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New Hampshire court records reveal that for John Madore, who killed a hospital security officer, guns and mental illness intersected in dangerous ways. John Madore was barricaded in his Strafford bedroom, with a loaded 9-millimeter pistol and an assault rifle next to him, warning the police officers on the other side of the door. He had just allegedly choked his sister until she couldn’t breathe and knocked his mother to the floor, according to court documents. “I have firearms,” an affidavit quotes Madore as saying, “and this is not going to end well.” That was Jan. 11, 2016, inside his...

At the urging of his family, Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson has checked himself into a 28-day alcohol treatment center. In a letter to the state's clergy and the country's bishops, Robinson said he has struggled for years with alcoholism and had considered his inability to beat it a personal failure. The Episcopal diocese declined to say where Robinson, 58 of Weare, is being treated. He checked himself into a center Feb. 1 and sent his letter to the clergy and bishops Monday. Yesterday, the diocese posted Robinson's letter on its website, along with one of support from the church's standing...