John DiStaso's Granite Status: No more racing at Rockingham Park John DiStaso, the New Hampshire Union Leader's senior political writer, began writing 'Granite Status' in 1982. His influential reports on behind-the-scenes politics in the first-primary state are must reading every Thursday for insiders from Concord Police: Suicide call turns up marijuana operation SUNAPEE â?? Officers made a surprise discovery of a marijuana grow operation Friday when they were trying to locate a suicidal man at a Hilltop Drive home. Chief David P. Cahill said 39 plants along with drug paraphernalia were found in the basement The Kim Cates Law: Death for home-invasion killers The murderers who brutally killed Mont Vernon mother Kimberly Cates last October were saved from the death penalty by a strange fact: They decided to kill her in her own home. Had they forced Cates into their car first, they would be facing a possibl

Els takes the lead at Doral Ernie Els was in the lead and off the golf course, and he wasn't sure which made him feel better.

No. 2 Kentucky downs Alabama 73-67 to start SEC John Wall had 23 points, including seven straight in the second half to give the Wildcats the lead for good, and No. 2 Kentucky overcame an 11-point deficit Friday in beating Alabama 73-67 in the Southeastern Conference tournament quarterfinals.

LeBron returns with 23, leads Cavs over Sixers LeBron James had 23 points, 10 assists and six rebounds in his return from a two-game absence, and the Cleveland Cavaliers won for the 14th time in their last 19 road games with a 100-95 victory over the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday night.