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What’s worse than a public body denying access to an investigator’s report that was paid for with taxpayer money?
CHARLES ARLINGHAUS
Last week, Lamar Alexander proposed a budgeting swap that New Hampshire should support.
KATHY SULLIVAN
The Vaillancourt blow-up, and to a lesser extent, the Mead mini-scandal, overshadowed a more serious controversy: the war that has erupted against New Hampshire’s public schools. It is not just...
EDITORIAL
Manchester will get back its second animal control officer come July 1. That is probably a good thing, given what seems to be an increase in wild varmints entering the city.
THOMAS SOWELL
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us.
BY PAT BUCHANAN
Among the more controversial chapters in “Suicide of a Superpower,” my book published last fall, was the one titled, “The End of White America.”
EDITORIAL
Unfair foreign trade hurts New Hampshire. According to the Economic Policy Institute, the state lost 16,300 jobs between 2001 and 2010 because of China's trade practices.
EDITORIAL
Until recently, you could go to the official website of the White House and find a brief biographical page on every American President. But now there's a twist.
BY DAVID HARSANYI
The unscrupulous can't win for losing, apparently.
BY JONAH GOLDBERG
This is the season of generational twaddle. At graduation ceremonies across the country, politicians, authors, actors and businessmen take to the stage to tell young people they are fantastic simply...

City teachers' union rejects contract proposal

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Manchester schoolteachers have overwhelmingly rejected a proposed contract modification that was touted as a way to save the jobs of some of the 143 teachers who have been told they will be laid off...

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Soltani indicted on felony in connection with police chase

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State Rep. Tony Soltani, R-Epsom, said he is “delighted” that prosecutors are charging him with a felony, rather than a misdemeanor, in connection with a high-speed chase on Route 28 that...

Lynch cites safety, uses his veto pen

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Gov. John Lynch cited concerns raised by top state safety officials Wednesday when vetoing a bill that would prohibit New Hampshire motor vehicle records from being used in any federal identification...

Monitor gets complaints over O'Brien's 'Hitler-like mustache' in cartoon

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Republicans expressed outrage Wednesday over a Concord Monitor opinion page cartoon depicting House Speaker William O’Brien with a Adolf Hitler-like mustache.

Four hurt in fire aboard sub at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard

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A fire broke out in a forward compartment of a U.S. Navy nuclear submarine docked at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard on Wednesday night, according to shipyard officials.

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Kidnap suspect back in court

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A one-year deferred jail sentence, on a 2009 domestic assault involving his wife, was imposed Wednesday on the man charged with kidnapping his pregnant ex-girlfriend last week.

Anthony Papile is shown after his arrest last year.

Plea, sentencing expected in death of Maine mother

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A 29-year-old Ossipee man charged with murder for allegedly clubbing to death a young mother and leaving her toddler in an idling car near a North Conway snowmaking pond April 22, 2011, will make a...

Former owners of Hampton restaurant nix gambling plea

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The former owner of a Hampton Beach seafood restaurant — since closed — pulled out of a decision to plead guilty to charges that the business had an illegal gambling operation in the fall...

Concussions guidelines bill awaits governor's signature

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The Senate approved and sent to Gov. John Lynch a bill that requires all school boards in the state to develop guidelines to deal with concussions.

Senate, House still have key issues to resolve

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The Senate and House still have a number of key issues and bills to resolve before they adjourn for the summer.

WBIN Media acquires 17 N.E. radio stations

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WBIN Media Co. has agreed to acquire 17 New England radio stations -- including several in New Hampshire -- from Nassau Broadcasting, the company said.

Farmington man indicted on robberies at two homes

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DOVER — A Farmington man was indicted this month for robbing two homes, including the residence of the man who apprehended him in February.

Maine teen arrested, charged as accomplice in burglaries

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Police arrested a Maine teen Wednesday afternoon who allegedly served as an accomplice in a string of residential burglaries.

NH unemployment drops

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The unemployment rate in all New Hampshire counties dropped in April as 1,380 Granite Staters returned to work, according to a state government news release Wednesday.

U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan awaits questioning from the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee in Washington on Wednesday.

Secret Service director tells Senate panel that scandal 'is not a systemic issue'

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Speaking publicly for the first time about a prostitution scandal that has tarnished the reputation of the Secret Service, Director Mark Sullivan told a Senate panel Wednesday that the service does...

Concord attorney James Bassett has been confirmed as an associate justice on the N.H. Supreme Court.

Council confirms Bassett to Supreme Court

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CONCORD - The Executive Council has confirmed Gov. John Lynch's nominee to the state Supreme Court.

Mass. man sentenced in Portsmouth bank robbery

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CONCORD - A Bay State man was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison Wednesday after pleading guilty in U.S. District Court to a 2011 robbery of Citizens Bank in Portsmouth.

KENNETH GILL

Police: Nashua man used metal baton in two separate attacks

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NASHUA - A local man is under arrest, accused of bruising two men with a collapsible metal baton and knocking a woman to the ground.

Senate approves scholarship plan, kills refugee moratorium

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CONCORD - The Senate approved and sent to Gov. John Lynch a bill establishing a scholarship program for low- and middle-income students to attend private or parochial schools.

While workers began cleaning up Wednesday after a two-alarm fire burned a ground-floor apartment the previous night, about 30 families will be without a home until repairs, which could take up to a week, are complete.

Newmarket fire displaces 30 residents

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NEWMARKET - About 30 people are temporarily without a home after a two-alarm fire Tuesday night damaged a 24-unit building at the Great Bay Woods condominium development.

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