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The New Hampshire Union Leader spelled out the abuse and the rushed licensing of the foster parents in a lengthy article last month. The article was based mostly on records that had been mistakenly placed in a court file. The newspaper was in court Thursday to urge a judge to unseal the case. Eleven lawyers were in Superior Court Judge Gillian...

A Portsmouth man was convicted Thursday of beating a former Planet Fitness employee to retaliate for the alleged theft of 30,000 by her boyfriend.

At least a half-dozen people who participated in a forum on diversifying New Hampshire's workforce have been the target of threatening phone calls and emails in the week since the event, and some of them have referred the messages to the Attorney General's office.

New Hampshire Fish and Game responded to a pair of hikers in distress Thursday, one on Mt. Chocorua, the other in Waterville Valley.

The New Hampshire Fisher Cats jumped out to an early 5-0 lead, but the Richmond Flying Squirrels came roaring back to win a wild game, 20-8, on Thursday night at Northeast Delta Dental Stadium.

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.