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Uproar over Khashoggi killing grows

Saudi Arabia's foreign minister denied on Sunday that the nation's powerful young crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi's killing, but the attempt to distance Mohammed bin Salman from the journalist's demise did little to blunt an international uproar that could test Saudi Arabia's status as a regional power.

 

Former Grenon Trading building could be razed

The former Grenon Trading Co. warehouse building along Route 101 could possibly be razed and replaced with two new commercial buildings.

 

Pumpkins take to the sky at Extreme Chunkin Festival

If Granite Staters living near the New Hampshire Motor Speedway thought they saw pumpkins, cars or other large items flying through the sky last weekend, it wasn't their eyes playing tricks on them. Instead, it was the fourth annual Extreme Chunkin Festival, a yearly gathering of hobbyist engineers from across the country who use catapults and...

 

Biomass vote saved his job

To the Editor: On Sept. 13, Rep. Karen Umberger cast her vote in a special session of the New Hampshire legislature to keep the biomass plant where I work alive.

 

David Harsanyi: The unremarkable except to lib media Beto O'Rourke

DESPITE MY BEST efforts, I know exactly what Texas U.S. Senate candidate Beto O'Rourke's post-punk indie band from the mid-'90s sounds like not so bad as you'd think!.

 

Pot may now be legal in Canada, but not at U.S. border

Neither the federal agency charged with enforcing drug laws at the border crossing here nor a pro-marijuana group expect much impact on the North Country from Canada's making legal the possession of cannabis.

 

Elementary schools pull UNH-developed sex survey after outcry over sexual identity question

An Upper Valley nonprofit taking heat for an elementary school survey asking children about their sexual identities and sexual partners announced it is suspending the survey and sending it back to the University of New Hampshire for reworking.

 

Looking Back with Aurore Eaton: Manchester's Zo Elliott and his famous World War I song

The Manchester Historic Association's current special exhibition 'Manchester and the Great War' focuses on the impact of World War I on the city and its people.

 

Raymond teens push for prevention

With all the attention on the state's opioid crisis, some Raymond teens are urging adults to put more resources into preventing kids from trying alcohol and marijuana.

 

NH Voices - Mike Smith: A lost opportunity for North Country jobs

ON SEPT. 19, a groundbreaking ceremony was held to commemorate the start of construction for the Lancaster Patient Care Center.

 

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