On May 3, 2003, after a stormy night, someone looked up at the Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch in northern New Hampshire and saw he wasn't there.
The quintessential image of the Granite State — a rugged face and chin protruding from a hardscrabble landscape atop a mountain — collapsed despite decades of trying to save it.
The Massachusetts State Retirement Board has yet to rule on applications for pensions from 12 Massachusetts state troopers accused of getting paid for shifts they didn't work.
Six of the troopers retired rather than appear at a duty status hearing that could have resulted in discipline.
