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Steve Pearce homered off three different pitchers Thursday night and drove in a career-best six runs as the Boston Red Sox rallied from an early deficit to thump the New York Yankees 15-7 in the opener of a four-game series at Fenway Park in Boston.

The U.S. housing market ' particularly in cutthroat areas like Seattle, Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas ' appears to be headed for the broadest slowdown in years. Buyers are getting squeezed by rising mortgage rates and by prices climbing about twice as fast as incomes, and there's only so far they can stretch.

In a previous column, I noted that large losses on HECM reverse mortgages could be attributed to adverse selection. The program attracts too many borrowers in desperate financial condition and too few borrowers with options.

The stat seemed harmless enough: The Red Sox play better ' a LOT better ' against the weaker teams than against the good ones. The question is, does that really matter?

Presby Steel, the owner of the Isaacson Steel Fabrication Plant at 40 Jericho Road, Berlin, has agreed to lease the fabrication plant to the Mount Washington Cog Railway for use as an additional winter shop for the maintenance and building of its locomotives and passenger coaches.

President Donald Trump's top aides said on Thursday that Russia is behind pervasive attempts to interfere in upcoming U.S. elections, in a rejection of denials of meddling that Russian President Vladimir Putin made directly to Trump.

A handful of New Hampshire lawmakers who complained to the state about people criticizing them have been shot down.

The liberal fury machine has two settings: Off and Kilauea.

A Manchester man pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to robbing a Salem bank in 2016.

Michael Fournier, the new superintendent of schools in Bedford, says that transparency will be a priority for him.

Beginning today, the City that Trees Built and Jericho Mountain State Park are hosting one of the largest gatherings of all-terrain vehicles in New England.

Brookstone Co. Inc. announced Thursday that it filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy and had begun the process to close the company's remaining 101 mall locations.

The Derry Planning Board granted conditional approval Wednesday night to Manchester developer Dick Anagnost to renovate a building at 23 Crystal Ave. and build a new building on the same lot.

The Breakfast Exchange Club of Nashua's current and former members celebrated the service organization's 20th anniversary recently during a dinner at the Nashua Senior Activity Center.

A Weare man will spend 25 years in federal prison after authorities arrested him last year during an investigation into the delivery of 12 pounds of 92-percent pure 'ice' methamphetamine into the state, federal prosecutors said.

Plans for three large projects ' a hospital cancer center, housing for young high tech workers in the Millyard and reuse of the former Lowe's home improvement store ' took a major step forward before the Planning Board Thursday night.

ONE NEED ONLY READ the Union Leader's searing account of the horrible abuse of a young foster child ' and the allegedly slipshod quick-and-dirty process by which the foster home was licensed ' to understand why the New Hampshire Division of Children Youth and Families and the private agency involved in the case tried desperately to...

A Farmington teenager accused of shooting a former U.S. Marine and his own mother last year was held on no bail after pleading not guilty at Strafford County Superior Court Thursday afternoon.

More than a dozen hot air balloons will light up the skies over Pittsfield this weekend as part of the Suncook Valley Rotary Club's 37th annual Hot Air Balloon Rally.

The New Hampshire Golf Association Stroke Play Championship was Pat Pelletier's to lose on Thursday. According to Pelletier, his five-stroke lead heading into 36-hole finale was the largest lead he'd ever taken into the final day of any pro or amateur tournament he's played.