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Roger Brown's H.S. Football: The North star
THOSE WHO FOLLOW NHIAA Division I football may not have been familiar with Curtis Harris when the current season began, but if you don't know who he is by now 8230 well, you just haven't been paying attention.
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SEA sues its ex-union chief she says it's to silence her
The past president of the State Employees' Association says she is being sued by the union in an attempt to silence her criticism of the SEA campaign against the state liquor commission.
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MIke Shalin's Working Press: Another challenge for Patriots
ANOTHER young quarterback for another early contender awaits the Patriots in Chicago Sunday. Mitchell Trubisky and Da Bears.
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Roger Brown's Grid Picks: Taking Merrimack, Monadnock in thrillers
Division I Friday Winnacunnet at Timberlane 6:30The Warriors bring an end to their two-game losing streak. Winnacunnet, 34-7.
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Long odds drive mega jackpots, but we're along for the ride
Friday night's Mega Millions jackpot is the largest in the game's history and the second-largest lottery prize ever in the U.S. These jumbo jackpots have become more common in recent years after lottery officials changed the rules and odds of the Mega Millions game last October to make jackpots pay out less frequently. The changes have resulted in...
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Girl hit by car near Nashua school just days after plea for more crossing guards
An 11-year-old girl was clipped by a car within a block of Elm Street Middle School on Wednesday afternoon, a week after school officials spoke of the need to fill several crossing guard positions.
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NH College Football: Dartmouth heads to Columbia
The Dartmouth football team will head to New York City this weekend for its meeting with Ivy League foe Columbia as one of four remaining unbeaten FCS teams and having won each of its games by at least 20 points.
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NHIAA Roundup: BG, Central girls advance
Brooke Yabroudy scored her second goal of the game in double overtime to propel the Bishop Guertin field hockey team to a 2-1 victory over Manchester Memorial in the first round of the NHIAA Division I tournament Thursday at Stellos Stadium in Nashua.
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UNH men, women both seventh in AE hoop poll
The University of New Hampshire men's basketball team tied for seventh place in the America East Conference's preseason coaches poll, which was released Wednesday.
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Ex-Wakefield code enforcement officer accused of selling forged permits to plead guilty
A former Wakefield code enforcement officer indicted for selling forged state shoreline and septic system installation permits plans to plead guilty.
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Fitzwilliam man, 70, killed in Mass. head-on crash
WINCHENDON, Mass. -- Police still investigating the crash the took the life of Fitzwilliam's Howard E. Chase.
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Six states may escape controversial Trump plan to spur offshore oil exploration, NH may be one
LOS ANGELESWASHINGTON Reuters - Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has hinted to at least six coastal states that he will keep their waters out of a looming plan to expand U.S. offshore drilling, telling some they lack enough oil to be included anyway, according to state officials and transcripts from public hearings.
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Belmont firm quietly contributes to top secret military programs
Tucked away in a cul de sac next to the town's post office is a company that is quietly producing the bulk of the power sources used in the most sophisticated and, at times, the most secretive defense programs in the world.
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Active shooter on Navy berthings barge at General Dynamics facility in Portsmouth, Va.
Police in Portsmouth, Virginia, were investigating a report of an active shooter, the department said in a post on Twitter on Thursday.Dispatchers received an emergency 911 call at 11:46 a.m. ET, police said, adding that no further information was available.The incident involved Navy personnel near a berthing barge by General...
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Foley Freedom Run Saturday in memory of Rochester journalist slain by terrorists
The James W. Foley Freedom Run is taking place Saturday morning in Rochester, and the slain journalist's mother says a free press is key to having an informed citizenry here and in other countries.
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NH school district to spend 38K on life coach for students at risk of dropping out
The local school district is planning to hire a life coach who will work with students at risk of dropping out of school.
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Police charge city man after Saturday gun discharge
Police have arrested a city man in connection to one of four reports of gunfire last weekend in Manchester.
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U.S. gives Saudis 'few more days' on Khashoggi probe consulate searched again
WASHINGTONISTANBUL Reuters - The United States on Thursday gave Saudi Arabia more time to investigate the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi as Turkish investigators searched Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul for a second time in a hunt for clues.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Mnuchin withdraws from Saudi conference
WASHINGTON Reuters - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Thursday said he would no longer attend next week's investment conference in Saudi Arabia, as the Trump administration awaited the outcome of investigations into missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
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All charges dropped against Concord psychologist sent to prison on word of 12-year-old patient
The decision announced on Wednesday comes a week after the state Supreme Court upheld a Superior Court ruling ordering a new trial for Foad Afshar.
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