State Employees� Association bargaining officials voted, 56-48, against a proposed two-year contract for state employees reached this week with state negotiators. They then voted to send union negotiators back to the state for further talks.

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Courts/Oversight

Defense prods trooper at Robarge trial

Teen driver's lawyer: Women hit by car 'comparatively negligent'

Top Seacoast Democrat says county attorney's should be appointed by elites, not elected

NHSUPCO reverses drug conviction stemming from flicked-cigarette-butt traffic stop

Extradition hearings in Canada for former Nashuans Barnaby, Caplin are postponed

Plea deal reached in Kenneth Day rape case; hearing set for next week

Lawyer: Virtual child porn protected under First Amendment

Fired Hampton fire chief sues town

Opinion

Watchdog.org - Steve MacDonald: New Hampshire embracing anti-Obamacare policies amid its own health care failures

Concord Monitor fans anti-Patriots fervor over allegedly soft football

Concord Monitor laments professed rise in child poverty

PolitiFact NH: Lawrence Lessig compares the number of fundraisers between Presidents Reagan and Obama

Ward Carroll: 7 key military life hacks that matter in civilian life

Jamelle Bouie: Why some states can�t celebrate MLK without remembering Gen. Robert E. Lee too

General News

NH driver triggers double fatal in Vermont that closed I-91

Preliminary investigation revealed that a motorist, Neal Robinson of Stoddard, New Hampshire, lost control of his vehicle and came to a stop in the passing lane.

Woman receives bag full of cash at Burger King drive-thru in Rochester

ROCHESTER � After going through the drive-through at Burger King Friday, a local woman discovered that instead of the sweet tea and junior spicy chicken sandwich that she ordered, she got a bag full of money.

Chemical test that finds carcinogen unnerves Hanover school

Hanover� A positive test for a potentially carcinogenic compound earlier this week caused a stir at Richmond Middle School, which sits on a parcel that has been contaminated by the chemical.

Suspended sentence for NH man who photo-shopped head shots of Wyckoff girl, 12, onto naked women

A New Hampshire widower who photo-shopped head shots of a 12-year-old Wyckoff girl onto images of naked women after showing her pictures of his penis got off with a suspended sentence today.

The Guardian: The history of trouser leg flares - in pictures

American sailors were the first to adopt bell-bottomed trousers in the 19th century.

High-Stakes Online Poker: NH's Ben Sulsky in second place this year with $340K in winnings

Poker pro Ben Sulsky, who hails from New Hampshire, sits in the second spot with about $340,000 in winnings so far this year.

NYT: A conversation with the Archbishop of Canterbury

Q. Do you think that the American Episcopal Church made a mistake in consenting to the election of Gene Robinson, an openly gay priest who was elected bishop of New Hampshire?

Bus service for handicapped, elderly in Belknap County to receive $238,278 infusion from feds

The cost for seniors to ride within one town is 50 cents one-way and $1 one-way for ages 12 to 59. Children under 12 ride for free.

Sarah Silverman Gets Serious at Sundance

Silverman plays an alcoholic suburban mom having a cocaine-fueled affair and wrestling with mental illness. At one point she gets beaten bloody in an alley.

$90,000 Pumpkin Festival bill now past due

The organizers of the Keene Pumpkin Festival have yet to pay a more than $90,000 bill for overtime paid to the police officers, firefighters and public works staff who worked at the event and responded to the riots that erupted on the festival's outskirts.