints to a 15-1 record entering the Division 2 state tournament, scheduled to begin Thursday.


Fisher Cats have emotional investment in Hutchison
This is the minor-league way, the minor-league life. When someone is promoted you think: "Why not me?" Yet when your former teammate is on a major-league mound and in a jam, you live and die with every pitch.