When the union representing black police officers accused the Miami Police Department of harboring racism and enabling discrimination, they pointed to a captain’s job application as evidence.
MANCHESTER — New Hampshire marked its 20th official Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, with audiences hearing from the woman who signed the bill into law.
LANDQUART, Switzerland — Climate activists set off on a three-day hike from Landquart in eastern Switzerland to the ski resort of Davos on Sunday to draw attention to global warming at the World Economic Forum this week.
ATLANTA — The center that honors slain U.S. civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. will devote the holiday celebrating his legacy on Monday to voter education and registration, his youngest daughter said in a recent interview.
RICHMOND, Va. — The convoys and militias are coming, if social media posts are to be believed, headed to Virginia’s capital on Monday to take a stand for gun rights — or, in the words of some, to fan the flames of a civil war.
PHILADELPHIA — A tradition inspired by disappointment over the election of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency stepped off this morning on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway for the fourth year in a row in a presidential election year in which women are once again vying to be the first to occupy …
Organizers of a Virginia gun rally urged thousands of people to attend this Monday’s event protesting Democrats’ push to stiffen the state’s gun laws after its top court upheld the governor’s emergency ban on weapons at the rally grounds.
MANCHESTER — Anti-Semitism in New Hampshire and the state’s Jewish heritage and culture will be topics of the 18th annual Martin Luther King Jr. dinner celebration on Monday night, put on by the National Cultural Diversity Awareness Council.
MANCHESTER — Angie’s Place, the former women-only shelter operated by New Horizons, will be converted into small apartments that will be leased out to homeless people under the Housing First model, leaders of Families in Transition said Tuesday.
Master Sgt. Jewell Robinson has set her eyes on a goal that goes beyond sparkles and a sash.
MANCHESTER — A Valley Street jail inmate faces two felony charges stemming from an alleged assault on corrections officers on Saturday.
A panel will examine poverty, racism, militarism and environmental devastation, as highlighted by the Poor People's Campaign.
EACH YEAR, we announce the annual cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). By law, federal benefits increase when the cost of living rises, as measured by the Department of Labor’s Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Usually, there is an increase in the benefit…
NASHUA — The U.S. Department of Justice for the first time ever in 2020 will collect national data on law enforcement suicides — a crisis that hit home hard four months ago in the Gate City.
HANOVER — The former head of the Psychological and Brain Sciences Department at the center of a sexual assault and harassment lawsuit was distraught when Dartmouth College failed to clear his name, and wouldn’t let him go public with a defense, according to a story this week in the New York Times.
In 2019 the Democratically-led state Legislature spent months fine-tuning and then passing a mandatory family and medical leave bill. On Wednesday, the House spent 10 minutes.
Student visas are far more generously given than work visas.
“All hate crimes are hoaxes,” read the flyer distributed by a white supremacist group at Keene State College last March.
The Hampton School District is taking steps to prevent racial and other types of bullying following an independent administrative review of its handling of allegations involving a former Marston School student who was targeted because she’s black.
CONCORD — A mentally ill person in treatment limbo — earmarked for transfer from the prison-run Secure Psychiatric Unit but unwanted at the New Hampshire State Hospital — goes before a state judge next week, hoping to win a transfer to the state hospital.
When Thomas McCue moved into a "sober home" in St. Paul in 2017, his parents felt hopeful that he was finally getting his life back on track after years of substance abuse and depression.
David Solie’s 89-year-old mother, Carol, was unyielding. “No, I will not move,” she told her son every time he suggested that she leave her home and relocate to a senior living residence.
LITCHFIELD — Although a little piece of her heart breaks every time she must say goodbye to a puppy she has trained for about a year, Noora McCormick says her work with Guiding Eyes for the Blind is overwhelmingly rewarding.
DUBAI - Iran's top rated chess champion has decided not to play for his country, Iranian news agencies reported on Tuesday, in an apparent reaction to Tehran's informal ban on competing against Israeli players.
NASHUA — Superintendent of Schools Jahmal Mosley is urging an outgoing school board member to respect black culture after the elected official said she was “free at last” following her final board meeting.
The blankets will be brought to Liberty House on Dec. 23.
MANCHESTER — Over two days last month, half of the 10 patients being treated at the Sununu Youth Treatment Center were hospitalized for suspected overdoses — including a suspected suicide attempt — a state investigation shows.
Officials at the Army and Navy academies are investigating whether hand signs flashed by students standing behind a reporter during a TV interview were intended to convey a message of white supremacy.
The wedding planning company's ads had been airing for more than a week when the Hallmark Channel said there was a problem.
While a new report shows a drop in the number of people experiencing homelessness in New Hampshire this year, advocates say the numbers don’t tell the real story.
WASHINGTON — Visitors to the White Eagle Memorial Preserve in southern Washington won’t find rows of headstones, manicured lawns or pathways to a loved one’s final resting place. Instead, they stroll through an oak and ponderosa forest set within more than a thousand acres of wilderness.
Mayor Jim Donchess has provided written consent to the U.S. Department of State, in accordance with President Donald Trump's executive order requiring state and local approval.
All are welcome to decorate and stuff Christmas stockings for our homeless veterans on Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Mary E. Bartlett Library at 10 a.m.
In recognition of her outstanding commitment to the youth of Laconia, Elizabeth Brothers was named the recipient of the 2019 Debra L. Bieniarz Memorial Award at Monday's city council meeting.
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu cleared the way Monday for state workers to bring their babies to work with them.
SEABROOK — When Seabrook firefighters decided to give new winter coats to local children, they didn’t want the donation to be based on a family’s income.
Officials say each session is the same and people are required to attend one of them.
Pete Frates, whose battle with ALS inspired the Ice Bucket Challenge that raised millions for research, died on Monday at age 34 after a seven-year battle with the disease, Boston College said.
Nashua is the latest school district to approve a new policy for transgender students.
Nashua is the latest school district to approve a new policy for transgender students.
When the northern city of Leeds began setting up its retail skills training center, manager Dianne Wainwright knew that one of her biggest problems was simply getting people in the door.
