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New England serial killer fears grip coastal town after paddleboarder’s ‘terrifying’ murder

New England serial killer fears grip coastal town after paddleboarder’s ‘terrifying’ murder

Peter Valentin, chair of the Forensic Science Department at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, says discovery of across three New England states over two months strikes him as "curious."...

Valley fever and your dog | Casey’s Corner

Valley fever and your dog | Casey’s Corner

Valley fever is on the rise in California. You may never have thought about whether your dog could contract this disease, but you should — especially since Chico, while it’s not in the heart of the Central Valley, is located in the northern part...

Q&A with Nathan Wilbur: New President of the Atlantic Salmon Federation

Q&A with Nathan Wilbur: New President of the Atlantic Salmon Federation

The new president of the ASF talks salmon, climate change, and Greenland expansion. The Atlantic Salmon Federation (ASF) announced Nathan Wilbur is taking over as its new president earlier this month. Wilbur started at the ASF in 2015 as New...

Lyme Disease Is Most Prevalent In The Northeast

This year is a bad year for ticks... Statista's Anna Fleck reports that new research has found that ticks are becoming more widespread due to changes in the climate, land use and human-animal interactions. The biggest risk areas are in...

These are the best states for retirement in 2025, study finds

These are the best states for retirement in 2025, study finds

FILE-A couple ride their bicycles through a neighborhood. (Photo by Robert Alexander/Getty Images) Retirement is a goal that most Americans look forward to after years of service at a job. Once you reach this stage in life, the burden of worrying...

NH's Shark in the Park Features MA Band, the WhatNots

NH's Shark in the Park Features MA Band, the WhatNots

The Shark's Summer Concert Series is on! Shark in the Park 2025 is a free community concert series featuring local bands of Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts on Wednesday nights throughout the months of July and beginning of August at Henry...

ENR East 2025 Top Contractors: After Revenue Jump, Region’s Firms Grow Cautious Over Outlook

ENR East 2025 Top Contractors: After Revenue Jump, Region’s Firms Grow Cautious Over Outlook

Robust tech, health care and infrastructure sectors boosted revenue for firms participating in ENR East’s Top Contractors list. The inaugural ranking of the largest regional firms reflects ENR’s consolidation of its multiple U.S. regions into five...

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System trustees approve $47.5 million settlement of class-action securities lawsuit

Arkansas Teacher Retirement System trustees approve $47.5 million settlement of class-action securities lawsuit

The trustees for the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System on Monday approved a $47.5 million settlement of a class-action securities lawsuit against Olaplex Holdings Inc., in which the system is the lead plaintiff. Mark White, the system's director,...

Cyclists stop in Paulding, Defiance on cross-country fundraising trip

Cyclists stop in Paulding, Defiance on cross-country fundraising trip

Todd Downey and Charlie Nuck are currently on a cross-country bicycle trip to raise funds for Angelman Syndrome research in memory of John Nuck, who passed away in April. Starting from Anacortes, Washington, they're cycling over 4,326 miles to Bar...

Map shows where sharks have been seen off Cape Cod this summer

Map shows where sharks have been seen off Cape Cod this summer

New maps show a large number of shark sightings last weekend in the US. Last weekend was one of the busiest in terms of shark traffic off the East Coast of the US, particularly in Massachusetts, where a few Great Whites were spotted off the Cape...

$50B Rural Health ‘Slush Fund’ Faces Questions, Skepticism

$50B Rural Health ‘Slush Fund’ Faces Questions, Skepticism

A last-minute scramble to add a $50 billion rural health program to President Donald Trump’s massive tax and spending law has left hospital and clinic leaders nationwide hopeful but perplexed. The Rural Health Transformation Program calls for...

Dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service becomes newest member of KFF Board of Trustees

Dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service becomes newest member of KFF Board of Trustees

Dr. Victoria DeFrancesco Soto, dean of the University of Arkansas Clinton School of Public Service, has joined KFF's Board of Trustees, the health policy organization announced Monday. DeFrancesco Soto previously held the role of assistant dean...

Healthy fishermen for a healthy America‬

Healthy fishermen for a healthy America‬

July 20, 2025 Guest Author:By Monique Coombs and Lauren Howard‬ The America First Seafood Strategy put forth in President Trump’s “Restoring America’s Seafood Competitiveness” executive order offers a promising vision for the economic resurgence of...

Marines Use MV-22B Ospreys in East Coast Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise 

Marines Use MV-22B Ospreys in East Coast Anti-Submarine Warfare Exercise 

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Victor Estes, from Ala., an MV-22B Osprey crew chief with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 162, drops sonobuoys out of an MV-22B Osprey during a flight near Surface Combat Systems Center Wallops Island, Virginia, July...

What’s Next Now That the CECOT Detainees Were Freed?

What’s Next Now That the CECOT Detainees Were Freed?

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Three Cases to Watch Friday’s repatriation of the Venezuelan nationals that the Trump administration had consigned to the hellishness...

Massive great white shark detected about 50 miles off Nantucket

Massive great white shark detected about 50 miles off Nantucket

July 21, 2025 / 12:11 PM EDT / CBS Boston 1,600-pound great white shark pings off coast of Nantucket 1,600-pound great white shark pings off coast of Nantucket 00:34 A great white shark weighing 1,653 pounds was recently detected about 50 miles...

World's first LIVING coffin: Eco-friendly casket is made from mushrooms - and the unusual method is already available in Britain

World's first LIVING coffin: Eco-friendly casket is made from mushrooms - and the unusual method is already available in Britain

When it comes to funerals, two choices usually spring to mind. Most people will opt for either a traditional ground burial in a wooden coffin or a cremation, which turns a person's remains into ashes. But an alternative method is now available -...

Aroostook County is finally getting a drug treatment court

Aroostook County is finally getting a drug treatment court

A new Maine law paves the way for a drug treatment court to open in Aroostook County, with $740,783 provided for staff and services. Last week, Gov. Janet Mills signed into law LD 779, An Act to Fund the Aroostook County Drug Treatment Court. The...

This Newfoundland angler is worried about the fate of the Atlantic salmon

This Newfoundland angler is worried about the fate of the Atlantic salmon

Wayne Fitzpatrick has been on the river most of his life. The 44-year-old remembers casting his first line when he was nine years old. "I find it takes all my stress away being on the river. I love being outdoors," he told CBC News. But now...

How I rediscovered the virtue of citizenship on a remote Canadian island

How I rediscovered the virtue of citizenship on a remote Canadian island

Irish political scientist Benedict Anderson defined a nation as an imagined political community — “imagined, because the members of even the smallest nation will never know most of their fellow members, meet them, or even hear them.” As a young...

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