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Six lecturers who received notice that their contract would not be renewed for this academic year at the University of New Hampshire have filed an age discrimination complaint with the state's Commission for Human Rights.

Crews from multiple communities worked for hours to get an interior fire under control at the Calpine Granite Ridge power plant at 21 Wentworth Ave., according to Londonderry Fire Battalion Chief Mike McQuillen.

Merrimack Stone Industries is expanding its local facility after receiving the green light from planning officials.

A Nashua man accused of exposing a 1-year-old child to cocaine, which caused the child to overdose, may face trial later this year if a plea deal is not reached.

Belmont resident Joseph C. Callahan, 35, has pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine with the intent to distribute, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

A 44-year-old man has been charged with three felonies after police say he fired at a youth who fled after mistakenly entering his home early on the morning of Aug. 18.

A Haverhill, Mass. man pleaded guilty to conspiracy to sell misbranded prescription animal drugs from a business in Newton, N.H., federal prosecutors announced Thursday.

A federal judge has sentenced Manchester's William Looney, 55, to 10 years in federal prison for fentanyl trafficking, prosecutors announced Thursday.

The new chief of the Salem Fire Department, wrapping up his first week in the new post, said he has plans to expand wellness programs for his firefighters and build more facilities in the coming years.

An observant Goffstown police officer stopped a burglary in progress at a local self-storage business early Thursday morning, police said.

The teams in last season's Division I state championship game will start this season on top of the 2018 Union Leader High School Football Power Poll. It's the runner-up, though, that starts No. 1.

To the Editor: After I heard Eddie Edwards first speak about his history in the U.S. Navy and his law enforcement career, he went on to explain how he would represent New Hampshire.

An advocate for immigrant families and a University of New Hampshire student activist testified that the state's new election law would suppress turnout among students, the homeless and newly minted American citizens as the hearing on Senate Bill 3 entered its fourth day in Hillsborough County Superior Court.

All mail to New Hampshire prisons will be held for a short period of time, after staff and inmates in several out-of-state prisons became sick after coming in contact with unknown substances, New Hampshire corrections officials announced.

Three young men from Florida face theft and fraud charges after they allegedly loaded up the credit cards they found in a backpack of someone who mistakenly left it on a Boston Express bus, said Manchester police.

HAMPTON - The state's epidemiologist said Thursday that a person has died from complications officials believe were connected to the Legionnaires' disease outbreak in Hampton.

Erin VanDalinda was so concerned about her safety living next to Catrina Costello that she went to court last year to get a protective order.

A Seabrook woman is charged with second-degree murder after she allegedly aimed her truck at a neighbor and then accelerated as she plowed into him and his wife while they were walking their dog early Wednesday evening.

DOVER - Juniors and seniors described Dover's new 87.4 million high school as 'breathtaking' when they entered the building Wednesday.

The search for a missing North Woodstock woman entered its second day Wednesday with a large contingent from New Hampshire State Police and other agencies staging at the Mill Brook Christian Fellowship church ' next door to a home at 225 Main St. surrounded by crime-scene tape.