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State gets 45.8m grant in opioid fight
The federal government has approved New Hampshire's plan to create a 'hub-and-spoke' system of care to address the state's opioid epidemic. Now the real work begins.
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Federal officials to test people exposed to Pease drinking water contamination
Officials from the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry laid out their plans to test people exposed to contaminated drinking water at Pease International Tradeport during a meeting Thursday evening.
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AG's report answers some questions about Mount Washington property ownership, raises others
The Mount Washington Commission has released a 14-page Attorney General's report that answers some questions while potentially raising new ones about who owns what atop the highest mountain in the Northeast.
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Superior court makes switch to electronic filing for civil cases
Filing civil cases just got a little easier for lawyers with Tuesday's launch of a new electronic filing system for all superior courts in the state.
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Trump urges Republicans to 'get tough' on border wall spending
President Donald Trump pressed fellow Republicans in Congress on Thursday to 'get tough' and push to fund his proposed border wall in the current spending bill, raising the specter of a government shutdown when funding lapses later this month.
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ATT asks U.S. court to uphold approval of Time Warner acquisition
ATT Inc. on Thursday asked a federal appeals court to reject the Justice Department's challenge to its acquisition of Time Warner, saying the government had offered no basis for second guessing key conclusions of a ruling upholding the transaction.
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Pinkerton Academy relocating alternative learning program, proposing new driveway
Pinkerton Academy received approval to relocate its alternative learning program to a house on Tsienneto Road. Soon, it will present plans to build a new driveway near the house that leads into the east section of the campus.
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Audi holds E-Tron party, takes aim at Tesla
Audi unveiled the E-Tron, a battery-powered crossover that's due to hit showrooms later this year, during a big Monday night bash in Tesla Inc.'s backyard. Mercedes-Benz revealed its own electric crossover earlier this month, and BMW showed off another Tesla-fighting concept model on Sunday.
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Mysterious PAC in Deerfield
To the Editor: So who is the 'Win at the Door NHPAC' that is working our state representative race on behalf of three Republican candidates? Its literature supports 'Our Conservative Trio' and, according to one of these three candidates, they have been knocking on our doors all summer long.
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Sell the school: Wasted space in Laconia
For 27 years, the 200-acre campus of the closed Laconia State School has sat mostly unused.
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NH Club News: Peterborough Rotary hosts writing club
The Peterborough Rotary Club hosted the Avenue A Teen Center Creative Writing Club at its Sept. 17 meeting.
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Sununu stood up against subsidies
To the Editor: I want to thank Gov. Chris Sununu for trying to cut my electric bills. It is too bad that the Legislature overrode his veto of the massive biomass subsidy legislation and caved into special interests who require constant taxpayer bailouts and corporate welfare to stay in business.
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It's still the economy, stupid
To the Editor: In 1992, Bill Clinton rode to victory with the phrase, 'It's the economy, stupid!'
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Work begins on new bathhouse, upgrades to parking lot at Jenness State Beach in Rye
The Jenness State Beach redevelopment project began this week as the state moves ahead with plans for a new 1.2 million bathhouse and upgrades to the parking lot.
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Kavanaugh accuser won't testify Monday, may do so later in week
An attorney for Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who is accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers, said Thursday that her appearing at a hearing on Monday to detail her claims is 'not possible' but she could testify later in the week.
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NAFTA deal not yet in sight, Canada stands firm on auto tariffs
Canada and the United States showed scant sign on Thursday of closing a deal to revamp NAFTA, and Canadian officials made clear Washington needed to withdraw a threat of possible autos tariffs, sources said.
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N.Y. lawsuit targets student loan debt relief fraud
New York's attorney general on Thursday sued 10 companies and two executives over their alleged roles in a scam to induce thousands of struggling borrowers into buying student loan debt relief services that they could have received for free.
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Manchester man arrested after fleeing from police, hiding in dumpster
A city man is facing charges of resisting arrest and receiving stolen property after Merrimack police say they found him in a dumpster behind the King Kone ice cream restaurant Wednesday.
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NH man dies on top of train after leaving Yankee Stadium
A New Hampshire man was killed Wednesday night less than an hour after watching the Boston Red Sox lose to the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium, after officials say he climbed on top of a Connecticut-bound train, where he came into contact with high-voltage overhead electrified wires.
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Derry dog owner files suit against veterinary care clinic
A Derry pet owner has filed a lawsuit against the owner of Advanced Veterinary Care clinic, blaming the pet emergency-room clinic for the 2016 death of her schnauzer, which she had brought to the office with a tooth infection.
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