Jennifer Books crept along the soggy marsh, picking up trash with her gloved hand and filling one trash bag after another.

Worcester Girls Inc. CEO resigns WORCESTER - Cathi Coridan, chief executive officer of Girls Inc., has submitted her resignation, the organization said yesterday.

Town meeting in Hart's Location, population 41, is a little different from those in most New Hampshire towns.

Someone shot a pit bull in the head and left it for dead in some woods but the dog survived for a time and, bleeding heavily from the wound, crawled 100 yards into a city ballpark where it died.

Jon and Dianne Worrall stood on the front lawn of their Brentwood home yesterday to watch as crews from Connecticut Light and Power repaired a tangled mess of wires brought down by a large tree.

Suddenly, there's a flood of school reform and funding in this district that has long struggled by even the state's fairly low standards.

The Lenten season begins with Ash Wednesday tomorrow, and many people of faith will be honoring the spirit of sacrifice by giving up something in their own lives.

Adam Lamotte, a Manchester man who turned himself in to police yesterday for shooting his dog, says he "made a terrible mistake" when he decided to euthanize the animal himself instead of taking him to a vet.

Police have decided not to send undercover officers into Dartmouth College parties as planned, but said students and officials have a relatively short period of time to start curbing underage drinking and alcohol abuse or else it will come up again.

A conservative group's effort to push for a statewide vote on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage has met with mixed results.