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FILE - In this July 27, 2016 file photo, a pair of hikers traverse a trail on Mount Washington, N.H. New Hampshire Fish and Game officials said, Tuesday, June 18, 2019, they're likely to recommend charging an 80-year-old hiker who was rescued while trying to reach the summit of Mount Washington. James Clark, of Dublin, Ohio, was found Friday, June 14, 2019, immobile in the fetal position with signs of hypothermia. Lt. Mark Ober said his agency would likely recommend that Clark pay for...

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Eighty-year-old hiker rescued from Mt. Washington may have to foot the bill

by Michael Casey Associated PressJune 18, 2019

FILE - This Thursday, Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Md. The Food and Drug Administration’s first broad testing of food for a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds found high levels in some grocery store meats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, according to unreleased findings FDA researchers presented at a scientific conference...

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FDA food sampling finds contamination by ‘forever chemicals’

by Ellen Knickmeyer Associated Press, John Flesher Associated Press, and Michael Casey Associated PressJune 3, 2019

FILE - In this Monday, April 11, 2016 file photo, New Hampshire state and local officials load boxes of free bottled water in in Litchfield, N.H. New Hampshire is suing eight companies including 3M and Dupont for damage it says has been caused statewide by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in everything from pizza boxes to fast-food wrappers. The state becomes the second in the nation to go after the makers of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS and the...

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NH sues 3M, DuPont, others over ‘forever’ chemicals

by Michael Casey Associated PressMay 29, 2019

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Lawyer fighting palm oil among 6 to win environmental prize

by Michael Casey Associated PressApril 30, 2019

A ground nesting bee pollinates a flower in New Hampshire last year. The species is one of 14 declining wild bee species identified in a study published this month by researchers at the university.

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Key wild bee species on decline

by Michael Casey Associated PressApril 19, 2019

Emergency medical technicians carry a person on a stretcher into an ambulance outside the Quality Inn on Thursday, March 28, 2019, in Manchester, N.H. Two people had barricaded themselves in a first-floor room after one man was shot and killed there Wednesday night by police after he engaged Drug Enforcement Administration agents and police. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Three dead after 15-hour standoff with police

by Michael Casey Associated PressMarch 28, 2019

FILE - In this Nov. 23, 2018 file photo, Karen Dourdeville, right, brings in another deceased Kemp's ridley turtle for cataloguing and bagging by James Neilsen, left, at the Audubon Society's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellfleet, Mass. The organization said the number of beached Kemp's ridley, loggerhead and green sea turtles on Cape Cod have nearly doubled since 2016 to 818 and are 10 times higher than a decade ago. (Steve Heaslip/The Cape Cod Times via AP, File)

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New England seeing a huge spike in beached sea turtles

by Michael Casey Associated PressMarch 28, 2019

In this Jan. 18 photo, Neil Cederberg uses a pick pole to guide a 16-by-19-inch ice block into a channel on Squam Lake at the Rockywold-Deephaven Camps in Holderness, N.H. A 120-year-old tradition continues in order to provide refrigeration for the summer camp’s ice boxes.

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Resort keeps alive tradition of harvesting ice from lake

by Michael Casey Associated PressFebruary 6, 2019

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Dartmouth takes steps against sexual misconduct

by Michael Casey Associated PressJanuary 3, 2019

FILE- In this May 7, 2018, file photo released by the Manchester, N.H., Police Department, a young bear sits in a tree in the playground of Saint Marie's Child Care Center in Manchester. State wildlife officials tranquilized, captured and relocated the bear to the wild. New Hampshire Fish and Game Department's Bear Project Leader Andrew Timmons said they saw a record high number of abandoned bear cubs, 55 in 2018 compared to 14 last year. (Manchester Police Department via AP, File)

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Conflicts between bears, humans spike in NH

by Michael Casey Associated PressJanuary 2, 2019