Manchester Metro News

U.S. Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, today cancelled a planned trip to New Hampshire scheduled for tomorrow due to the death of Jill Biden's mother.

Felony theft charges against a classic-car dealer in Merrimack were unsealed earlier this week, but his arraignment has yet to be scheduled, court records show.

A man who said he has lived in Concord and Manchester, N.H., has been returned to the state to face charges that he stole more than $35,000 from his elderly father's checking account.

Megan Papadoplas, 24, is charged with prostitution. She was arrested at 11 p.m. at Ashland and Hanover streets after she allegedly agreed to have sex, in exchange for money, with an undercover police officer.

Queen City residents will not be voting whether to cap city spending at next month's general election.

Katherine Mendola, 27, could spend the next 30 years in prison after a jury found her guilty yesterday of paying an undercover police officer to kill the wife of a prominent Manchester attorney.

State leaders will soon decide if New Hampshire should continue to accept federal money that subsidizes abstinence-only education for teens.

A man who helped murder Jack Reid Sr. choked up on the witness stand yesterday as he recounted the Derry handyman's death.

Amy Grant and Vince Gill have announced a 15-date Christmas tour that will kick off Dec.

Richard Bates Couser, 67, of Concord, died Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2008, at home after a long battle with cancer.

Jurors earlier in the week saw 27-year-old Katherine Mendola on video talking with an undercover officer posing as a hit man about killing Wendy Branch, the wife of lawyer B.J. Branch.

More than half of New Hampshire residents think that the state is correct to classify the murder of a police officer as a crime punishable by death, according to the results of a new Monitor poll.

Steadying his twitching body against the podiums in front of him, actor and activist Michael J. Fox urged university crowds in Durham and Manchester yesterday to vote for Senate candidate Jeanne Shaheen, saying ...

The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed a federal version of a New Hampshire law allowing college students to take up to a year off of school for medical reasons and remain on their family's health insurance.

At a meeting in a Las Vegas bar, John "Jay" Brooks asked one of his employees to help murder a Derry handyman, Joseph Vrooman testified yesterday.

The Manchester facility, which will be owned by Harbor Homes, will be operated by Manchester's Liberty House, a homeless shelter for veterans.

The Weare police were in for an unpleasant discovery after arresting a convicted felon later found to be concealing "distribution" amounts of crack cocaine in his buttocks.

Michael K. Addison allegedly was involved in shooting at the Uptown Tavern shortly before a city police officer was killed, court records reveal.

A federal bankruptcy judge who resigned after his drunken driving arrest has a new job.

Priests at the four Catholic churches in Concord are already stretched thin. But soon, they will have to make do with even less help.