PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Many New Hampshire residents witnessed an unusual site Wednesday when four different military planes flew in formation overhead en route to Fenway Park.

The aircraft were traveling to Boston to fly over Fenway at the start of the Red Sox afternoon game against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.

Officials from Pease Air National Guard Base said that the formation was part of Air Force Week in New England. The KC-135 Stratotanker was from Pease, the F-16 jet was from Vermont, the F-15 was from Otis Air Force Base, and the A-2 plane was from Barnes Air National Guard Base.

Duncan were you piloting one of these??

Virginia Tech will offer the families of the 32 students and faculty members slain by Seung Hui Cho a one-time payment of up $180,000 from a fund used to solicit private donations in the weeks following the April 16 massacre, the administrator of the Hokie Spirit Memorial Fund announced today.

Kenneth R. Feinberg, the administrator, said the university plans to distribute all of the $7.5 million fund to the families of those killed as well as to the more than two dozen people injured during the shootings.

I don’t think I could accept the money. No. I know I wouldn’t. To me, it’s blood money, and no thanks.

OWASSO — Maye Ryan, who had been the oldest female Marine veteran in the nation, died Monday night at the Baptist Village, where she had lived for the last 14 years. She was 97.

…political observers will move beyond a discussion of negativity and begin to talk about incivility. There is a widespread belief that incivility – attacks that go beyond facts and differences and move toward name-calling and derision – is a serious threat to our electoral process.