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December 23, 2015 at 8:52 am

Suit: Cards, drawing ban at New Hampshire prison is unlawful

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The state's effort to cut down on drug smuggling in prisons by banning all greeting cards and handmade drawings sent to...

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November 16, 2015 at 6:56 am

After dog’s death, an effort to ban guns to put pets down

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The death of a brown-and-white, mixed breed named Bruno on the northern fringe of New Hampshire's White Mountains has sparked an...

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Clever stacking of firewood on the front porch of Terri and Bob Tomchak’s cozy home in Bridgton, Maine, allows them to enjoy the view from their living room window, Friday, Oct. 23, 2015. The couple burns about four cords of firewood each winter. Some consumers who may have switched over to wood over the past several years as heating oil prices ratcheted up are feeling a little buyer’s remorse but continue to keep the woodpiles stocked even as prices push over $400 a cord. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

October 28, 2015 at 9:14 pm

Why does firewood cost so much? Fracking’s part of it

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Northeasterners who are digging deeper into their pockets to pay for firewood this season can add a new scapegoat to the...

October 15, 2015 at 6:41 am

Pens resembling hypodermic needles stir ire amid drug crisis

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Pens that look like hypodermic needles are being sold as Halloween novelty toys, stirring concerns among parents and drug abuse prevention...

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October 4, 2015 at 10:39 pm

Mass shootings grab headlines, but others go under radar VIEW

The numbers jump off the page: Nine dead on an Oregon college campus, 12 in a theater in Aurora, Colorado. Thirteen soldiers and civilians at...

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September 20, 2015 at 8:28 am

America’s Stonehenge: New Hampshire rocks history or hoax? VIEW

SALEM, N.H. (AP) — Using the astronomical chart on a table in the covered tower, visitors aim their gaze along worn arrows to huge, upright...

August 12, 2015 at 7:01 am

Allies of pivotal civil rights victim reflect 50 years later VIEW

KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Fifty years after Jonathan Daniels was shot dead by an ardent segregationist in Alabama, the people who stood with him then...

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December 22, 2014 at 1:09 pm

Killings of 2 New York officers trigger backlash

Civil rights leaders Sunday condemned the ambush killings of two New York police officers and expressed fear that the backlash over the bloodshed could derail...

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December 22, 2014 at 3:00 am

Killings of 2 New York officers trigger backlash

Civil rights leaders Sunday condemned the ambush killings of two New York police officers and expressed fear that the backlash over the bloodshed could derail...

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October 9, 2014 at 3:20 am

Mom, beau plead not guilty in alcohol-in-IV death

A man told police he poured vodka into the IV feeding tube of his girlfriend's disabled 13-year-old son to settle him down, a dose of...

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