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To the Editor: This year, a group of demonstrators will again be right outside of the Deerfield Fair on Saturday, Sept. 29 starting at noon to expose cruel pig scrambles. Why fairs insist on dragging on a tradition of cruelty to baby animals in 2018 is perplexing.

A WHOLE STRING of perfect summery September days and we sit outdoors eating our broiled fish and cucumber salad and the last of the sweet corn crop while looking at news of people stranded in flooded towns in North Carolina, unable to evacuate because they are caring for an elderly bedridden relative.

The New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled that public defenders have to follow the same rules for collecting payment from poor people as prosecutors do when they want to collect fines levied by a judge.

State health officials have increased the number of confirmed cases of Legionnaires' disease to 18, following an outbreak in Hampton this summer which left one person dead and 16 hospitalized.

A car struck a male pedestrian who was walking along the side of High Range Road just south of Shasta Drive, according to Battalion Chief Fred Heinrich of the Londonderry Fire Department.

The dozens of Labrador retrievers taken from a Marlborough man charged with animal cruelty earlier this summer have cost the Monadnock Humane Society at least 50,000 so far, and that figure could double before the case ends in court, said Kathy Collingsworth, the executive director for the Monadnock Humane Society.

History came alive for visitors to the Laconia Airport as the Collings Foundation Wings of Freedom Tour displayed some of the most iconic aircraft of World War II.

Leaders of South and North Korea plan to announce steps aimed at rekindling stalled nuclear talks and deepening bilateral ties after they meet for a second day of summit talks on Wednesday in the North's capital Pyongyang.

The University of New Hampshire men's hockey team opens the season under first-year head coach Mike Souza in a little more than three weeks and Patrick Grasso can't wait.

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday the United States is considering a request from Poland for a permanent U.S. military presence in the fellow NATO country, acknowledging that he shares Poland's concerns about possible Russian aggression.

Russian officials Tuesday blamed Israel for the downing of a Russian military aircraft near Syria's Mediterranean coast that killed 15 people, even though the plane was shot down by Syrian air defenses.

A lawsuit brought by the state against pharmaceutical giant Purdue Pharma has received the green light to head to trial after a Merrimack County judge denied a request to dismiss the case.

Officials say no one was injured but a pet cat was killed and a home seriously damaged in a fire Tuesday afternoon on Pine Hill Road in Wolfeboro.

Police in Dover are warning people about the number of bears in the city. On Tuesday, officials said bears have been seen in the Melody Terrace and Stocklan Circle neighborhoods recently.

Route 125 in Barrington was shut down Tuesday afternoon after a motorcycle burst into flames after colliding with a pickup truck travelling in the opposite direction.

The Lakes Region man charged with negligent homicide in connection with last month's fatal car crash on Lakeshore Road, flunked a field sobriety test at the scene, according to a police affidavit seeking an arrest warrant.

A local police officer remains out of work after accidentally shooting himself in the leg while training at a firing range last week.

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.