NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s former fixer Michael Cohen told jurors on Monday that the Republican presidential candidate personally signed off on a hush-money payment to a porn star to bury her story about an alleged sexual encounter before it could derail his 2016 campaign.
NASHUA — Victor Rivera, the 48-year-old Nashua man accused of shooting and killing two people in a downtown parking lot last September, is scheduled to go on trial early next year.
NORTH HAVERHILL — Troy Merner, the former state representative and Lancaster selectman who resigned after it was discovered that he was actually living in Carroll, on Monday asked a judge to dismiss charges that he defrauded the state by filing padded mileage-reimbursements forms.
A Louisiana church avoided possible tragedy Saturday when several churchgoers confronted an armed teen who entered the church during a First Holy Communion service for 60 children.
NEW YORK - Jury selection began on Monday in the corruption trial of U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, a case that could affect the Democrat's reelection prospects and help determine which party controls the Senate next year.
ISTANBUL - Turkish police arrested a man suspected of trying to smuggle valuable poisonous spiders and scorpions out of the country, with state media identifying the suspect on Monday as a curator at New York's American Museum of Natural History.
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