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The allegations of sexual assault against U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh played out on Capitol Hill Thursday and sparked highly charged views in New Hampshire about whether to side with the judge or his chief accuser, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford.

DONALD J. TRUMP'S WEEK at the United Nations should squelch renewed chatter about his alleged mental instability and unfitness for office.

Hundreds of Uber drivers in New Hampshire will receive a portion of a settlement with the company following a data breach.

The Kiwanis Club of Manchester celebrated the reopening of a renovated basketball court at Sweeney Park with a ribbon-cutting Sept. 20.

THE 2030 AGENDA for Sustainable Development, adopted at the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly in 2015, set bold goals to shift the world onto a sustainable, resilient path.

We give developer Les Otten full points for persistence, if not for originality.

PRESIDENT TRUMP began his address to the United Nations this week with some of the boilerplate braggadocio that forms the basis of his rallies. The audience laughed. And, not surprisingly, this became the main story for most news networks and headline writers. That's too bad, because no matter what you think of the President, it was a more serious...

On Saturday morning at 10 a.m., state officials and members of the New Hampshire State Firemen's Association will gather outside the New Hampshire Fire Academy in Concord for the 12th annual memorial for New Hampshire firefighters who died in the line of duty.

A Lisbon man pleaded guilty Thursday to his part in the theft of the town police chief's personal ATV and also entered into an agreement with the state that directs him and two other men to pay nearly 70,000 in restitution for damage caused in three camper break-ins.

City smokers under the age of 21 could soon be out of luck, or at least find themselves shopping out of town after a committee voted to push forward on a proposal to increase the minimum tobacco purchasing age from 18 to 21.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday accused Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Elon Musk of fraud and sought to ban him as a director of a public company, saying he made a series of 'false and misleading' tweets about potentially taking the electric car company private.

To the Editor: Having retired from a 30-year career in public school teaching, I can't think for the life of me why anyone would want to destroy such a good thing.

For his top-10 finish in the Stroke Play and winning the Junior Championship, SamBarton was selected as the August Apple Therapy Ser ServicesBedford Ambulatory Surgical CenterExpress MED Athlete of the Month by the New Hampshire Union Leader Board of Judges.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned members of the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that they must 'set the example' by enforcing sanctions on North Korea as China and Russia suggested the council consider easing the tough measures.

President Donald Trump and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who oversees the probe into Russia's role in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, agreed to delay a planned meeting until next week so as not to interfere with a Senate hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the White House said on Thursday.

Liberty Utilities announced Thursday it is proposing a new renewable natural gas production facility at a privately owned Bethlehem landfill that it says will lower gas bills for New Hampshire customers starting next summer.We intend for this project to be the first of many in New Hampshire, and Liberty Utilities...

Richard Brunt, 74, appeared in a Manchester courtroom Thursday, but not for the 1984 cold case killing he is suspected of.

It took a jury about 20 minutes to find a Rye man not guilty of reckless conduct in the shooting death of a dog that had attacked his dog in the Rye town forest last year.

Fighting to salvage his U.S. Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh angrily and tearfully denied on Thursday a university professor's accusation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago and complained about a political hit after she told a dramatic Senate hearing she was 100 percent certain he did it.8232

CONCORD ' Merrimack County prosecutors have decided not to pursue criminal charges against four men accused of causing a riot at a Concord wedding earlier this year.