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Concord Northeast champs Thomson Lawn Care (above) defeated Banks Chevrolet, 2-0, to stay undefeated and capture its second straight Concord Northeast Cal Ripken title. Kurtis Stadnicki and Zach Miles…
Cimo's Deli stays undefeated in winning Towle Cup championship
Coach Glenn Mathews of Concord National Youth Softball's Cimo's Deli said, "This is probably the most talented team I've ever been able to coach." But Mathews attributes yesterday's 8-1 Towle Cup championship…
Blackhawks beat Bruins 6-5 in OT, tie series 2-2
BOSTON - Brent Seabrook's goal 9:51 into overtime lifted the Chicago Blackhawks to a wild 6-5 victory over the Boston Bruins last night and tied the Stanley Cup finals through four games. Seabrook fired…
A title, and legacies, on the line for Heat, Spurs
MIAMI - Game 7s do more than settle championships. They define legacies. No matter what happens tonight, LeBron James and the Miami Heat, and Tim Duncan's San Antonio Spurs have already won NBA titles…
Headlines from around the world in sports
BASEBALL Yankees' Jeter takes batting practice in Tampa TAMPA, Fla. - Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter took on-field batting practice for the first time since being cleared to increase his rehabilitation…
Biffle, Edwards not on same page after Michigan race
BROOKLYN, Mich. - Greg Biffle was thrilled after his victory last weekend in Michigan. Teammate Carl Edwards was a little bit miffed. Biffle's Sprint Cup victory gave Ford Motor Co. 1,000 wins across…
NHL general managers endorse rules changes
BOSTON - Hybrid icing could be on its way to the NHL. The league's general managers met yesterday and embraced many of the changes recommended by the competition committee, including hybrid icing and…
NBA Finals Game 6 draws 20.6 million viewers
Well deserving The Heat's wild overtime win over the Spurs in the NBA Finals drew the second-largest audience for a Game 6 since ABC started televising the series in 2003. Miami's 103-100 victory Tuesday…
Body found near Patriot Hernandez's home was homicide victim
BOSTON - A man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's home had been killed, a prosecutor said yesterday. The state medical examiner identified…
Vaccine shown to reduce cancer-causing sex virus in teen girls
Vaccinating teen girls against human papillomavirus, the most common sexually transmitted infection, has helped lead to a 56 percent decline in cases among young women, a report has found. Among females…
Bulger's ex-enforcer grilled about varying stories
A former hitman who admitted to killing 20 people insisted yesterday that he told authorities the truth when he implicated James "Whitey" Bulger in 11 slayings, but he acknowledged lying in the past, including…
Men's Wearhouse ousts founder, pitchman George Zimmer
Men's Wearhouse doesn't like the way its founder looks anymore. The men's clothier said yesterday that it has fired the face of the company and its executive chairman, George Zimmer, 64, who appeared…
FBI ends Michigan search for Hoffa's remains
Beneath a swimming pool, under a horse farm and now a weed-grown field north of Detroit. For at least the third time in a decade, FBI agents grabbed shovels and combed through dirt and mud in the search…
Firefox browser to offer users 'Do Not Track' option
The maker of the popular Firefox internet browser is moving ahead with plans to block the most common forms of internet tracking, allowing hundreds of millions of users to limit who watches their movements…
U.S. and Cuba agree to resume migration talks
The United States and Cuba have agreed to resume bilateral talks on migration issues next month, a State Department official said yesterday, the latest evidence of a thaw in chilly relations between the…
New Colorado wildfire prompts evacuations of homes
A new wildfire in the foothills southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of dozens of homes yesterday, as hot and windy conditions in much of Colorado were making it easy for new fires to start and spread.…
'Futurama' goes on one last Bender
Futurama's general lot in life was underappreciation. Matt Groening and David X. Cohen's lovably nerdy cartoon series premiered in 1999 on Fox to mixed reviews and the afterglow of Groening's Simpsons…
Need some tips on enjoying this weekend's Granite State Music Festival? We've got them!
Unless you're a giant stick in the mud, you're pretty much guaranteed to have fun at the Granite State Music Festival. With a jam-packed line-up of music, plus food, beer and community flavor - minus the…
Kanye West's blasphemous, beguiling 'Yeezus'
Where is your Kanye limit, the temperature level at which fascination boils over into exasperation? That's an issue with any Kanye West album, but perhaps especially with the new Yeezus flooding the internet…
U.S. tries saving Taliban talks after Karzai objects
Hopes dimmed for talks aimed at ending the Afghan war when an angry President Hamid Karzai yesterday suspended security negotiations with the United States and scuttled a peace delegation to the Taliban,…
Blues Traveler, known for its quirky '90s hits, to play Cap Center
It's hard to believe the band Blues Traveler has been around for a quarter of a century. It seems like just yesterday fans feverishly played "Hook" over and over asking, "Did he really just say Anne Boleyn?"…
nhdoti93: NH TRAFFIC ALERT: In Bow I-93 NB the on ramp to I-89 NB is closed due to constuction. Detour using Exit 12N
No Jackpot Winner
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - None of the tickets sold for the Powerball game Wednesday evening matched all six numbers drawn, which were:
BenLeubsdorf: No "path to Medicaid expansion," no state budget, #NHHouse Speaker @TerieNorelli told @APnlove today (link) #NHpolitics
