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To the Editor: Recently, after 30 years, our road was finally to be repaved this year.

To the Editor: Once again, the Catholic Church is under attack over the sins of the clergy.

Hurricane Maria's devastation in Puerto Rico led to a spike in mortality across the U.S. territory, with an estimated 2,975 excess deaths in the six months after the storm made landfall, according to a sweeping report from George Washington University released Tuesday.

Jon Berti hit for the cycle, leading the New Hampshire Fisher Cats to an 8-4 victory over the Portland Sea Dogs on Tuesday night in an Eastern League game at Hadlock Field.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday Google's search engine was hiding 'fair media' coverage of him and said he would address the situation, taking a swipe at the internet giant without providing evidence or giving details of action he might take.

Nancy Tessier, the former elementary school principal who holds an at-large seat on the Manchester school board, resigned her position as of last week.

Charges of nepotism and personal animus provided a fiery backdrop for an emergency meeting Monday evening on the paving of Hackett Hill Road.

As students in school districts across the state return to classrooms in the sweltering humidity of a late August heat wave, Gov. Chris Sununu is taking steps to prevent school districts from starting the school year before Labor Day, through an initiative he calls 'Save our Summers.'

A 34-year-old man had his ear nearly ripped off when a train passed over him early Tuesday morning as he slept between railroad ties on a railroad line adjacent to a homeless camp, a city fire official said.

School coaches called off games and people flocked to air-conditioning as a short-lived heat wave intensified on Tuesday.

A violent head-on crash killed one passenger, injured five others and led to a good Samaritan crashing her own car at the chaotic scene on Route 11 Tuesday afternoon, police said.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has ruled that an 87-year-old woman found dead in her home Aug. 15 likely died as a result of a medical condition and not criminal activity.

Coca-Cola Co. will buy New England cult-favorite soda brand Moxie from one of its independent bottlers as it looks to house more of its up-and-coming beverage brands under one roof.

NORTH HAVERHILL - Michael Lewis, the ex-chief of police in Bristol, is facing an upgraded charge of misdemeanor sexual assault, alleging that he touched a woman's buttocks for the purpose of sexual arousal or gratification.

The legal team representing the Rhode Island man charged with shooting his mother to death in her New Hampshire hospital bed intends to use an insanity defense.

WOLFEBORO - A Connecticut man was arrested for domestic violence assault and taken into protective custody for intoxication after he allegedly fled the scene in a boat.

Two sisters tangled with police officers after they were found inside a North End home early Tuesday morning, one bleeding from broken glass on a back door that she was accused of damaging in order to enter the structure.

A licensed nursing assistant from Portsmouth has been charged with assault after she allegedly covered the mouth of a 92-year-old woman in her care.

An 18-year-old local woman has been charged with multiple hit-and-run accidents.

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