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Customer service phone lines routinely tell consumers their 'call is being recorded for quality assurance purposes.' But a new Walmart patent shows the retailer might someday collect checkout line sounds and capture conversations between customers and the cashier ringing up their milk and diapers.

There is absolutely no reason for New Hampshire to have the death penalty.

George Will was once regarded as the eminent columnist. Then George, with the advent of Donald Trump on the presidential campaign scene, began berating Trump as a buffoon. As Trump progressed through the Republican primaries, George's vitriol increased.

I'm proud to endorse Mindi Messmer for Congress in the First Congressional District. Serving with Mindi the past two years in the New Hampshire House has seemed like much more due to her extraordinarily productive first term.

In June, 45-year-old Robert Carrigg of Hooksett allegedly walked up to 25-year-old Riman Douedari in a downtown restaurant and yanked at the woman's hijab, a garment worn by some Muslim women that covers the head and chest.

No one can know for sure how a U.S. Supreme Court justice will rule on the divisive issues that come before the court. Eisenhower rued naming Earl Warren to the court. George H.W. Bush, and Chief of Staff John Sununu, were chagrined by David Souter's veer to the left.

Gov. Chris Sununu promised to veto any legislation that would make it harder for college students to vote in New Hampshire. When Democrats claimed that a bill clarifying the state's voter residency requirement would do just that, Sununu asked the New Hampshire Supreme Court for an advisory opinion.

IT IS A PRUDENTIAL axiom: If it isn't broken, don't fix it. This reflects the awareness that things can always be made worse, and the law of unintended consequences, which is that they often are larger than and contrary to intended ones. As baseball reaches the all-star break amid lamentations about several semi-broken aspects of it, it is time to...

OF PRESIDENT Donald Trump's explosion at Angela Merkel's Germany during the NATO summit, it needs to be said: It is long past time we raised our voices.

Police are asking for help in locating Skyler Heselton, 16.

After receiving an advisory opinion from the New Hampshire Supreme Court finding the bill to be constitutional, I signed HB 1264 into law this past Friday. New Hampshire will now align with virtually every other state in requiring residency in order to vote.

A state police helicopter seen hovering over an area near the McDonald's on Portsmouth Avenue Wednesday was part of the investigation into the alleged murder of a woman found dead after a mobile home fire last month.

A civil warrant for the arrest of New Hampshire mortgage broker Michael Gill has expired.

The search for a 32-year-old female kayaker whom authorities said fell into the Piscataquog River and didn't resurface will resume this morning, but authorities are terming it a recovery effort after rescuers failed to find her Thursday night.

Matt Paradis, of Concord Country Club, will face Carter Country Club of Lebanon's Pat Pelletier in the 36-hole championship match of the 115th edition of the State Am today at 8 a.m. at Hanover Country Club.

The 37th New Hampshire Open starts today at the Waterville Valley Tennis Center with a field that includes the defending champion, a former winner and some Granite State talent.

Serena, Kerber set to clash in Wimbledon final

Whlle just about everything is going right for the Red Sox these days, they opened their four-game pre-All-Star series with the Blue Jays Thursday night with a problem. The infield.

The Hooksett Garden Club's next meeting on Wednesday, July 25, will feature a program on container gardening by the club's president, Ron Trexler. The program is free and open to the public.

Crescencio Tellez can't wait to show off some of his new dishes at Dover Dines Restaurant Week.