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MANCHESTER - October home sales were up 8 percent, compared with sales in the same month last year. SAN DIEGO - The housing market welcomed a bigger share of first-time buyers and single women this past year, a new homebuyer survey shows. More headlines >>> |
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New Hampshire's David Smith Leaps for a ball off of the bat of Portland's Iggy Suarez in Manchester last night. The ball just cleared the wall for a home run. (DAVID LANE)
MANCHESTER - The box score will show lefthander Daryl Harang had a blown save last night. It will also show he ended up with a much-deserved win.
BOSTON - IT WAS ONLY a matter of time. For Jacoby Ellsbury, a slump was inevitable.
DURHAM - Football players report to camp in less than two weeks. Soccer and cross country teams swing into full gear late next month. And men's and women's hockey, believe it or not, won't be far behind.
CANDIA - A Manchester man is being held on $250,000 bail after being arraigned yesterday on charges stemming from his alleged robbery of a Raymond bank on Friday.
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MERRIMACK - A father whose child was injured in a July 4 fireworks accident has now been ordered to have no unsupervised contact with a son he left unattended in a running car.
MANCHESTER - A local man was arrested Sunday night after police said he tried to rob three convenience stores in 20 minutes.
MANCHESTER - Friends and colleagues yesterday remembered former city teacher and school principal Joseph A. Forseze as unfailingly upbeat, and never happier than when he was surrounded by children.
MANCHESTER - Updated, 10:45 a.m. Police are searching this morning for a man who robbed TD BankNorth at 293 South Main Street. At 8:32 a.m., the man entered the bank and then passed a note to a teller. The note demanded cash and made reference to a weapon, although none was displayed.
Multiple gunshot wounds killed a Charlestown man Saturday during an altercation with police and a Keene-based state trooper who was shot remains hospitalized in stable condition. Court records reveal both the father and son involved in the case have long histories with the law.
►Before fatal confrontation, Anthony Jarvis worried about son (61)
►Trooper shot in Charlestown (60)
EPSOM - Hammered by the brunt of last Thursday's deadly tornado, the town's emergency services are scrambling to pay for overtime, fuel and damaged equipment. "There's no money," said Rick Bilodeau, the town's emergency management coordinator.
►Governor asks for disaster declaration
►Cleanup continues in Barnstead, Deerfield
►Photo gallery: Pictures of last week's tornado
►Map: Tracking tornado's path of destruction
MANCHESTER - Updated, 4:37 p.m. A New Hampshire native who was at the center of the infamous "Black Hawk Down" incident in Somalia 15 years ago jumped into the presidential debate yesterday on the side of Republican John McCain.
LACONIA - Updated, 7:03 a.m. A local man is hospitalized with life-threatening injuries after he was stabbed during an argument last night, police said.
MANCHESTER - Pandemonium broke out in a courtroom yesterday morning after a city teen accused in a savage beating blew kisses at the victim's relatives, prompting one of them to stand and begin shouting at the defendant.
MOUNT WASHINGTON - SUMMER IS the most popular season for hikers to hit the trails in New Hampshire, but atop Mount Washington, there is growing concern about the number of ill-prepared hikers who have needed emergency care at the summit.
Sen. John Sununu's campaign manager says Team Sununu will donate to charity $10,000 in campaign contributions it received during the current 2008 election cycle from indicted Sen. Ted Stevens' political action committee.
New Hampshire veterans would no longer have to travel out of state for medical care under a bill to be introduced today by U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter.
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MANCHESTER - New Hampshire is one of a dozen states considered critical to upholding a filibuster in the U.S. Senate against the union-backed Employer Free Choice Act, a national official with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce said yesterday.
Around Manchester this summer, you might encounter some earnest-looking citizens with clipboards asking if you'd like to lower taxes and control city spending. It's OK, they won't bite.
Barack Obama is a magnetic candidate supported by a disciplined, well-organized campaign. John McCain seems wooden, with a campaign that appears to be in shambles.
►Columnist Novak announces brain tumor
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It's parade day practically every day as a half dozen or so mini horses pass through town pulling their drivers on small carts around the center of the Barnstead Parade section of town.
NEWS IN PRINT
►Winnisquam boat launch to be dedicated
►Elementis agrees to final Merrimack park cleanup
SPORTS IN PRINT
►Patriots' Gaffney hopes for bigger role
►Cyr, Steckowych share Stroke Play lead
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