If convicted of capital murder, John Brooks could be the first person sentenced to death in New Hampshire in nearly 70 years.

A millionaire entrepreneur goes on trial today accused of orchestrating and participating in the beating death of a Derry trash hauler three years ago.

More than three years after the badly decomposed body of Derry handyman Jack Reid was found in the back of his own dump truck, the man who allegedly conspired to kill him faces a jury for the first time today.