LACONIA — Officials shut down several streets and evacuated residents and businesses early Tuesday morning following a potentially dangerous nitric acid spill at a fabrication business off Court Street. More...
LOS ANGELES — Carla Waller believes in promises. She was married for 37 years, held one job for 35 and never adopted a pet she didn’t keep for life. Until now. More...
THAT FIRE OFFICIALS believe ignited the brush fire off Cherry Valley Road in Gilford last week left its mark on this tree. The fire burned around an acre of land. More...
LACONIA — A city man has pleaded guilty to two special felony counts of selling the painkiller oxycodone to a detective with the NH Attorney General’s Drug Task Force in Laconia in July 2011. Ryan W. More...
LACONIA — With the arrest of a Warren Street resident, the Laconia Police Department has closed a several-month-long investigation into the distribution of the drug Oxycodone. More...
It’s gradually emerged in recent months that the Food and Drug Administration not only spied on its employees, but did so on a massive scale — collecting tens of thousands of employee emails to one another, as well as to journalists, memb More...
DEAR ABBY: I’m a 12- year-old girl and I hope you will print this because it’s about something important. I have an iPod Touch. My friends and I wanted to text, so I asked my mom if I could download a program to talk to my friends. More...
GILFORD — Members of the Gilford Zoning Board of Adjustment granted a special exception to Route 11 Realty Trust, the developers proposing the Walmart expansion plan, giving the company the last approval needed at the local level to continue in More...
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and ANDREW TAYLOR Associated Press
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul will shrink rather than increase the nation’s huge federal deficits over the next decade, Congress’ nonpartisan budget scorekeepers said Tuesday, supporting Obama&rsqu More...
CONCORD — A federal prosecutor said Tuesday he expects to bring more charges against a traveling medical technician accused of infecting 30 patients with hepatitis C in New Hampshire, and health officials said they are casting a wider net as th More...
BEIRUT — Fighter jets unleashed sonic booms and helicopter gunships strafed rebels as they pressed their fight Tuesday into new neighborhoods in Aleppo, Syria’s largest city. More...
LONDON — Britain’s phone hacking scandal entered a new and expanded criminal phase Tuesday, with charges brought against two former members of Prime Minister David Cameron’s inner circle over a campaign of illegal espionage that has More...
Pats add key players, hope for return to Super Bowl
By HOWARD ULMAN AP Sports Writer
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Bill Belichick and his players weren’t ecstatic when they got their AFC championship rings. Receiving their consolation prize last month was “bittersweet,” he said. More...
New Hampshire high school football is getting a makeover. The NHIAA — the governing body for the state’s intercollegiate athletics — decided to slim down the number of divisions in 2013. More...
BOSTON — Just because the Boston Bruins are bringing back the core of last year’s team doesn’t mean they’re content to stand pat, general manager Peter Chiarelli said Tuesday after signing coach Claude Julien to a contract ext More...
Editor, The Citizen: To clear up any misconceptions, Jeanie Forrester is committed to conducting an honest public dialog where the candidates will have the opportunity to share where they stand on the issues. More...
Editor, The Citizen: The Barnstead Farmers and Gardeners Network is pleased to announce that our First Annual Open Farm Day was a tremendous success. All of our farms experienced a great turnout. More...
Editor, The Citizen: I guess you could say everyone who lives in Governor’s Council District 1 would say the same thing. Ray Burton has been a strong advocate for everybody in the North Country. More...