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NH Sen. Ayotte cancels event with IN's Mourdock
New Hampshire Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte has cancelled her plan to campaign with Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who said that when a ...
Unions shift political might to state, local races
Unions are shifting more of their political resources to state and local races this year as they try to head off passage of laws that could undermine ...
Obama: Romney 'whiffed' on tax cut explanation
President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney can't explain his plan for a $5 trillion tax cut. Addressing a rally in New Hampshire, Obama said his ...
Many strict election laws blocked or delayed
Tough new election laws aimed at forcing voters in many states to show photo identification at polling places have been blocked or delayed, delighting ...
Search for NH student's body focuses on water
Authorities in Maine and Massachusetts are being asked to watch their shores for the body of a University of New Hampshire student believed to have ...
Suspect called upbeat after UNH student's killing
An actor and martial arts instructor accused of killing a female University of New Hampshire student last week was upbeat and described his life as ...
Missing NH college student dead; suspect charged
A martial arts instructor active in community theater was charged Saturday in the death of a 19-year-old University of New Hampshire student who ...
NH's small size belies its political power
New Hampshire's nickname is "the Granite State" but there's nothing solid about its political landscape. Independent voters have been the reason in ...
Romney's message may be losing its luster in NH
Mitt Romney is a part-time resident of this tiny state, and his fiscally conservative, socially moderate tenure as governor of neighboring ...
Obama, Romney: Rivals with little personal history
When Mitt Romney's wife, Ann, was diagnosed with breast cancer in late 2008, one of the people who reached out to the couple was newly elected ...
NASCAR: Hamlin takes New Hampshire for 5th win
Denny Hamlin stepped out of his car, pointed into the air and took a mighty swing of an invisible baseball bat. Like Babe Ruth did before him (or so ...
ODU's Heinicke passes for D-I record 730 yards
Taylor Heinicke set a Division I record by passing for 730 yards as Old Dominion rallied to beat New Hampshire 64-61 in the Colonial Athletic ...
Biden hits Romney's 47 percent remark in NH
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Vice President Joe Biden says GOP nominee Mitt Romney is "profoundly wrong" in saying 47 percent of Americans see ...
Baby girl is born in parking lot of NH racetrack
A New Hampshire woman and her baby are doing fine after the woman gave birth in the New Hampshire Motor Speedway parking lot. Shawna Arnold began ...
NH attorney says med tech spread hepatitis in 2008
A New Hampshire attorney says a client contracted hepatitis C from a traveling hospital worker two years earlier than has been previously alleged he ...
Race may be down to a handful of unknowns
Flush with cash, Mitt Romney plans to open a new front in the White House race by challenging President Barack Obama in upper Midwest states where he ...
Gloomy jobs report shadows race with 60 days left
A dismal new snapshot of jobs in America shadowed the presidential campaign on Friday, testing the voter patience that will save or sink President ...
Obama: Unemployment report "not good enough"
President Barack Obama says news that private employers created just 96,000 jobs last month is "not good enough" and the economy needs to churn out ...
Romney defends Afghanistan omission
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Thursday defended his decision not to discuss the Afghanistan war in his convention speech. He said ...
Romney sequestered in Vermont for debate prep
Obama-Biden signs dot the back roads of Vermont, a state that has voted for a Democratic president since 1988. One of the shops in the nearby town of ...
Mormons praise Romney for spotlighting the faith
Republican Mitt Romney, the first Mormon presidential nominee of a major political party, sat in the Wolfeboro Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
Police: NH woman arrested 4 times in 26 hours
Authorities say a New Hampshire woman has been arrested four times in 26 hours for blasting the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and other loud music from ...
Romney hopes Gulf Coast spared major destruction
Mitt Romney suggested Monday that he's not considering canceling the Republican National Convention even as New Orleans faces another powerful storm ...