As of late yesterday, state medical officials had not determined the cause of death for the inmate found unresponsive in the state prison over the weekend. Staff there said the autopsy would be finished today.
A fire of unknown origin damaged the second floor and attic of a home near downtown yesterday morning, forcing a refugee family from Liberia to seek shelter elsewhere for the foreseeable future.
The 55-year-old Concord man charged Friday with raping a young girl he met through a single parenting support group was arrested yesterday by the Hooksett police on new charges that he raped the girl in that town as well.
PSNH'S LARGEST FORAY into renewable energy, the wood-fired boiler built in Portsmouth in 2006, has reached a milestone. On Jan. 30, Northern Wood Power at Schiller Station produced its 1 billionth kilowatt hour of energy, the utility said in a statement.
THEY'VE BEEN CLEANED, reframed and re-hung, but the floral panels hanging in the Concord Public Library aren't new. They were painted in 1936 by Penacook resident Margaret Masson, a project funded by the New Deal-era Works Progress Administration.
The Obama administration yesterday asked California's largest for-profit health insurer to justify plans to increase customers' premiums by as much as 39 percent, a move that could affect about 800,000 people.
Authorities launched a criminal investigation yesterday into the cause of an explosion that killed five people at a Connecticut power plant under construction, saying they could not rule out criminal negligence.
A body found in the landing-gear compartment of a Delta Air Lines Inc. jet that flew to Tokyo's Narita Airport from New York may spur a fresh review of U.S. aviation security.
Neighbors of William and Judith Small, the Epsom couple whose home was demolished in a three-alarm blaze last week, have set up a fund to help the pair get back on their feet.
Dartmouth College will lay off 38 nonteaching employees now and a similar number in April to help cut the school's budget by $100 million over two years, President Jim Yong Kim said yesterday.
China recalled more than 170 tons of milk powder after authorities found some batches of tainted dairy products ordered to be destroyed in 2008 had instead been redistributed.
As Iran moved to enrich uranium to a higher level of purity and build new nuclear-fuel plants, U.S. and French defense officials suggested yesterday that sanctions were needed to force Tehran to curb its nuclear program.
The commander of Canada's largest Air Force base, who once flew dignitaries around the country, has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two women.
Rep. John Murtha, the tall, gruff-mannered former Marine who became the de facto voice of veterans on Capitol Hill and later an outspoken and influential critic of the Iraq war, died yesterday. He was 77.
State hospitals and health care providers are still calculating the impact of impending cuts to their funding. But, they warn, providers will not shoulder the cuts alone. Eventually, the cost of the services will be borne by average people through higher insurance premiums.
FairPoint Communications Inc. would shed about $1.8 billion in debt, out of a total of $2.8 billion, under a reorganization plan the troubled telecommunications company filed yesterday with a federal bankruptcy court. But the company said it is still committed to increasing broadband internet access in northern New England.
A superior court judge yesterday granted a request from Concord developer Kevin Guay to delay his civil trial related to charges he polluted Penacook Lake.
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