Manchester News

WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Wednesday night started the clock for Senate confirmation of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, with a preliminary vote set for Friday and a final vote on Saturday.

The state Attorney General's Office has identified State Trooper Kevin Dobson as the trooper who discharged his firearm last Saturday in an incident in Epping that left a Fremont man dead.

Chronic wasting disease was recently discovered in the Canadian province of Quebec for the first time in a red deer from a captive facility.

HAVERHILL ' Conservation officers say a 79-year-old Lebanon man reported missing by family members was found alive late Wednesday after being submerged up to his neck in a swamp for more than 33 hours.

A 39-year-old Pelham man faces a drug charge after police say they encountered him in the parking lot of the Firebird Motel on Wednesday night.

Aaron Judge hit a two-run home run in the first inning, and Giancarlo Stanton later added his first career postseason homer as the New York Yankees advanced to the American League Division Series on Wednesday night with a 7-2, wild-card game victory over the Oakland Athletics at raucous Yankee Stadium.

To the Editor: I agree with a former prosecutor friend of mine who said when he heard Brett Kavanaugh's testimony, replete with rants, outbursts, and diatribes, he knew he was listening to a guilty person, someone wholly lacking in judicial temperament.

REPUBLICAN LEADERS are 'a bunch of wimps,' said Jerry Falwell Jr. Conservatives and Christians need to stop electing 'nice guys.'

PREFERRING VERBAL felicity to practical wisdom, a character in a Benjamin Disraeli novel quipped, 'A majority is always the best repartee.' Not really. Open societies that want to remain so should prefer persuasion to raw power, even the power of majorities. Which is why Republican Sen. Jeff Flake served the nation, its highest...

Statistics released this week by emergency responders show 214 individuals visited a Manchester fire station seeking access to treatment for addiction through the Safe Station program, a new record for intakes in a single month since the initiative debuted in 2016.

Harvard Law School's decision to cancel the course on the Supreme Court taught for the past decade by Judge Brett Kavanaugh says much more about Harvard Law School than it does about Kavanaugh.

Manchester City Solicitor Emily Rice this week rejected a request from the New Hampshire Union Leader for a copy of the video from city library security cameras that depicts the arrest of Clifford Etadafimue on Sept. 24 in the library.

THEY LIVE on the street, often foraging through dumpsters. Some threaten us. Occasionally, they assault people.

To the Editor: Since President Obama has left office, his acts of appeasement and political correctness set in motion certain events that could compromise and eventually put our country in danger of those enemies, foreign and domestic, who want to destroy our free way of life in America.

A Chicago-based private equity firm has made a financial investment in Windham-based Medicus Healthcare Solutions, one of the state's fastest growing private companies.

The New Hampshire State Grange will host its 145th annual session, or convention, at the Best Western Hotel in Keene. State Grange Master Chris Heath will rap the gavel to open the four-day session at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25.

Dozens of residents attended a public hearing Wednesday eager to learn more about the proposed widening of a 12-mile section of the F.E. Everett Turnpike.

The town of Dummer and Mariann Letarte, its former town clerk and tax collector who earlier this year was convicted of embezzling almost 150,000, will go to trial next year to settle how she will make restitution.

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Molly Kelly took her campaign to New Hampshire's longest standing abortion provider on Wednesday, hoping to highlight her support for abortion rights and calling on pro-choice Republican Gov. Chris Sununu to oppose the nomination of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.

On Tuesday, members of the Economic Development Advisory Committee discussed the progress the town has made in filling industrial vacancies and preparing a feasibility study of how a town-owned parcel of land could be used.