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A 59-year-old Indiana man will be formally charged on Thursday with the 1988 murder of an 8-year-old girl after the decades-old cold case was cracked open by DNA evidence linked to a genealogical website, authorities said on Tuesday.

A judge with a U.S. labor agency on Tuesday rejected McDonald's Corp.'s proposed settlement of a major case on whether the fast-food company is accountable for alleged labor law violations by franchisees across the country.

Four U.S. states sued the federal government on Tuesday to void the new 10,000 cap on federal deductions for state and local taxes included in President Donald Trump's 2017 tax overhaul.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said on Tuesday he sees the United States on track for years more of steady growth, but was challenged in a congressional hearing by senators worried the Trump administration's trade policies were already damaging businesses in their districts.

To the Editor: People ask why Manchester can't be like Portsmouth. Why we can't be a destination for the arts? Why are families moving to other cities like Concord?

To the Editor: I wish to express my sincere appreciation to Rep. Sherm Packard, Rep. Dick Hinch, Rep. John Graham, and Rep. Kathleen Hoelzel for having filed and passed House Bill 1264 concerning properly defining residency for purposes of voting in New Hampshire.The bill has been sitting on the...

I am having a beautiful summer and I don't know why ' after all, I am a liberal Democrat obliged to be concerned about the oppressed, the underpaid, the critical shortage of honeybees, greenhouse gases, plastic waste on the ocean floor, meanwhile right-wingers in giant pickups with Confederate decals on the bumper and rifles in a gun rack in...

To the Editor: Right-to-work is not what it seems. Before labor unions, factory workers toiled six days a week, 12 hours a day. They often worked alongside children as young as 5 years old. Pay was terrible there were no health benefits or pensions.

Money is fungible. The funds that fuel political campaigns do not care where they came from, and for the most part, neither do the candidates.

President Donald Trump has a nasty habit of attacking our allies and coddling our enemies.

Last week, I wrote that the best way to think about a Trump Doctrine is as nothing more than Trumpism on the international stage. By Trumpism, I do not mean a coherent ideological program, but a psychological phenomenon or simply the manifestation of his character.

Thanks to a National Guardsman, two women were saved from a domestic violence altercation. A woman was driving her daughter to the airport when her estranged husband intentionally crashed his car into her vehicle.

An inmate at the federal prison in Berlin will spend two more years behind bars for assaulting staff members in May 2017, according to federal prosecutors.

People who thought a weak and dying Roosevelt gave away too much to the Russians at Yalta in World War II may want to reconsider. Compared to the pathetic, boot-licking performance of President Trump at Helsinki this week, FDR had his A-game going against Joseph Stalin.

A 15-year-old Goffstown boy is being treated for serious injuries in a Boston hospital after an accident involving his dirtbike and an automobile driven by a woman who was later charged with driving while intoxicated, say Goffstown police.

Police officers are facing a high-risk environment with opioid-fueled junkies who think they have 'superhuman strength' ' dramatically raising the stakes in violent encounters, law enforcement experts and forensic psychologists say.

The U.S. government paid 68,800 to President Donald Trump's golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, to cover the cost of Trump's visit to the course last weekend, according to a report Tuesday in the Scotsman newspaper.

Tiger Woods is still looking for that elusive 15th victory in a major tournament, and if it's going to come this week at the British Open, he's going to have to conquer the greens.

Tight end Rob Gronkowski is expected to report for the start of New England Patriots training camp on time, according to an ESPN report Tuesday.

Tuesday's doubleheader at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium between the Fisher Cats and Trenton Thunder was postponed due to bad weather and field conditions.