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Concord Monitor

The Concord Monitor is a Pulitzer Prize winning daily newspaper and website located in the capital city of New Hampshire. The Concord Monitor is Central NH's dominant media with more than 70 percent household penetration. The Monitor is a key source of news and information for Concord, NH.

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NH gets its turn after Trump’s big win in Iowa puts new pressure on Haley and DeSantis

by Holly Ramer Associated Press, Bill Barrow Associated Press, and Jeffrey Collins Associated PressJanuary 16, 2024

After Donald Trump’s record victory in the Iowa caucuses, New Hampshire voters now get their turn to decide just how competitive the Republican nominating fight will be as the former president continues to dominate his party.Former U.N. Ambassador…

A truck and a car sit in a creek Sunday, Aug. 22, 2021, after they were washed away the day before in McEwen, Tenn. Heavy rains caused flooding in Middle Tennessee and have resulted in multiple deaths as homes and rural roads were washed away. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)

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22 dead, many missing after 17 inches of rain in Tennessee

by Jonathan Mattise Associated Press, and Jeffrey Collins Associated PressAugust 22, 2021

Melissa Anne "Mac" Cunningham-Sereque shows the wand used to do ultrasound on pregnant women during a South Carolina House subcommittee hearing on an abortion bill on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, in Columbia, S.C. The bill would outlaw almost all abortions in the state. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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South Carolina House passes bill banning most abortions

by Jeffrey Collins Associated PressFebruary 17, 2021

Shoppers wait on one of several lines to make purchases at the farmer’s market at Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn on Saturday, May 2, 2020. As warmer temperatures tempted New Yorkers to come out of quarantine due to coronavirus, police dispatched 1,000 officers this weekend to enforce social distancing and a ban on congregating in public spaces. (AP Photo/Peter Morgan)

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Soaking it up – at a distance

by David Porter Associated Press, and Jeffrey Collins Associated PressMay 2, 2020

FILE - In this Aug. 1, 2007, file photo, construction crews work on early stages of a new mixed oxide fuel, or MOX fabrication facility at the Savannah River nuclear complex near Aiken, S.C. The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear South Carolina’s appeal of a ruling allowing the federal government to shut down the under construction nuclear fuel facility in the state. The justices refused to hear the case without comment on Monday, Oct. 14, 2019. A federal appeals court ruled in October 2018 the U.S. Energy Department could stop work on the multi-billion dollar plant at the Savannah River Site near Aiken. (Grace Beahm/The Post And Courier via AP, File)

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Supreme Court lets U.S. stop work on $8B SC nuclear fuel plant

by Jeffrey Collins Associated PressOctober 15, 2019

Blue sky is visible from Buxton, N.C., as Hurricane Dorian passes over Hatteras Island early Friday, Sept. 6, 2019. A weakened Hurricane Dorian flooded homes on North Carolina's Outer Banks on Friday with a ferocity that seemed to take storm-hardened residents by surprise. (Steve Earley/The Virginian-Pilot via AP)

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Dorian’s floodwaters trap people in attics in North Carolina

by Jeffrey Collins Associated Press, and Ben Finley Associated PressSeptember 6, 2019

Students pray together during a vigil at the University of North Carolina-Charlotte in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, May 1, 2019 after a student with a pistol killed two people and wounded four others on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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Student slain while attacking gunman gets hero’s send-off

by Tom Foreman Jr.. Associated Press, and Jeffrey Collins Associated PressMay 2, 2019

FILE - In this Jan. 10, 2017, file photo, Clemson head coach Dabo Swinney celebrates defeating Alabama 35-31 in the NCAA college football playoff championship game, in Tampa, Fla. Swinney has agreed to the biggest contract in college football history, paying him 92 million over the next 10 years. Trustees approved the contract Friday, April 26, 2019, which runs through 2028. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

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Clemson coach Dabo Swinney signs largest college football contract ever

by Jeffrey Collins Associated PressApril 26, 2019

Jee Patel checks out a customer at the KC Mart on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2019, in Simpsonville, South Carolina. The store sold the only Mega Millions ticket to win the 1.5 billion jackpot in October 2018. The ticket has not been claimed. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)

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Unclaimed $1.5B jackpot mystery: Winner died? Ticket lost?

by Jeffrey Collins Associated Press, and Rebecca Santana Associated PressFebruary 24, 2019

Kevin Tovornik exits his travel camper located in the back yard of his home damaged by flooding from Hurricane Florence near the Crabtree Swamp Friday, Feb. 1, 2019, in Conway, S.C. Tovornik lost his air conditioner and duct work in the 2016 flood. In 2018, he saved his furniture, but still ended up losing the house.

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Climate change means more floods, great and localized

by Jeffrey Collins Associated PressFebruary 16, 2019