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Staff reportCONCORD - New Hampshire's preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for August 2018 was 2.7 percent, unchanged from July and August 2017, New Hampshire Employment Security reported Tuesday. It marked the sixth consecutive month the...

Representatives of a London-based independent film and TV production company will be here next week to talk to folks and scout potential locations for a six- to eight-part miniseries based on the 2015 book, 'In the Evil Day: Violence Comes to One Small Town.'

A Manchester policewoman could have died during a melee when a bar patron held her to the ground and 'jackhammer punched' the side of her head, according to a Hillsborough county prosecutor who obtained an attempted murder charge against the patron.

Days after his request for a rehearing was denied, a local parent says he will take his battle over the school district's new homework protocol to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.

The dead minke whale that didn't quite fit in a small dumpster spent Monday night sitting in the parking lot at Jenness State Beach while waiting for a larger one to arrive Tuesday morning.

A Weare man found dead over the weekend in Merrimack was subpoenaed earlier this month by the state's Division of Charitable Trusts in the Attorney General's office, seeking financial records for the Manchester-based nonprofit The CareGivers, Inc.

LONDONDERRY - Pfc. Timothy Meuse, 20, of Londonderry died Sunday as a result of a motorcycle accident at Fort Riley, Kansas.

Fifteen people from four Tinkham Avenue businesses were evacuated as heavy rain left over from Florence caused flooding in southern New Hampshire.

Paolo Tedesco's free-kick goal proved to be the difference in the Manchester Central boys' soccer team's 1-0 victory at Hanover on Monday.

A city man is facing armed robbery charges, after police say he robbed a Domino's restaurant at needlepoint Monday night.

U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan on Monday called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to delay a vote on Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

One person was killed in a two-vehicle crash on Route 106 late Monday afternoon, police said.

A Chicago woman is expected to plead guilty next month to lying before a grand jury about her contacts with David O. Pook, the disgraced former St. Paul's School teacher who pleaded guilty to similar charges a month ago, state prosecutors announced.

Elizabeth A. Bielecki, the Director of Motor Vehicles, has released the following list of Driving While Intoxicated revocations. Please note the actual date of revocation may have preceded this announcement.

U.S. Sen. Maggie Hassan held a roundtable discussion Monday with New Hampshire residents who took over raising their grandchildren as the children's parents battled addiction.

Officials in Maine say justified deadly force was used to shoot and kill a Rochester Boy Scouts leader who had traveled to Maine last September for sex.

Competency issues continue to stall a murder case involving a Nashua man accused of killing a resident in his apartment building in 2017.

Officials are keeping mum on the murder of reputed white supremacist Jesse Jarvis, who was shot to death outside a Washington Street restaurant in May.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday the United States would cap the number of refugees allowed into the country at 30,000 for fiscal year 2019, a sharp drop from a limit of 45,000 it set for 2018.

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and the woman who accused him of a 1982 sexual assault will be called to testify in the Senate next Monday, the chamber's Judiciary Committee chairman said, pushing back a key vote in the judge's confirmation process.