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An observant Goffstown police officer stopped a burglary in progress at a local self-storage business early Thursday morning, police said.

The teams in last season's Division I state championship game will start this season on top of the 2018 Union Leader High School Football Power Poll. It's the runner-up, though, that starts No. 1.

To the Editor: After I heard Eddie Edwards first speak about his history in the U.S. Navy and his law enforcement career, he went on to explain how he would represent New Hampshire.

An advocate for immigrant families and a University of New Hampshire student activist testified that the state's new election law would suppress turnout among students, the homeless and newly minted American citizens as the hearing on Senate Bill 3 entered its fourth day in Hillsborough County Superior Court.

All mail to New Hampshire prisons will be held for a short period of time, after staff and inmates in several out-of-state prisons became sick after coming in contact with unknown substances, New Hampshire corrections officials announced.

Three young men from Florida face theft and fraud charges after they allegedly loaded up the credit cards they found in a backpack of someone who mistakenly left it on a Boston Express bus, said Manchester police.

HAMPTON - The state's epidemiologist said Thursday that a person has died from complications officials believe were connected to the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Hampton.

Erin VanDalinda was so concerned about her safety living next to Catrina Costello that she went to court last year to get a protective order.

A Seabrook woman is charged with second-degree murder after she allegedly aimed her truck at a neighbor and then accelerated as she plowed into him and his wife while they were walking their dog early Wednesday evening.

DOVER - Juniors and seniors described Dover's new 87.4 million high school as 'breathtaking' when they entered the building Wednesday.

The search for a missing North Woodstock woman entered its second day Wednesday with a large contingent from New Hampshire State Police and other agencies staging at the Mill Brook Christian Fellowship church ' next door to a home at 225 Main St. surrounded by crime-scene tape.

In response to an apparent rat infestation in and around the area of Laurier and Davignon streets, the Goffstown Building and Health Department is in the process of putting together an informational mailer for residents on how to avoid further attraction of the unwanted visitors.

Two new businesses are moving into the Apple Tree Mall, a shopping plaza that recently came under new ownership.

On Wednesday, members of the military, elected officials, and local citizens gathered to commemorate the ribbon cutting of the New Hampshire Army National Guard's newest Field Maintenance Shop FMS on Hooksett Road.

A local insurance executive and the Londonderry Police Department are teaming up with Prosciutto's Pizza to encourage kids to wear helmets when they ride bicycles.

At the beginning of the month, the town's Department of Public Works announced that the brush pile at the transfer station would close until further notice, but reopened it briefly on Aug. 16, 17 and 18 before closing it again.

I LAY ON A COUCH at a clinic last week, watching my echocardiogram on a screen, and made a firm resolution, the 10th or 12th in the past couple years, to buckle down and tend to business, fight off distraction and focus on the immediate task, walk briskly half an hour a day, eat green leafy vegetables, drink more liquids, and finish the projects...

To the Editor: When two or more people get together, be it on a bus ride, a social gathering, a playing field, or a work or family setting, there is always politics because there are various issues to be addressed. Each of us human beings are unique and with this diversity comes strength and various ways of approaching life.

In my backyard I've seen waddling woodchucks, a trio of foreboding fishers, a plump skunk in the mid-morning, Cooper's hawks, a colony of angry bumblebees, and an alleged rabid raccoon. Each time I shuddered with fear.

A BUSY WEEKEND lies ahead for short track fans with many special events and pivotal divisional championship action. Most tracks will race on their customary weekly night while Claremont and Thunder Road offer extra-distance touring events Sunday.