Manchester News

To the Editor: Something seems wrong when a VA rated 100 percent disabled veteran cannot get the level of medical care Congress voted for themselves or even the choices their dependents have under ChampVA. Instead disabled veterans get if approved space-available treatment outside the VA system and time-available inside it.

In the late hours of a Sunday a year ago, the unconceivable again became thinkable. This time it was during the concluding performance of a three-day country music festival at the south end of Las Vegas Boulevard.

Cathy Merrill, a school bus driver, is currently a reigning world champion arm wrestler, having brought back two gold medals from last year's contest held in Hungary.

The FBI investigation meant to defuse the explosive conflict over Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sparked a new round of partisan combat Sunday, as the White House appeared to retain sharp limits on the probe even as President Donald Trump and Republican officials publicly suggested otherwise.

The death toll from twin disasters on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi, a major earthquake and the tsunami that followed, jumped to more than 800 on Sunday as rescue workers began to take stock of the wreckage ' pulling out survivors buried under the rubble from a collapsed hotel, treating patients in tents, and racing to get food and water...

The William B. Cashin Senior Activity Center, 151 Douglas St., is hosting free workshops on end-of-life planning and elder law.

J.D. Martinez hit a three-run homer in the fourth inning and the Boston Red Sox concluded the best regular season in team history with a 10-2 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park.

Patriots fans can come in off ledges around New England. The local bridges no longer have to be watched. Sharp knives can again be used without danger. Prescriptions can again be filled without worry. The local football team is back.

Welcome to New England, Josh Gordon. The troubled wide receiver, playing his first game with his new team, caught two Tom Brady passes in Sunday's blowout of the Dolphins, one early and another in the second half that saw him break two tackles for yards after the catch.

Italian Francesco Molinari fittingly took the glory as Europe regained the Ryder Cup from the United States in dominant style on Sunday, but it was a complete team effort that delivered what turned out to be a crushing 17.5-10.5 victory.

Jennifer Maki stood on the Beede Road bridge over Route 101 at Exit 6 to grieve for long-time friend Walter Welch Jr. Sunday afternoon. She said she felt she needed to visit the place where the 40-year-old Fremont man was killed during an encounter with a state trooper on the overpass early Saturday night. Authorities said the trooper fired his...

SANDWICH - Two campers who got lost during a day hike to Mount Israel found their way through the wilderness, spotting a power line in the dark and following it down until reaching a road about 3 a.m. Sunday, New Hampshire Fish and Game said.

The crowds were bigger and there were 60 vendors - 20 more than last year - offering a wide range of services from housing, nursing care, physical therapy, travel, food and financial services.

JAFFREY - A Massachusetts teen who was too fatigued to finish a hike on Mount Monadnock was carried to safety, arriving at Monadnock State Park headquarters early Sunday, the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department said.

Derek Kyler tossed three touchdowns in the third quarter to lead the Dartmouth football team to a 37-14 triumph over Penn in the Ivy League opener for both teams Saturday at Memorial Field in Hanover.

Try to stay away from the stream banks.

The Campbell High School football team shut out Trinity of Manchester in the fourth quarter and received touchdowns from Keegan Mills and Adam Breton to earn a 30-18 home victory in a key Division III battle.

The Kearsarge of Sutton bass fishing team caught eight fish to win its first-ever NHIAA state championship Saturday on Lake Sunapee.

Nobody, including Pelham coach Tom Babaian, saw this coming.

Sophomore Josh Bauer of Bedford scored a penalty kick goal with 4:13 to play, but an equalizing goal did not come as the University of New Hampshire fell to Binghamton 2-1 in America East men's soccer play.