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Online readers gravitated to stories about energy – especially how to save money – local businesses opening and closing, questionable police tactics and hikers who died in the White Mountains more than anything else we published in 2022.A look at the...

Emily Sotelo, 19, was found dead on a New Hampshire mountain trail on what would have been her 20th birthday. Emily had only recently taken up hiking with little experience of winter conditions.

Olivera Sotelo’s 19-year-old daughter was late returning from a solo hike, and she wasn’t answering her phone. Panicking at the trailhead, Sotelo called her husband for help.“I could not stop my anxiety,” she said. Emily Sotelo emerged from the woods...

New Hampshire authorities say a 19-year-old college student who died on a quest to hike all 48 of the state’s mountains over 4,000 feet was woefully unprepared for the brutal conditions she encountered last month.

CONCORD — Olivera Sotelo’s 19-year-old daughter was late returning from a solo hike, and she wasn’t answering her phone. Panicking at the trailhead, Sotelo called her husband for help.“I could not stop my anxiety,” she said. Emily Sotelo emerged from...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Olivera Sotelo’s 19-year-old daughter was late returning from a solo hike, and she wasn’t answering her phone. Panicking at the trailhead, Sotelo called her husband for help. “I could not stop my anxiety,” she said.

Emily Sotelo's mother said her daughter was determined to make the world a better place.

“Emily had a lot of persistence, but you have to balance that with safety,” her father, Jorge Sotelo, told The Associated Press.

A month after her death, her parents want to create a nonprofit organization called the Emily M. Sotelo Safety and Persistence Foundation.

PSTAKE, the liquid staking protocol of Persistence, and Dexter, a DEX for liquid-staked assets, announced its plans to launch on the Persistence Core-1