JAFFREY - Updated, 9:14 a.m. A car crashed into a utility pole and caught fire, injuring two people, according to a dispatcher.

LYNCH

CONCORD - Gov. John Lynch said he will propose up to $60 million in cuts to the state budget tomorrow, and spend the next seven months looking for ways to close the remaining budget gap estimated at $90 million. Lynch would not specify where $50 million to $60 million in cuts will be made.

EPPING - Police Chief Gregory Dodge said the search was part of a follow-up investigation from another agency that didn't involve an Epping case. Police said little else about the digging.

GRENIER

ROCHESTER - Updated, 12:07 a.m. Police yesterday identified a woman found dead at Christ the King Church on Route 108 as Marcie Lyn Grenier, but how she died remains undetermined. Police have called her death "untimely" but declined to say why.

NEWPORT - Prosecutors rested their case yesterday in the trial of a Charlestown woman charged with vehicular assault in the 2005 accident that killed two teenagers on a motorcycle.

FRANCONIA - Mittersill Ski Area would reopen and merge with the adjacent Cannon Mountain under a land swap that recently won a key federal approval. The swap calls for the U.S. Forest Service to transfer about 100 acres on the top of Mittersill to the state in exchange for 235 acres of state-owned land in Piermont. The Piermont land includes about a quarter-mile of the Appalachian Trail.

New Hampshire is not in the habit of following in the footsteps of Massachusetts, but there is a move under way to build on the attention received -- and any momentum generated -- by the passage of Question 3 in the Bay State.

REGAN

CONCORD - As CNBC's co-anchor of "The Call'' daily Wall Street report, New Hampshire native Trish Regan has sat at the center of the maelstrom through the subprime mortgage meltdown, the credit crisis and the $700 billion federal bailout of big banks and investment houses. Yet she remains optimistic.

A Wednesday editorial on Manchester's downtown bus station gave an incomplete picture of the decision to keep the station open at a cost of $10,000 a month.

Flipping the expendable Coco Crisp for an inexpensive bullpen arm with promise is just the sort of move Theo Epstein has to make.