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The Department of Justice has for the first time in its history appointed a director of communications to handle public information from the Attorney General's Office.

Some pretty important people ' the governor, a former Supreme Court justice and a hospital CEO, to name a few ' were at the State House for Monday's official unveiling of a poster campaign to raise awareness of mental health in the schools.

The owner of Donahue's Fish Market plans to reopen after a devastating weekend fire, but it likely won't happen for several months.

Planet Fitness is moving into the old Bob's Discount Furniture store after Bob's moves to a larger space that was formerly a Shaw's Supermarket.

President Donald Trump said on Monday he will impose 10 percent U.S. tariffs on about 200 billion worth of Chinese imports, but he spared smart watches from Apple and Fitbit Inc. and other consumer products such as bicycle helmets and baby car seats.

Ten-year-old Akshay Maheshwari said he likes to help people and solve problems.

In these steamy days of late summer, when large men in pads batter one another on the playing field, some try to speed their recovery on the sidelines by breathing pure oxygen.

On a recent morning, six visually impaired people gathered in a building in Philadelphia's Center City neighborhood, huddled over their iPhones, waiting for Andrew Godwin's intermediate technology class to begin. The day's lesson? Creating and finding contacts in your cellphone.

It has been a little more than five years since Sarah Murnaghan left Children's Hospital of Philadelphia with a new set of lungs, harvested from an adult donor and trimmed down to fit a 10-year-old with cystic fibrosis.

Let's look at how last week's primary proved that I was right all along.

To the Editor: I oppose the upcoming vote to rezone property located at South Mammoth Road. This has been an ongoing issue for the past two years. The former mayor and alderman have not listened to the concerns of the people who live here.

On Gardening: Mountain Mints are champions for landscape, herb garden or backyard habitat

IN NOVEMBER, New Hampshire voters have distinctly different candidates to choose from in the race for governor. Anyone who buys the theory that the Democratic and Republican parties are not that different needs to read up on former state Sen. Molly Kelly and incumbent Gov. Chris Sununu.

To the Editor: I made the mistake recently of logging onto social media to learn more about the candidates running for office in New Hampshire this fall. While there was some occasionally useful information about the candidates, the negativity and vitriol were overwhelming.

To the Editor: I wish to thank the voters in Sandwich, Moultonborough, and Tuftonboro for allowing me to move on from the primary to the general election.

The stage is set for the first meeting of top-five teams in the New Hampshire Union Leader High School Football Power Poll.

Molly Kelly is wrong about New Hampshire business taxes.

'HOW HARD CAN that be? Saying that Nazis are bad,' former President Barack Obama asked a crowd in Illinois. Well, probably no harder than saying the words 'radical Islam,' I imagine.

A budget surplus is a good problem to have, and we give Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess almost full credit for handling it well.

RYE - A dead minke whale became a sad spectacle after it washed up on Jenness Beach Monday morning and later fell off the side of a Dumpster and flopped onto the parking lot as crews attempted to move the animal to a facility where a necropsy can be done to determine cause of death.