Local News
Dover death a homicide
12/30/02 -
DOVER - The death of a Hispanic man found shot to death in a car Saturday morning has been ruled a homicide. The medical examiner’s office is withholding the victim’s name pending positive identification.
1985 report: Church knew of priest abuse
12/30/02 -
PORTSMOUTH - Evidence exists that bishops in the Catholic Church were warned about the reality of priest sexual abuse 17 years ago and chose to disregard it.
Action plan was developed 17 years ago for bishops
12/30/02 -
PORTSMOUTH - Predictions in a 1985 report have turned out to be an extremely accurate representation of the situation facing the Catholic Church today.
Taking off
12/30/02 -
PORTSMOUTH - At 11,321 feet long, the runway at Pease International Tradeport is one of the largest in the nation.
Many fear wetlands are being sacrificed
12/30/02 -
PORTSMOUTH - Local preservationists are not so sure President Bush has the best interests of the environment at heart with his new guidelines for wetlands restoration.
Loan will help fix odor problem
12/30/02 -
PORTSMOUTH - The city has received only about a fifth of the amount of funding it needs to complete work on separating its wastewater and stormwater systems. Nevertheless, the $4.1 million low-cost loan authorized recently by Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and the Executive Council will address one of the most obvious problems Portsmouth has - the odors coming from the South Mill Pond.
N.H. inheritance tax repeal effective Jan. 1
12/30/02 -
CONCORD - Siblings and others covered by New Hampshire’s death tax no longer will have to pay 18 cents per inherited dollar once the clock chimes in the New Year.
Sports News
UNH shut out by Denver
12/30/02 -
DENVER – The University of New Hampshire men’s hockey team was shut out for the first time all season in a 4-0 loss to Denver in the finals of the Wells Fargo Denver Cup late Saturday night.
UNH cagers hit new low in loss
12/30/02 -
GREENVILLE, S.C. - The University of New Hampshire men’s basketball team lost for the second time in two days at the Poinsettia Holiday Classic on Sunday, dropping the consolation game of the tournament, 75-69, to previously winless Stetson University at Timmons Arena.
Finally, ride is at an end
12/30/02 -
FOXBORO, Mass. - It was another patented Patriots miracle. And an incredible Miami meltdown on the thawed tundra of Gillette Stadium.
Complete Sports News
South of the Border
Death penalty gambit seen in Sampson appeal
12/30/02 -
BOSTON - Alleged triple murderer Gary Sampson is expected to ask a federal judge on Friday to let him plead guilty to three murders in exchange for his own life. If he does, he will take a gamble that might just pay off.
Rape crisis center refuses order to release records
12/30/02 -
SALEM, Mass. - A rape crisis center plans to refuse a judge's order to release records of a teenage victim's visits to the center, saying the alleged rapist's lawyers wrongfully learned of her counseling by questioning her grandmother.
World/National News
Powell says U.S. seeking to talk with North Korea
12/30/02 -
WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Colin Powell, seeking a diplomatic solution to the nuclear crisis, said Sunday the United States is "looking for ways to communicate with the North Koreans" but will do nothing to help Pyongyang unless it changes its behavior.
N. Korea May Pull Out of Nuke Arms Treaty
12/30/02 -
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea was assessing on Monday whether communist North Korea was preparing to withdraw from the international treaty that seeks to halt the spread of nuclear weapons.
Oddly Enough
Over 100 cats removed from Pittston Maine house
12/6/02 -
PITTSTON, Maine -- Animal control workers said the smell was overpowering as more than 100 cats, many of them malnourished and sick, were removed from an elderly man's home.
Oddly Enough Archive
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A cross-country skier heads toward downtown POrtsmouth, taking advantage of snow in a roadway.
Staff photo by Deb Cram
North of Town
Casino foes ask judge to revise wording of question
12/30/02 -
ALFRED, Maine - Opponents of an Indian casino in southern Maine asked a judge to change the wording of a proposed statewide referendum on the issue while casino supporters sought to have the legal challenge dismissed.
Alternative drug program not threatened by court decision
12/30/02 -
AUGUSTA, Maine - Thirty-six-thousand Mainers will continue to receive prescription drug discounts despite last week's federal appeals court ruling that struck down the Healthy Maine Prescriptions program.
Complete Maine News
Editorials
Oft-criticized boomers worry as much as other generations
12/30/02 -
No generation has been more often bashed, vilified and analyzed than the baby boomers, the rebound generation that entered the world after 15 years of depression and war. Critics have assailed them as self-centered crybabies who didn't even have the gumption to go out and win a war, as their GI generation fathers and grandfathers did.
Editorial Archives
Obituaries
Seacoast Area Obituaries
12/30/02 - The following people passed on recently...
Obit Archives
Police Logs
Seacoast Area Police Logs
12/28/02 - Area police made the following arrests and conducted the following business recently...
Police Log Archives
Business News
Family has mastered organization by design
12/30/02 -
PORTSMOUTH - You’ve opened all those holiday gifts. Now you need to find a place to put them.
Report: Former Tyco CEO allowed to spend millions after freezing of his assets
12/30/02 -
NEW YORK - A judge has allowed the former Tyco International chief executive to spend more than $4 million since his assets were frozen in September.
Stock quotes and more......
Complete Business News
Column Spotlight
Columnist's Home Page
Read the work of many of your favorite Seacoast Newspaper columnists. Whether it be the cerebral slapstick humor of John Breneman, the witty humor of baby-boomer columnist Paul Briand, or the gen-x insight of She Said/She Said, you'll enjoy getting behind the stories with enlightened and often humorous takes on current news.
Friends of John B. - John Breneman
Boomer Angst - Paul Briand
On the Waterfront - Nick Brown
Politics & Other Mistakes - Al Diamon
Capitol Corner - Shir Haberman
John Whiteman
She Said/She Said - Amy Wallace/Gina Carbone
Photo Spotlight
Photographer's Home Page
Get behind the lense with our award winning photographers. Check out their photos, read their bios, and see why Portsmouth Herald Photographers are consistently judged as some of the best and most talented in the New England area.
Deb Cram
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Jackie Ricciardi
Sarah Zenewicz
Caleb Raynor
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