Current law gives border patrol a 100-mile-wide area extending from any international border where the patrol can stop people without reasonable suspicion. The bill would change that number from 100 miles to 25 miles.
NEW YORK — Fed up with being overlooked as a female scientist despite wading through mud carting heavy equipment and working twice as hard as her male colleagues, Dr. Ellen Currano is on a drive for change — by donning a beard.
If it’s better to light one candle than to curse the darkness, just imagine what 10,000 candles could do.
The black-velvet, V-neck drape that the young women were required to wear just didn’t feel like her.
TEDxPortsmouth is more than a break from the books for Denise Wheeler, a teaching librarian in the Rye school system.
The owner of a Boston-based construction firm has notified all subcontractors working on the Orpheum Apartments site in the city's downtown that catcalling at women must stop.
HONG KONG — China said on Wednesday Hong Kong’s protest movement had reached “near terrorism” and more street clashes followed ugly scenes the previous day when protesters set upon men they suspected of being government sympathizers.
County commissioners took the unusual step of issuing a statement after suspended employee Jennifer Adams filed suit against the county and County Attorney Robin Davis last week.
The New Hampshire pilgrimage kicks off at 9 a.m. on Aug. 21 at South Church in Concord.
A federal judge on Friday awarded more than $700,000 to a former American University student government president who accused the founder of a well-known neo-Nazi website of directing his followers to threaten her with racist online messages.
CONCORD — State Rep. Katherine Rogers said she might have been the only person who thought Gov. Chris Sununu would not veto a trio of gun-control bills passed along party lines in the state Legislature.
Hiding under a desk might be a natural response to an active shooter in your building, but it might actually increase your chances of being shot.
LOS ANGELES — Universal Pictures on Saturday canceled the release of “The Hunt,” a satirical thriller about a group of Americans who are captured to be hunted and killed for sport, following apparent criticism by President Donald Trump and a recent series of mass shootings.
OSSIPEE — Saying she never admitted guilt or liability, a Jackson innkeeper who recently entered into a settlement with the state over allegations of violating the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act wants to back out of the pact because she says the state’s press release about it was misleading.
CONCORD — No racial taunts or slurs immediately preceded the incident that took place in Claremont two summers ago when an 8-year-old biracial boy suffered injuries to his neck when he was pushed from behind off a picnic table with a rope looped around his neck, state officials said Wednesday.
A monthslong inquiry has concluded that a vendor was right to fire lunch lady Bonnie Kimball for giving students free food and drinks for months.
"The New Hampshire Republican Party is actually fundraising off the mass shootings that killed 31 people this weekend," Gillibrand tweeted.
CONCORD -- Nine former Dartmouth psychology students have settled a lawsuit with the college. The suit alleged three professors harassed and assaulted students, and the college did little to intervene. The $14 million settlement was announced Tuesday.
BOSTON — A federal judge in Boston has granted class-action status to immigrants who appear in a federal immigration court in Boston — including immigrants from New Hampshire — in a lawsuit that challenges procedures for releasing ICE detainees from custody before trial, according to the Ame…
A cluster of recent mass shootings that killed 36 people in California, Texas and Ohio has sparked renewed calls for Congress to pass legislation to prevent gun violence.
PORTSMOUTH — Hundreds of people turned out Monday night to celebrate the recovery community and raise money to help people stay sober.
Fatal overdoses in Manchester are up 13% compared to a year ago. Nashua opioid overdose deaths are down 24% over the last year.
For most of us — not just in America, but worldwide — the accepted norm for an elevator ride is this: Get in and position yourself as far from others as possible, face forward, be still, stand up straight and stare silently at the door, or your cellphone, until you get to your floor.
The Union Leader emailed requests for interviews to the four congressional delegates, mentioning specific public housing issues. None agreed to interviews, but all issued brief statements.
CONCORD — Retired New Hampshire Superior Court judge Robert Morrill is mediating a settlement between Dartmouth College and nine women suing the Ivy League school for sexual harassment and misconduct at the hands of three former psychology professors.
CONCORD — Public housing projects in Concord and Manchester were scenes of separate homicides last week, and residents at one Concord apartment complex said they don’t feel safe.
Light pours through large windows and glass ceilings of the Cherokee Indian Hospital onto a fireplace, a waterfall and murals.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his attacks on a prominent black lawmaker from Baltimore and slammed black civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton, further fueling racial tensions as he linked his attacks to his 2020 reelection bid.
A recent Washington Post analysis of a federal Drug Enforcement Administration database shows nearly 290 million prescription pain pills were supplied to New Hampshire from 2006 to 2012.
PORTSMOUTH — Bob Slavin says he has to ration the insulin he needs to control his Type 2 diabetes.
In its first six months of operation, more than 3,200 people have sought help from The Doorway, the state’s new “hub-and-spoke” treatment and recovery program for those struggling with addiction.
EXETER — Police Chief Stephan Poulin is threatening to prosecute anyone engaging in hate crimes after some students at elite Phillips Exeter Academy reported racially charged comments being hurled at them — and even cigarettes.
CONCORD — A Jackson innkeeper who has been charged under the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act is being fined $10,000 for an incident involving a couple she thought to be Muslim.
This week, reporters peppered homicide prosecutor Benjamin Agati about details of the murder of Pariseau high-rise resident Jennifer Burpee on Tuesday night.
Concord Coach Lines — the state’s largest passenger bus company — said it will not block Customs and Border Patrol agents from accessing its buses, despite being urged to do so by the American Civil Liberties Union.
A New Hampshire victim advocacy group is claiming partial victory in a social media campaign to get ABC’s Good Morning America to back down from an interview with Owen Labrie.
MANCHESTER — The popularity of recovery programs in Manchester may play a factor in a troubling increase in overdose deaths in the city, according to an official on the front lines of the drug crisis.
More people are using highways to harm themselves, including the 40-year-old man who jumped to his death off the South Willow Street bridge over Interstate 293 on Monday, according to a New Hampshire State Police official.
Community leaders in Hudson are working to create a new wrap-around program to help kids and relatives impacted by the opioid epidemic, with hopes to launch before the next school year.
SOMERSWORTH — Sixteen people turned out for a roundtable discussion at Goodwin Community Health in Somersworth on Monday morning.
The center provides programming and support for people who struggle with alcohol and/or drug abuse.
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