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When you give a bully what he wants, he comes back for more.

To the Editor: Uh oh! McQuaid is drinking the Kool-Aid. He has made the New Hampshire congressional delegation and the liberal voters of the state happy.

To the Editor: I can not wait until Sept. 11 to vote for Andy Sanborn in the Republican primary for Congress in the First District.

State health officials expect to double the number of children with serious behavioral problems who get 'wraparound' services such as peer support, in-home counseling and respite care, after the federal government approved a change in the state's Medicaid plan.

The Post Band, the U.S. Army brigade band stationed at the headquarters of the Department of the South at Hilton Head on South Carolina's Port Royal Sound, was mustered out on July 4, 1865, after two years of service.

To the Editor: We have all seen it. A food shopping cart loaded with all the wrong stuff. Pushed by an obese adult, followed by one or more children, also obese. Talk about 'child abuse.'

A recent report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the 2018 Kids Count Data Book, ranked New Hampshire number one in the United States for overall child well-being.

To the Editor: Heat exhaustion can sneak up on you, causing increased body temperature, rapid pulse, headache and fatigue. If you don't get cool, you'll dehydrate, possibly suffer a stroke, or worse, die.

To the Editor: I read with interest Roberta Baker's Silver Linings column about first-time authors and self-publishing.

AARP New Hampshire is offering a 'Taste Tour' of beer, wine, cider and spirits that will get underway next week.

Stephanie Baxter has joined the New Hampshire Union Leader as community relations and events manager.

Q: My husband and I are New Hampshire residents, and we just learned we have the winning Powerball lottery ticket of a recent 64 million drawing. Are there steps we can take to protect this windfall?

To the Editor: I recently had the pleasure of visiting the 1763 Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., the oldest temple building in America.

A former Laconia Middle School teacher is under court order to have no contact with a girl who was in his eighth grade class when he worked at the Barnstead Elementary School.

The Granite State is getting a few days to dry out and clean up following a succession of heavy thunderstorms that swept across the state.

President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would allow the federal government to shut down if Democrats do not fund his border wall and back immigration law changes, betting that maintaining a hard line will work in Republicans' favor in November congressional elections.

Thanks to a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Gyorgy Levay has learned what they might feel like if prosthetic replacements were part of him. Levay was the principal volunteer subject in a two-year study at the university that endowed an artificial limb with the capacity to feel pressure and pain.

A 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren died as she tried in vain to save them from a wildfire that raged through an area of northern California and engulfed their home, officials and family members said.

In what has become a hallmark of Donald Trump's presidency, two very different versions emerged Sunday of a face-to-face discussion in a private meeting, held July 20 between Trump and A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times.

While the nation's big retailers battle for consumer dollars, they're now also waging a fight for seasonal workers.