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OSSIPEE - The Jackson innkeeper who earlier this year confronted would-be patrons, ostensibly because of their ethnicity and faith, entered a plea of 'not guilty' Wednesday to two counts of simple assault, which because of hate-crime enhancements, could put her behind bars for up to five years.

OSSIPEE ' A 70-year-old man who admitted to sexually assaulting two young girls in Wakefield in 2015 has been sentenced to two consecutive prison sentences of 4 to 8 years.

CONCORD ' An internal St. Paul's School investigation in 2001 determined that the founder and longtime director of the school's ballet program repeatedly sexually harassed students, but administrators allowed him to resign without a negative recommendation and he went on to teach ballet classes across the country for more than a decade.

DOVER - More is being learned about the people involved in a double murder that has shocked a small condominium community in Dover.

BRENTWOOD - The trial of youth hockey coach Robert Andersen of Wilmington, Mass., who was arrested on Dec. 2 at the ICenter arena after police were called to the scene for a fight between parents, has been scheduled for May 6, 2019 and is expected to last at least five days.

CONCORD ' A former youth softball coach in Milford has pleaded guilty to possessing pornographic images of a former player on his iPhone, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

BROOKLYN, Iowa ' For the past four years, Cristhian Rivera has spent his days caring for herds of meat and dairy cattle just outside Brooklyn, Iowa. On the evening of July 18, he told investigators, he spotted a young woman in workout clothes, jogging alone.

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh said on Wednesday it had removed Cardinal Donald Wuerl's name from a high school after a grand jury report on sex abuse in the Church found he had reassigned priests who had been accused of abusing children, rather than taking stronger action.

Gov. Chris Sununu says his support for President Trump has not wavered in the wake of Tuesday's guilty plea by the President's former private attorney Michael Cohen and felony convictions of Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.

WASHINGTON ' The White House pushed back forcefully on Wednesday against suggestions that a plea deal struck by President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen implicated Trump in a crime.

WASHINGTON ' Lanny Davis, a lawyer for President Donald Trump's former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, said Wednesday that Trump's alleged direction of hush payments to two women amounts to impeachable offenses and that Cohen has no interest in being 'dirtied' by a presidential pardon of his crimes.

HONOLULU ' Hawaii residents already reeling from months of explosive eruptions from Kilauea volcano braced on Wednesday for Hurricane Lane, which was bearing down on the island chain with high winds and lashing rains and the potential to trigger flooding and landslides.

To the Editor: As a First District voter, I have researched where the candidates stand on issues, how they approach serving the people of New Hampshire, and what skills they bring to the table. All things considered, the best choice became apparent. I will be voting for Mindi Messmer.

To the Editor: I recently went to an event hosted by League of Conservation Voters and the Peterborough Recreation Department. We spent some time cleaning up downtown and then had a picnic up at Adams Playground.

To the Editor: Because of Scott Pruitt's deep-seated corruption and his too-cozy relationship with the industries he oversaw, every policy decision he made that undermined public health and the environment should be immediately halted, reviewed, and vacated if it can't be supported by science.

CONCORD ' A proposed 84 million transmission-line project that would be buried partly in Little Bay pits a need for more capacity to transmit power through the region versus concerns over disrupting the bay.

WASHINGTON ' The U.S. economy likely created 43,000 more jobs in the 12 months through March than previously estimated, the Labor Department said on Wednesday.

My brothers and I sometimes accompanied our father to the empty newsroom on a late Sunday afternoon when he would catch up on mail, look through a mound of paperwork and check the noisy Associated Press teletype machine.

MANCHESTER ' Additional batches of mosquitoes collected in the Queen City have tested positive for West Nile virus, city health officials said Wednesday.

ROCHESTER - A pancake breakfast is being held Sunday to benefit a 26-year-old Rochester firefighter battling cancer.