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New Hampshire last week recorded its seventh-straight weekly decline in the number of initial jobless claims.
Thursday, May 28, 2020
EVEN AS GOV. Chris Sununu‘s Democratic challengers hammer him for moving too quickly toward reopening the state, a small group of activists says Sununu is taking it too slow.
DANVERS, Mass. -- McKinnon's Market and Super Butcher Shop has closed after an unspecified number of store employees tested positive for the novel coronavirus. It was unclear if the store would be open Wednesday.
MINNEAPOLIS - Protesters clashed with riot police firing tear gas for a second night in Minneapolis on Wednesday in an outpouring of rage over the death of a black man seen in a widely circulated video gasping for breath as a white officer knelt on his neck.
WASHINGTON/MUMBAI - U.S. troop strength in Afghanistan is down to nearly 8,600, well ahead of a schedule agreed with Taliban militants in late February, in part because of concerns about the spread of the coronavirus, U.S. and NATO officials said.
Sheryl Sandberg's schedule was packed as the Facebook chief operating officer arrived in Portland, Oregon, for a summer forum of state prosecutors who were meeting to talk shop and share ideas with one another.
YouTube's battle against COVID-19 misinformation is causing collateral damage as the world's largest online video service struggles to pick up on nuances of an increasingly complex and political topic.
When Holy Cross moved to distance learning in mid-March because of the coronavirus crisis, HC students and siblings Paul and Mary Anne Wiley returned to their home in Bow, New Hampshire, and had a week off from classes while the college finalized its virtual platform.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fourteen Democratic members of the U.S. House of Representatives wrote to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Thursday to urge it to consider probing the short video app TikTok for "blatant disregard" of a consent decree related to children's privacy.
NEW YORK/BOSTON - Sonic Automotive Inc , which operates 95 U.S. car dealerships, started laying off and furloughing about a third of its workforce as the coronavirus pandemic crushed its sales. Then it changed its executives' pay packages - handing them a multimillion-dollar windfall.
CHICAGO - High borrowing costs will limit participation in a $500 billion U.S. Federal Reserve short-term borrowing program set up to address state and city revenue shortfalls due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus outbreak, analysts said.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - The United States' decision to end sanctions waivers that had allowed some work to proceed at Iranian nuclear sites will only provoke Tehran into developing nuclear weapons, Interfax cited Russian Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov as saying on Thursday.
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Democratic candidate for governor Dan Feltes of Concord has captured one of the prize endorsements of the 2020 primary campaign, from the last Democrat who ran against Gov. Chris Sununu.
CONCORD — Three staff at the state-run psychiatric hospital have tested positive for COVID-19 and are in self-isolation until they recover, a state health official said.
UNITY — A part-time employee working at the Sullivan County Health Care nursing home tested positive for COVID-19, according to Ted Purdy, the facility’s administrator.
MANCHESTER — The city’s school superintendent could lock up the fields at West and Memorial high schools within 10 days, after the athletic director complained that police are unwilling to remove people from them, a claim the chief vigorously disputes.
Manchester will soon begin eliminating bathrooms, meal deliveries and other support services that have caused several homeless camps to swell during the COVID-19 pandemic, city officials said Wednesday.
Nine more New Hampshire residents have died due to COVID-19, state health officials announced on Wednesday, putting the death toll at 223 in New Hampshire.
NASHUA — Nearly two months ago, doctors had exhausted almost every option to treat Joseph Jozitis’ COVID-19. He was in critical condition, in a medically induced coma and had been on a ventilator for three weeks.
Five months after a 5-year-old died on Christmas Eve in Laconia, the Attorney General’s Office has ruled the death a homicide, saying the boy was killed by blunt-force trauma to his head and neck.
CONCORD — An inmate in the New Hampshire prison system has tested positive for COVID-19 — the first across the entire system — but the Department of Corrections did not specify what facility houses him.
Exeter police are asking for the public’s help to locate a 15-year-old girl.
A Newton man accused of brandishing a gun in front of two teenage girls and firing into the ceiling of his home told investigators that it was an accident, police said.
Durham police have reported an increase in the number of University of New Hampshire students living off campus who refuse to follow rules for social distancing and self-quarantining after testing positive for COVID-19.
A bloody trail along several downtown Manchester city streets concluded at a dead end overnight Tuesday, and police say they need the public’s help to determine what happened.
Nashua police responding to calls about people violating the city’s new mask ordinance continue to push for voluntary compliance rather than issue citations.
CONCORD — The current school superintendent in Hampton has been nominated to take over as interim superintendent in Concord.
MANCHESTER -- The parents of a Manchester boy who died after being swept away by a wave during a family vacation in North Carolina two years ago say plans to donate a new playground to the elementary school he would have attended are on hold for a year, due to COVID-19 concerns.
Seacoast Learning Collaborative plans to make the former Sanborn Regional Middle School in Newton its new home under a newly signed long-term lease agreement.
MEREDITH -- A public-private land swap has sparked the first step in the redevelopment of a key intersection in downtown Meredith.In March 2018, Meredith residents voted at Town Meeting to authorize selectmen to sign over a municipal parking lot on Route 3 in exchange for a similar-sized par…
