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Xander Bogaerts ignited a five-run fourth inning with a home run and Andrew Benintendi capped it with a three-run double Wednesday night, helping the Red Sox avoid a third consecutive loss to the Cleveland Indians with a 10-4 win at Fenway Park.

MANCHESTER ' Joe Deleault of Goffstown and his family have been coming to New Hampshire Fisher Cats game since the team's inaugural season. So it was fitting that Deleault, along with his wife, Tracy, son, Lincoln, and daughter, Willa, received some special attention before Wednesday night's game against the Portland Sea Dogs at Northeast...

ONE OF the Northeast's biggest asphalt short-track events of the season, the 45th annual Oxford 250, presented by Clark's Scrap Metals as in six-time Pro All Star Series champion Johnny Clark, takes place Sunday at Oxford Plains Speedway with a ' can you believe it?' ' forecast of sunny weather predicted.

NHIAA Division I soccer coaches like to view every year as a clean slate filled with opportunity. The championship history over the last 10 years doesn't suggest much opportunity, though, as five schools have won titles in that span.

LITCHFIELD - Most of the names and faces are the same, and even though the Campbell High School football team hired a new head coach in the offseason, he's no stranger either.

CONCORD ' A lead state prosecutor said it is 'baffling and disturbing' that a private law firm working for St. Paul's School would interview victims of a former teacher for its report on misconduct without informing the state ' which was in the middle of a criminal case against the same educator.

BEDFORD ' Rush hour became a traffic nightmare on Route 101 in Bedford after a tractor trailer carrying wood chips rolled over onto its side just after 6 p.m. Wednesday.

DERRY - The New Hampshire Department of Transportation will be seeking bids next month to reconstruct an intersection that saw 61 accidents in a 10-year period.

When it comes to economic and personal freedom, New Hampshire has been knocked off its pedestal by Florida of all places.

HANOVER ' An investigative panel concluded a well-known medical school professor at Dartmouth College plagiarized the work of a peer.

Goffstown - In keeping with New Hampshire's purple state status, opinions ran the ideological gamut following Cohen's criminal allegations against President Trump.

Those who knew Marine Cpl. Jonathan Currier are still struggling to make sense of his tragic death in the waters off the coast of the Philippines.

The second of two men was convicted Wednesday of killing Brenda Warner and Charlene Ranstrom.

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.