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SOME Granite Staters find New Hampshire's great motto -- "Live free or die" -- embarrasing. Frankly, we find them embarrassing. The motto is far from an anachronism or a mindless war cry, as they suggest. It is a timeless assertion of the primacy of the individual. Just ask college students in Iran.
OPRAH WINFREY helped Barack Obama draw 8,500 people to the Verizon Wireless Arena in downtown Manchester on a snowy Sunday night. If that weren't impressive enough, Obama then gave the crowd as entertaining a speech as we've seen in New Hampshire in the past year. It was better than some concerts we've seen at the arena, and the audience didn't even have to pay for it.
Manchester - Facing skyrocketing energy costs, U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter joined state and local officials yesterday in calling for more federal funding to help low-income residents heat their homes this winter.
It wasn't just another game. The host Crimson Tide and Raiders were part of something special -- the first NHIAA sanctioned girls' varsity hockey game.
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SALEM - Updated, 12:32 p.m. Police are searching for a large truck, possibly a tractor-trailer, that drove off after hitting a local woman this morning as she was walking near the intersection of Route 28 (North Broadway) and Route 97 (Main Street).
Milford - Updated, 10:41 a.m. A Georgetown Drive man was charged with arson last night after police pulled him out of his burning garage.
KEENE - Updated, 7:16 a.m. Police are searching for the man shown at left who robbed TD Banknorth on Court Street yesterday afternoon.
CONCORD - A disciplinary committee voted Monday to recommend suspension for Superior Court Judge Patricia Coffey, who helped shield her lawyer-husband's assets as he was being disbarred.
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CLAREMONT - Ten employees of Green Mountain Metals were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning yesterday. At least two were airlifted to out-of-state hospitals.
Manchester - Foreclosures on home loans, led by troubled subprime mortgages, will dog the state for another 24 to 30 months, according to a new report by the New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority.
Manchester - If the city builds its first elementary school in 20 years, where would it be located?
HINSDALE - Updated, 6:32 a.m. A two-alarm fire in a Main Street building is under control after firefighters battled the blaze for about two hours this morning, according to fire officials.
A former influential New Hampshire House member was sentenced yesterday to 2 1/2 years in federal prison for tax evasion.
BARTLETT - Updated, 12:35 p.m. The Pennsylvania-based amusement company that purchased Story Land in Glen earlier this year has announced today that it will be acquired by an international amusement company that operates parks in the U.S. and Europe.
LONDONDERRY - A Franklin woman has been charged with child endangerment after allegedly abandoning her daughter in the cold, leaving the young girl with only two trash bags of clothes and toys.
Updated, 4:33 p.m. U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter made her endorsement of Barack Obama official this afternoon.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - As governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee had a hand in twice as many pardons and commutations as his three predecessors combined.
Fred Thompson has no plans to campaign in New Hampshire before the end of the year.
BRENTWOOD - Three men have been indicted for the murder of Derry carpenter Jason Violette this past August.
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EXETER - Sparks are expected to fly tomorrow night when the Zoning Board of Adjustment holds a public hearing on plans to build a new Gothic stone church and complex at historic Fort Rock Farm.
Concord - The state Republican Party has joined a lawsuit that challenged a new state law allowing political parties to sell voter information databases to political campaigns.
CONCORD - Gov. John Lynch will nominate Nicholas Toumpas today to head the state's largest agency as the next Commissioner of Health and Human Services.
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HILLSBOROUGH - A Dover developer recently presented plans for 220,000 square feet of retail space and two 7,500-square-foot restaurants on about 30 acres in downtown Hillsborough.
Sure, the press is making a big fuss over Barack Obama’s poll numbers, momentum and campaign weekend with Oprah. But you’ll know the press is really taking Obama seriously when it starts speculating on his vice president.
"GIVEN THE lack of time available," Sen. Mitch McConnell said last week, "the best way to deal with the troop funding issue would be in the context of some kind of settlement on an overall omnibus appropriation bill." Instead of following the President's hardline on spending, the Republican leader of the Senate was opting for a compromise bill that George W. Bush might be forced to sign because it contains money for Iraq.
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For years, the trend has been for people to buy large cookie-cutter houses that they can barely afford, and the result has been an abundance of big, cold, empty boxes, not home sweet homes.
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