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The Olympic torch began its trip through New Hampshire this morning in the seacoast city of Portsmouth.

Correspondent Roger Wood was on hand to see the flame carried through the downtown streets and files this report on the celebration.

Jurors have found Chad Evans, the man charged with killing 21-month old Kassidy Bortner guilty. A little more than one year ago, the baby died in a Maine hospital, about 10 days after state officials received a suspected abuse report. The Division for Children Youth and Families is the state office responsible for child abuse and neglect cases. As NHPR?s Dan Gorenstein reports, child advocacy groups wonder if DCYF could have done more to prevent the death.

The NH Humanities Council concludes its year of exploration of Asian culture and literature with the Japanese novel Snow Country, by Yasunari Kawabata.

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1968, Kawabata's fiction challenges and rewards western readers with a literary sensibility that is deeply Japanese.

Humanities reporter Kevin Gardner files this report.

Just before Christmas in the North Country town of Sugar Hill, Santa Claus makes a stop at the Meeting House.
Every child in town gets a present, courtesy of Santa, but with a little assistance from a group called the Willing Workers.
In Sugar Hill, it?s a Holiday tradition.
But Sociologists like to label it a form of Social Capital?..or community connectedness.
Small town New Hampshire tends to rich in Social Capital, but as Rebecca Brown reports, it can?t be taken from granted.

In total, states spend over $400 million a year to test students. The new federal education bill mandates annual testing of every student in grades 3 through 8. States are concerned about the costs of compliance and how testing should be used to improve schools.
See a complete list of how much each state spent on testing in 2001 www.nhpr.org/static/programs/nhtoday/focus_point/schools/testing_spendin...