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WEIRS BEACH ' The American Legion Department of New Hampshire unveiled a plaque Aug. 18 commemorating early the national organization's centennial anniversary at the New Hampshire Veterans' Association headquarters at the Weirs, the site of the first Department convention in 1919.

BEDFORD ' The Richard K. Harvell Post 8401 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars awarded more than 14,000 to 22 college students from the George Wiggin and Earl Isham scholarship funds on On Aug. 13.

An intriguing exhibition is taking shape at the New Hampshire Institute of Arts' Roger Williams Gallery, 77 Amherst St.

The Stanley Steamer was the most successful steam-powered car in history.

CONCORD ' Additional sexual misconduct allegations at St. Paul's School were detailed Tuesday involving four unnamed faculty and staff members, along with 21 more victims who have come forward in recent months.

Shane Bieber took a shutout into the seventh inning and Melky Cabrera collected a single, double and home run Tuesday night, helping the Cleveland Indians win a second straight game against the host Boston Red Sox, 6-3, in a duel of division leaders at Fenway Park.

A pair of ninth-inning errors on consecutive plays gave the Portland Sea Dogs a 3-2 victory over the New Hampshire Fisher Cats in an Eastern League game Tuesday night at Hadlock Field.

Fire officials say two women suffered life-threatening injuries Tuesday night when their car slammed into the back of a landscaping truck on the Amoskeag Traffic Circle, closing the busy interchange for hours.

Christine Freitas emphasized that her daughters, Jenna and Kelly, came up with the idea of Playing for a Purpose.

About one year ago, Timberlane Regional High School running back Jacob Post suffered a torn ACL in his left knee during the Queen City Jamboree.

As Pinkerton Academy girls' cross country coach Amy Bernard prepares her team for the upcoming season, she sees similarities between it and her 2015 NHIAA Division I championship squad.

A Colorado maker of sheds plans to set up a factory in southern New Hampshire and expand a Portsmouth call center as a result of buying its Portsmouth rival.

Gunstock Mountain Resort is again asking the Belknap County delegation to authorize the borrowing of 600,000 in revenue anticipation notes.

Arkansas is the most sexist state in the nation while New Hampshire is the least, according to an index of sexist attitudes developed by economists at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and National University Singapore.

Zack Fahey caught more than a fish when he began recording video moments before a large humpback whale breached just feet from his boat while fishing off Hampton Beach.

The guilty pleas came in the same hour that a federal jury in Alexandria, Va., convicted former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort of eight charges of tax and bank fraud and failing to disclose foreign bank accounts.

ROCHESTER ' Before he was killed in a gunfight with police Monday night, Douglas Heath had been on the run for nearly four months.

Four red-tailed hawks have been given a new lease on life after they were rescued, rehabilitated and released back into the wild one after another at an Epping farm Tuesday afternoon.

The failures of New Hampshire's child protection agency have become fodder for the gubernatorial campaign in the wake of yet another critical report on the Division for Children, Youth and Families.

DOVER - A Dover man is being held without bail after pleading not guilty to killing his wife and father.