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Check on elderly during summer heat
To the Editor: Heat exhaustion can sneak up on you, causing increased body temperature, rapid pulse, headache and fatigue. If you don't get cool, you'll dehydrate, possibly suffer a stroke, or worse, die.
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Advice to would-be authors
To the Editor: I read with interest Roberta Baker's Silver Linings column about first-time authors and self-publishing.
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NH Senior Notes: AARP offers a tasting tour at 6 NH venues
AARP New Hampshire is offering a 'Taste Tour' of beer, wine, cider and spirits that will get underway next week.
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Baxter joins New Hampshire Union Leader as community relations, events manager
Stephanie Baxter has joined the New Hampshire Union Leader as community relations and events manager.
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Know the Law: Legal steps to take after winning the lottery
Q: My husband and I are New Hampshire residents, and we just learned we have the winning Powerball lottery ticket of a recent 64 million drawing. Are there steps we can take to protect this windfall?
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Washington's words
To the Editor: I recently had the pleasure of visiting the 1763 Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., the oldest temple building in America.
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Parents seek restraining order against former Laconia teacher
A former Laconia Middle School teacher is under court order to have no contact with a girl who was in his eighth grade class when he worked at the Barnstead Elementary School.
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Storm threat recedes for next few days
The Granite State is getting a few days to dry out and clean up following a succession of heavy thunderstorms that swept across the state.
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Trump threatens U.S. government shutdown over border wall
President Donald Trump said on Sunday he would allow the federal government to shut down if Democrats do not fund his border wall and back immigration law changes, betting that maintaining a hard line will work in Republicans' favor in November congressional elections.
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'Electronic skin' developed at Johns Hopkins allows amputees to feel sensations in prosthetic hands
Thanks to a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University, Gyorgy Levay has learned what they might feel like if prosthetic replacements were part of him. Levay was the principal volunteer subject in a two-year study at the university that endowed an artificial limb with the capacity to feel pressure and pain.
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Great-grandmother killed in Calif. fire tried to save kids
A 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren died as she tried in vain to save them from a wildfire that raged through an area of northern California and engulfed their home, officials and family members said.
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N.Y. Times publisher urges Trump to stop provocative rhetoric against the media
In what has become a hallmark of Donald Trump's presidency, two very different versions emerged Sunday of a face-to-face discussion in a private meeting, held July 20 between Trump and A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times.
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Stores stock up early on seasonal workers
While the nation's big retailers battle for consumer dollars, they're now also waging a fight for seasonal workers.
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NH Business Newsmakers: Owen joins Granite United Way
Molly Lunn Owen joined Granite United Way as director of development.
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Jack Falvey's Investor Education Briefs: Business incubators are for businesses with breathing problems
Healthy businesses should be able to grow on their own. Almost all have.
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Roger Brown's The State of Sports: Legion baseball fighting extinction
There are those who feel that American Legion Baseball in New Hampshire is facing an adapt-or-die situation, at least at the senior level.
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Kyle Busch charges from the back, wins Pocono
Holding off a determined charge from Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Daniel Suarez in two late restarts'the first after a brutal wreck that sidelined Bubba Wallace ' Kyle Busch powered his No. 18 Toyota to his sixth Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season, tying fourth-place finisher Kevin Harvick for the series lead.
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Thomas rides into Paris as Tour de France champ
Geraint Thomas capped a historic victory in the 2018 Tour de France by riding victoriously into Paris at the end of Sunday's 21st stage.
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Eovaldi hurls 7 shutout innings in Boston debut as Sox win
Nathan Eovaldi accomplished what's only been done eight times by a Red Sox starter this season, throwing seven innings of shutout ball as he carved up the Minnesota Twins in a 3-0 win at Fenway Park.
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Goffstown strikes early for Little League title
Goffstown scored 10 runs on eight hits over the first three innings en route to a 14-4 mercy-rule victory over Concord in Game 3 of the Little League state championship series.
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