Manchester News

DUMMERSTON, Vt., May 4, 2012 -- "To all of the thousands of good and decent Americans I've met who want nothing more than a better chance, a fighting chance, to all of you, I have a simple message: Hold on a little longer.

Among other regional airports, passenger traffic was down 2.9 percent at Manchester Airport in New Hampshire, while volume at T.F. Green Airport outside Providence was up 4.6 percent in March.

The Manchester, New Hampshire diocese has agreed to pay $2,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a couple who charged that a priest had asked their son inappropriate questions during a sacramental confession.

Joseph W. McQuaid, president and publisher of the Union Leader Corporation, is presented the Singer Family Kids Champion Award by Gary Singer, executive officer of Merchants Automotive Group Inc.

NHTI graduates head into a large white tent for the start of the 63rd Commencement Exercise.

Two people were sent to the hospital Friday afternoon after a chain reaction crash on Route 125 involving a school bus and five other vehicles.

In Chechnya, Musa Khadzhimuradov was known under the nick Spartak and served as a bodyguard to Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev, who is currently living in exile in London.

The decision has left Do you know Him? Ministries without an outdoor location in the downtown area to serve the breakfast.

Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev wrote a note before his capture in which he called the victims "collateral damage" for America's actions in Afghanistan and Iraq, local media reported on Thursday.

A young woman whose name most Manchester students have never heard is on the verge of changing the city's health curriculum for the better.

Maggie Hassan told the 368 graduates of the University of New Hampshire at Manchester at Thursday's commencement that the Granite State can help them find their future.

BRENTWOOD The parents of a Salem student seriously injured in 2010 after she fell 15 feet through an opening in bleachers at Salem High School are suing the school district and the town.

State Trooper Scott Frye steps forward to collect his Hero Award Wednesday at the State House in Concord.

The restaurant, open since December at 9 High St., offers locals a dining experience that isn't stuffy, but offers high-quality meals at reasonable prices, said Guy Streitburger, who owns the restaurant with his wife, Jen Lutzen.

Former New Hampshire Attorney General Michael A. Delaney is joining the litigation practice group of McLane, Graf, Raulerson & Middleton Professional Association, the law firm announced Thursday.

Anselm College. Each year New Hampshire National Guardsmen and Reservists or their family members nominate supportive employers who have gone above and beyond the call of duty in standing behind our citizen soldiers while they are deployed on foreign soil or away for military service domestically.

Manchester police Officer Nathan Linstad testified in his own defense during his simple assault trial on Wednesday in Rockingham County Superior Court.

Angela Lavoy, left, regent of the Mercy Hathaway White Chapter, and Jan Carlson, center, the chaplain, welcome new member Elizabeth O'Donnell during a recent meeting.

This week, 900 Degrees Wood Fired Pizzeria announced plans to open its second restaurant in the Brickyard Square shopping center at the junction of Routes 125 and 101.

After nearly a month of hearings, testimony and discussions, the Joint House Finance and Ways and Means Committee voted Wednesday by the slimmest of margins to kill casino gambling.