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Congressman Chris Pappas on Wednesday shared the devastating news that his nephew, Charlie Zink, is the teen who drowned in Sebbins Pond over the weekend in Bedford, New Hampshire. “There are no words to describe the magnitude of the loss of this amazing 15 year old or what he meant to all who knew and loved him,” Pappas wrote on…

A teenage boy drowned while swimming in a pond on Sunday in Bedford, New Hampshire, police said. The boy was reported missing around 7 p.m., Bedford police said in a statement. Officers who responded to Sebbins Pond attempted to locate the teen before requesting assistance from the Nashua Police Department dive team. After a roughly two-hour search, divers recovered the…

A Massachusetts man charged with fatally beating his domestic partner on a Maine beach was ordered held without bail Tuesday. Jeffrey Buchannan, 33, of Bedford, Massachusetts, is charged in the killing of his domestic partner, Rhonda Pattelena, 35, at Short Sands Beach in York, officials said. He appeared before a judge in York County on Tuesday. The judge also ordered…

Friends are remembering a mother of three from Massachusetts who police say was brutally murdered Friday afternoon on a beach in Maine by her domestic partner. Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach in York, Maine, after state and local police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman behind a large…

Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead on Short Sands Beach after police received multiple 911 calls about a man assaulting a woman there.

The death of a woman allegedly beaten by her boyfriend at a beach in Maine was ruled a homicide, according to state authorities. The state medical examiner’s office conducted an autopsy on Saturday and ruled Pattelena’s death a homicide caused by blunt force injury to the head. Maine State Police said the York Police Department received multiple 911 calls...

A Massachusetts man has been arrested after he allegedly beat his girlfriend to death Friday on a Maine beach. Police responded to Short Sands Beach in York shortly before 4 p.m. after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting a man assaulting a woman behind a large rock. Rhonda Pattelena, 35, of Bedford, Massachusetts, was found dead at the scene. Police arrested…

State police said the crash took place at the Bedford tolls on the Everett Turnpike southbound.

New Hampshire Democrats are seeking a court order to allow lawmakers with serious medical conditions to attend next week’s House sessions remotely. With 400 members, the New Hampshire House is one of the largest legislative bodies in the world and skews older in age. Since last March, lawmakers have met several times at the University of New Hampshire ice arena,…

Maria Macario has been living inside a Massachusetts church for over three years to avoid deportation to Guatemala.

Police in Bedford, Massachusetts, say a man who was reported missing has been found. Twenty-five-year-old Jacob Donahue left his home around 5:30 p.m. Friday, police said. Shortly before 10 p.m., police tweeted that Donahue had been found safe.

As the first COVID-19 vaccines began arriving in Massachusetts on Monday, a 96-year-old World War II veteran in Bedford became the first VA patient in the country to get the shot. The VA Bedford Healthcare system announced the milestone over social media, posting that Margaret Klessens, a resident of the Community Living Center in the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans…

Ninety-six-year-old WWII veteran Margaret Klessens made history Monday as the first VA patient nationwide to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Klessens, who lives at the VA in Bedford, says she was very happy to get a dose of it.

The first vials of COVID-19 vaccine have been distributed to hospitals and other medical facilities across the country over the weekend. Vaccinations are scheduled to begin across the country this week.

A Boston man who crashed his car into two vehicles and injured four people early Sunday morning in New Hampshire is facing a felony charge, state police said. The crash happened on Interstate 293 around 2 a.m. in Manchester, police said. Paul Bartlett Jr., 31, had been speeding on an overpass when he rear-ended a Toyota SUV, sending that vehicle…

The crash happened on Interstate 293 around 2 a.m. in Manchester, New Hampshire State Police said. Paul Bartlett Jr., 31, had been speeding on an overpass when he rear-ended a Toyota SUV, sending that vehicle into a guardrail, according to police.

There were long lines Tuesday morning in Stoneham, where polling places are bracing for any last-minute rush before the polls close. In Bedford, New Hampshire, the turnout appears to be record breaking. The town moderator says by the end of the day, Bedford will likely reach a 90-percent turnout, which is unprecedented for the town.

A Bedford public school canceled a scheduled visit Friday by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos after a staff member tested positive for the coronavirus, a spokesperson for the New Hampshire Department of Education said. “They had informed us this morning that they had a positive test and obviously wanted to cancel the visit” at McKelvie Intermediate School in Bedford, spokesperson Grant…

The decision regarding McKelvie Intermediate School was made by school officials in Bedford, according to a spokesperson for the New Hampshire Department of Education.

An 8-year-old boy from Woburn, Massachusetts, is recovering after a frightening incident in which he became tangled in his seat belt. Siobhan Sherbovich called the Bedford Police Department Saturday after her son, Brayden, was strangled by the seat belt next to him in her Acura. “He just said, ‘Mom, I can’t breathe, I’m stuck,’” Sherbovich recalled. The seat belt,...