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PORTSMOUTH – The City Council on Monday voted unanimously to give struggling restaurants "a small ounce of predictability" by guaranteeing the return of outdoor dining on March 1, 2021 weather-permitting.  Councilors also voted to turn the Citizen Response Task Force into a formal city Blue Ribbon Committee – a conversation that began with much pushback by some councilors but ultimately ended in compromise. Per the final vote, the task force membership will remain the same, but a city councilor will join as a non-voting member, ultimately reporting back to the City Council on the commi...

Going out camping for extended periods of time in the wildernesses with his dog. he seemed to like that type of isolation. >> hilton's dog dandy had been at his side since he started working for tabor. the former boss had come to regard hilton as a hair-triggered nut case. >> he often told stories of going to parks with his dog and he would end up in altercations with other pet owners. it it was always the same story. he would reprimand the other dog owners' behavior, then the other dog owner would get angry at him and verbally or physically assault him. so he was always the victim. >> for the...

On blood mountain, there was still no trace of meredith emerson. her friend julia and the other searchers found no news to be good news. >> i think it might be a good thing, that she might be somewhere warm with her dog, you know, and somebody might just have her. or something like that. kind of makes me feel a little better knowing that we haven't found anything here yet. >> while hundreds of volunteers and deputies scoured the forest for clues, detectives were trying to get it a handle on gary are hilton, the suspect in her disappearance and who was by now a person of interest in at least tw...

We all hoped she was alive. but, you know, the longer these things carry on, as time passes, you continue to hope but it diminishes after time. >> as the manhunt continued, there was a glimmer of hope. friday morning, four days after meredith vanished, the u.s. marshal's service traced activity on meredith's bank cards. >> the card was used at a local bank, 15 miles from the abduction site, and then again 50 miles south of the abduction site and then the next day 80 miles. these were attempts, where no money was taken. >> which suggests what? >> suggested that meredith wouldn't give him the ri...

Phone at a convenience store near where meredith's dog had turned up. you have a living pet, a missing owner and a phone somewhere in the vicinity of this guy you believe is her abductor. >> yes. while the agents are searching in the area of the convenience store, they look in a dumpster. it was in the dumpster we found meredith's identification, her purse, bags of bloody clothing. at that point, we felt that this was not going to turn out as we had hoped. >> the purse, three bloody fleece tops. agent kegel and his boss gave meredith's parents the grim update. then, around 8:00 that night, sti...