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Lawyer blasts city for 'no position' in cop's $2.7M inheritance from elderly woman with dementia

PORTSMOUTH - Attorney Paul McEachern said he's concerned 'as a citizen and a lawyer' that the city is taking no position in a legal dispute over a $2.7 million estate that was largely left to police Sgt. Aaron Goodwin.

Lowell police sgt. files suit against fellow officer to bar his promotion for living in NH

LOWELL -- A police sergeant has obtained a temporary restraining order preventing the city from promoting to lieutenant a sergeant who lives in New Hampshire.

Seabrook officers fired for brutality seeking reinstatement

SEABROOK — Two Seabrook police officers fired Wednesday and a lieutenant who was demoted following a probe into a four-year-old excessive force incident caught on video are contesting the town’s disciplinary action.

Latest fundraising report finds Shaheen leading Brown in cash from special interests

The number of people and political action committees who gave to U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen from April to July vastly outnumbered those that gave to her top Republican …

Cheshire County Attorney's Office suspends probe of 2013 fatal crash in Jaffrey

JAFFREY — No one is being held responsible — at least for now — for an April 2013 crash that left a young man dead and the car he was in unrecognizable in a wooded area off Route 202.

Montreal Gazette: Meriam Ibrahim and family to return to NH

'With my family, I will start a new life. We are going to move to New Hampshire, where my brother-in-law Gabriel lives.'

Hinsdale police chief seeks to calm concerns about alleged peeping Tom

HINSDALE — The local police department will continue to investigate reports of a peeping Tom in the community, but officers don't yet have enough information to conclude there is one, according to Police Chief Todd A. Faulkner.

Portsmouth blame game over $450K public housing window snafu

PORTSMOUTH — People involved in the historic Connors Cottage senior housing project disagree on who is to blame for the failure of windows installed there.

Pizzeria owner blasts ‘absent’ Somersworth councilors after attack on deliveryman

SOMERSWORTH — The owner of Somersworth House of Pizza said city councilors and Mayor Dana Hilliard have been 'absent' in recent weeks following the brutal July 2 assault on a pizza delivery driver.

Merrimack firm expected to benefit from Apple's iWatch

Back in March, Appleinsider reported that Apple is wanting to expand the production of the Arizona-based sapphire plant to 1,700 heaters to make sapphire boules in mass.

Belmont officials won't abide a gray fire vehicle, even a new one

BELMONT — Selectmen will spend about $3,000 painting and lettering the new fire chief vehicle after they realized he bought a gray one instead of red or white one.

Members of Congress concerned propane rail shipments threaten Great Bay

Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte along with Congresswoman Carol-Shea Porter want to take a closer look at the potential environmental impacts.

FairPoint counting on big concession in union talks

Despite cutting a fifth of its workforce since emerging from bankruptcy in 2011, FairPoint Communications is still counting on reducing labor costs through major benefits and wage concessions in labor negotiations with its unions in order to become financially stable.

Asbestos shuts down Sigma Nu fraternity house at UNH

DURHAM — Members of UNH’s chapter of the Sigma Nu fraternity are left without a home now that asbestos has been found in their 10 Madbury Road building.

Dartmouth scientists test a nanoparticle 'alarm clock' to awaken immune systems put to sleep by cancer

One pioneering approach, discussed in a review article published this week in WIREs Nanomedicine and Nanobiotechnology, uses nanoparticles to jumpstart the body’s ability to fight tumors.

Afghan interpreter starts new life in NH

'Everything is beautiful,' said the 27-year-old Afghan interpreter, beaming a wide smile as he spoke about the start of his new life in America with help from Stratham resident Sean Norton, who serves in the Navy Reserve as an engineering aide in the Seabees.

Franklin landlords admits to arson

FRANKLIN — The owner of an apartment building at 4 Pleasant Street has admitted he set the October 5, 2012 fire and has been sentenced to a year in jail.

NHPR: A Peterborough Tale Of Friendship, Poetry & The Dump

Here's a classic New Hampshire tale revolving around neighbors in a small town, poetry, and the town dump's swap shop.

NH health facilities face start of state drug-testing mandate

The New Hampshire Legislature has taken steps to protect patients of health care facilities and providers from risks caused by drug-diverting a

Police: Acworth woman charged with using forged prescriptions

Kathleen Whitcomb, 35, of Acworth, N.H., pleaded not guilty to prescription-fraud charges this week in Windham Superior Court Criminal Division.