A sleeping driver crashed into a New Hampshire toll plaza early Friday morning, according to police. State police said 39-year-old Austin Kootz was driving northbound on Route 16, approaching the Rochester toll plaza, shortly before 4 a.m. when he fell asleep and lost control of his pickup truck. Police said the truck crashed into the concrete abutment in front of…

A massive fire overnight tore through a barn at a popular family farm in Stratham, New Hampshire. Firefighters from the Stratham Fire Department initially responded to the Scamman Farm on Portsmouth Avenue shortly after 10:30a.m. on Monday. The barn dates back to the 1800s. The owners of Scamman Farm said no one was hurt, but some rabbits and scores...

Police are investigating after they discovered human remains near a rail trail in Manchester, New Hampshire, Friday. According to Manchester police, someone walking on the Rockingham Rail Trail off Candia Road shortly after 5p.m. spotted the human remains. The remains were found about 1,000 feet from the Proctor Road gate. Police secured the area and detectives responded to the scene,…

A woman is dead and a man is seriously injured after an early morning house fire in Maine on Saturday. Firefighters responded to the home on Bear Mountain Road in Fairfield around 3:40a.m. Authorities believe the person who died in the fire is 56-year-old Rebecca Merrifield, a resident of the home, but are awaiting DNA results to identify the...

The man accused of fatally stabbing a 22-year-old woman at a public library in Winchester, Massachusetts, was found not guilty Wednesday by reason of insanity. Jeffrey Yao, 24, of Winchester, was charged in the 2018 murder of Deane Kenny Stryker and the assault of a 77-year-old man who attempted to intervene at the Winchester Public Library. The judge reached a…

A Massachusetts man is facing charges in connection with two separate assault incidents that involved three women, both of which occurred on Friday in Boston. Boston Police arrested Fitsum Teklehaimanot, 28, of Chelsea, on Tremont Street while they were looking into a recent sexual assault that occurred at the Boston Public Garden. Teklehaimanot has not been named a suspect in…

Police in Vermont are investigating after six cows were found apparently shot dead in one part of the state. Vermont State Police responded to reports shortly before 11p.m. on Friday of several people in a pickup truck shooting cows on a property in Orwell. Responding troopers found six dead cows with gunshot wounds. According to Vermont Police, the troopers...

Sunday’s Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, one of the largest sporting events in the region, will look different to NASCAR fans as part of the state’s measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. “We want to make sure we’re welcoming fans to the race, but also keeping them safe,” New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu said in...

A 33-year-old Maine woman died Saturday after falling out of a whitewater raft on the Kennebec River, the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said Saturday. Emily Fournier, of Fairfield, and her family were whitewater rafting with the Magic Falls Rafting company around 11:30 a.m. when she and two others were ejected from the raft as they paddled through…

Thousands of people gathered in cities across New England on Saturday to protest the recent death of George Floyd and police violence against black people across the country. The protests around New England joined those in cities nationwide after a video spread online showing Floyd, a black man, dying while being restrained by white police officers in Minneapolis. One of…