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A dog belonging to the victim of a fatal car crash, initially reported as missing by police and a local dog recovery group, has been found dead, killed in the same crash that took the life of her owner Tuesday in Merrimack.

Our Lady of the Cedars Melkite Catholic Church will receive a historic visit today from its Patriarch.

A former Northwood woman pleaded guilty in federal court this week to participating in a methamphetamine trafficking conspiracy, U.S. Attorney Scott W. Murray announced Wednesday.

If a male guidance counselor in his 30s had sexually assaulted a 14-year-old student would his former colleagues beg the court to show leniency?

The New Hampshire Department of Transportation DOT will host a public informational meeting on Wednesday, July 25, about plans to construct a new highway exit between Exit 4 and Exit 5 on Interstate 93, according to a release.

While many risky behaviors considered in a recent survey showed positive improvements for Bedford youth, the data does indicate that bullying is on the rise, as well as marijuana use, binge drinking, rape, self injury and suicide.

The Board of Aldermen is reviewing two separate union contracts that would provide salary increases for city police and principals.

Laconia City Councilor Bob Hamel is facing criticism for his remarks at a Monday night meeting during a prickly exchange with the head of the union that represents city firefighters.

A violent downburst left a path of destruction along parts of Northwood Lake early Tuesday evening.

It's 'Curtains' for North Country Community Theatre, which stages a musical send-up of a backstage murder mystery this and next weekend at Lebanon Opera House, 51 N. Park St.

This happy-go-lucky view of small-town vice and statewide political 'side-stepping' centers on the Chicken Ranch, a long-running brothel whose time is at an end.

Joe Jackson, the singer and songwriter whose signature tunes include 'Is She Really Going Out with Him' and 'Steppin' Out,' will return to The Music Hall, 28 Chestnut St., Portsmouth, for an 8 p.m. show Thursday.

A reception for New Hampshire Institute of Arts' Master of Arts in Arts Education student thesis exhibition runs from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday in the Roger Williams Gallery, 77 Amherst St, Manchester.

A lesson in community building has led to a whole school of fish.

Work by artists Emilie Clark and Margery Mueller will be unveiled at two receptions, one at the Patricia Ladd Carega Gallery, 69 Maple St., Center Sandwich, from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday and the other at The Red Dot Gallery, 74 Drew Hill Road, Alton, on Sunday, also from 5 to 7 p.m.

In a double-bill show as part of their Summer of Living Dangerously tour, Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers take over at the Bank of New Hampshire Pavilion in Gilford at 7:30 p.m. Friday.

Catapulted into the national spotlight with a Season 4 win on NBC's 'The Sing-Off' in 2013, the vocal group Home Free returns to the Granite State this month as part of its Timeless World Tour.

The Budweiser Brewery Experience isn't putting the brakes on its trademark brew tours and service, but it's focus will be on a bit of Mustang Mania on Sunday.

Twenty years before Samuel F.B. Morse changed the world with his electric telegraph, he was an itinerant painter in Portsmouth.

North Dakota Most residents had to warm up to depiction of city

Ask folks in Fargo what they first thought about the 1996 movie that made their city famous, and some will tell you they were not fans.

Some residents initially didn't appreciate the Coen brothers' dark humor or were offended by the extreme violence and depiction of Scandinavian culture. Not to mention those heavy accents on "you betcha" and "ya sure."

But the fame and cash it brought Fargo eventually brought the city around. Now, 16 years later, Fargo awaits the debut of a new cable television show by the same name, and many residents here are less apprehensive about how their hometown will be portrayed this time around. Just ask Kristin Rudrud.

"Anything the Coen brothers are going to be involved in is going to be brilliant," said Rudrud, 57, who played a supporting role in the movie. "And they love Fargo. They love this area. So it will be done in a very fun and loving way."