State and local police spent much of yesterday digging up a section of a property along Friend Street.

The driver of a stolen Ford Explorer drove off at speeds greater than 85 mph when a Hillsborough County deputy tried stopping him at Causeway Boulevard and 78th Street on Monday night, deputies say.

A Charlestown woman accused of negligence in a 2005 fatal accident is set to stand trial next week on misdemeanor charges in Sullivan County Superior Court.