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Members of the office staff at two closed financial companies in Meredith are under fire.

University of New Hampshire students are protesting the planned conversion of a dormitory by taping their mouths shut.

Panic set in for Karen Best when she realized that the cash she needed for the next two weeks was gone, but that panic was replaced by surprise at the effort strangers made to help her out.

Eight people were arrested by Pelham police following a three-month investigation of OxyContin use and sales.

A victim of a snowmobile crash is arrested after, police say, he punched a police officer and interfered with rescuers trying to help his brother, who suffered a heart attack while trying to rescue him.

The state's unemployment rate dropped slightly from October to November, according to figures released Monday by the Department of Employment Security.

Police in Hampstead said a man died after his truck crashed into a tree and caught fire, despite attempts by a police officer and other drivers to free him from the vehicle.

Seven people were arrested in drug raids across Portsmouth on Monday that police say targeted low-level drug dealers who sold to high school students.

University of New Hampshire professors are threatening to boycott summer school if they can't reach a contract agreement with university officials.

University of New Hampshire students are putting tape over their mouths to protest a decision to turn a residence hall into an administrative building.

A Manchester man charged with robbery allegedly told police that he robbed a bank to give his children a good Christmas.

MANCHESTER, N.H. -- A Firefighters performed a dramatic demonstration in Manchester Sunday night, to warn people of the dangers of thin ice. Firefighters submerged themselves in frigid water to showt hat the ice is still too thin to venture out on.

Roads in New Hampshire get slick almost as soon as the snow started to fall.

An agreement will allow incarcerated illegal aliens to choose deportation over completion of their full prison sentences.

New Hampshire State Police records indicate the number of criminal records that have been annulled in the state has increased sharply over the past decade.

The Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth-Hitchcock Keene temporarily loses phone service.

A Vermont nonprofit group is delivering new children's books around Vermont weeks before Christmas.

A family pet is found dead and three people are injured in a two-alarm fire in Concord.

CONCORD -- A Northwood couple is celebrating their daughter's first birthday this weekend and remembering the natural disaster that surrounded her arrival.