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A state representative from Salem who is facing felony welfare charges may have his charges dismissed in exchange for paying restitution.

Granite Staters love their lottery tickets - especially their scratch tickets.The New Hampshire Lottery set a record for yearly sales, selling 331.8 million in tickets in the year ending June 30.Scratch-ticket sales produced 238.3 million in revenue - up nearly 15.4 million, or 6.9 percent, from last year.

Senate Democratic leader Jeff Woodburn, 53, was arrested Thursday and charged with nine misdemeanor counts of sometimes violent contact with his 'intimate partner,' Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald announced. The chairman of the state Democratic Party called on the party's highest ranking member at the State House to resign...

A veteran Derry police officer is off the job and faced a criminal investigation after a former girlfriend accused him of domestic-related assaults and activity with prostitutes, according to a police file obtained by the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Before Elliot Hospital builds its new 19 million cancer center, it plans to construct a 362-space parking garage for 6.7 million.

President Donald Trump's political rally in Florida on Tuesday night turned into a coming-out party for one of the most bizarre conspiracy theories to emerge during his presidency.

A fire damaged the top floor of a vacant three-story building Thursday morning where neighbors said they've complained for years about vagrants going in and out.

Friends of a man who died as a result of injuries suffered during an assault outside a Manchester bar last month say he was a 'love bug,' a 'huggable bear' who would do 'anything for anyone.'

Jay Knower's first encounter with the Rumney Climbing Area was in 2003, and it hooked him. Fifteen years later he's still climbing there and speaks with the enthusiasm and passion of a first-time visitor to the popular cliffs.

Thrust into the superintendent role after Chip McGee's resignation on Friday, Michael Fournier says he intends to lead with consistency, openness and transparency.

Statistics released this week by officials with American Medical Response New Hampshire show medics treated 72 overdose victims in Manchester in July ' the most in one month so far this year, and highest total in one month since October of 2017.

The 16th annual Barnful of Blues Festival is headed back to the Youth Center on Saturday for a night of good music for a good cause.

TODD PATNODE of Swanzey drove to the biggest win and largest payday of his accomplished short -track career Sunday at Star Speedway.

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Brookstone Co. Inc. announced Thursday it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had begun the process to close the company's remaining 101 mall locations.

The annual Go Topless Day at Hampton Beach is scheduled for Aug. 26 and organizers say it's more important than ever to normalize the female body.

Some people ' and I know a few ' wonder why on earth anyone would choose to sleep outside when there is a perfectly good bed inside.

The former resident of the Country Village Center nursing home who triggered an evacuation of the facility after spraying an employee with bear repellent is the subject of an active arrest warrant, said Police Chief Timothy Charbonneau.

The Portsmouth man accused of beating a Planet Fitness employee to retaliate for the alleged theft of 30,000 by her boyfriend is on trial at Strafford County Superior Court.

A Lawrence, Mass., man will serve more than three years in federal prison for selling oxycodone pills in New Hampshire.