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Criminal defendants are presumed innocent in the eyes of the law until they are proven guilty in a court of law.

Federal sky marshals, who travel incognito on various commercial flights, are said to be watching airplane passengers. The nerve.

To the Editor: Kristi Torbick's lawyer was defending her with all the resources he could, which is certainly what all of us would want, if we were in trouble.

To the Editor: I was dismayed to read the recent editorial entitled Is NH too White? which takes issue with our state's current policy of trying to attract a more diverse population as a way to strengthen our community and economy. It is certainly legitimate to discuss the best way to grow a strong workforce in New Hampshire, and whether our...

WE ARE UNDER 100 days from the Nov. 6 midterms, and Republicans are in much better shape than most prognosticators would have imagined even six months ago, much less than at the 100-day mark of President Donald Trump's tenure.

FORCING FREE and independent individuals to endorse ideas they find objectionable raises serious First Amendment concerns.The quote above ought to be an American truism. It certainly reflects the general principle of New Hampshire's state motto. It's hard to live free when the state confiscates a portion of your income to support a...

IN 1933, when America's most famous immigrant settled in Princeton, New Jersey, Franklin Roosevelt tried to invite Albert Einstein to the White House.

ALTON - A local handyman has been arrested, accused of hiding video cameras in homes where he worked to secretly record his clients in their bedrooms and bathrooms, police said.

CONCORD ' Candidate for Merrimack County Attorney Nicole Schultz-Price said she will refrain from any private practice if elected.

The New Hampshire Union Leader spelled out the abuse and the rushed licensing of the foster parents in a lengthy article last month. The article was based mostly on records that had been mistakenly placed in a court file. The newspaper was in court Thursday to urge a judge to unseal the case. Eleven lawyers were in Superior Court Judge Gillian...

A Portsmouth man was convicted Thursday of beating a former Planet Fitness employee to retaliate for the alleged theft of 30,000 by her boyfriend.

At least a half-dozen people who participated in a forum on diversifying New Hampshire's workforce have been the target of threatening phone calls and emails in the week since the event, and some of them have referred the messages to the Attorney General's office.

New Hampshire Fish and Game responded to a pair of hikers in distress Thursday, one on Mt. Chocorua, the other in Waterville Valley.

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats jumped out to an early 5-0 lead, but the Richmond Flying Squirrels came roaring back to win a wild game, 20-8, on Thursday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.

Steve Pearce homered off three different pitchers Thursday night and drove in a career-best six runs as the Boston Red Sox rallied from an early deficit to thump the New York Yankees 15-7 in the opener of a four-game series at Fenway Park in Boston.

The U.S. housing market ' particularly in cutthroat areas like Seattle, Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas ' appears to be headed for the broadest slowdown in years. Buyers are getting squeezed by rising mortgage rates and by prices climbing about twice as fast as incomes, and there's only so far they can stretch.

In a previous column, I noted that large losses on HECM reverse mortgages could be attributed to adverse selection. The program attracts too many borrowers in desperate financial condition and too few borrowers with options.

The stat seemed harmless enough: The Red Sox play better ' a LOT better ' against the weaker teams than against the good ones. The question is, does that really matter?

Presby Steel, the owner of the Isaacson Steel Fabrication Plant at 40 Jericho Road, Berlin, has agreed to lease the fabrication plant to the Mount Washington Cog Railway for use as an additional winter shop for the maintenance and building of its locomotives and passenger coaches.