New Hampshire beats Maine, 28-24 (Miami Herald) - Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:56:02 GMT
R.J. Toman passed for 127 yards and two touchdowns to lift New Hampshire to a 28-24 win over Maine on Saturday.

Maine/New Hampshire news briefs (Portsmouth Herald) - Sat, 22 Nov 2008 15:32:27 GMT
STANDISH, Maine (AP) and#8212; The Standish Town Council is speaking out against a sign at a local store that asked customers to bet on a date when President-elect Barack Obama would be assassinated.

Good/bad economic news in Hampshire (The Courier News) - Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:10:16 GMT
As Village President Jeff Magnussen and Village Administrator Eric Palm briefed Hampshire Area Chamber of Commerce members about the state of the village Wednesday, a recurring theme was that one thing after another will have to be delayed or cut back because of the dreary economy.

New Hampshire takes next step to White House (Tiscali) - Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:25:20 GMT
MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New Hampshire voters headed to the polls to choose candidates for U.S. president on Tuesday, with Hillary Clinton fighting to keep her once high-flying Democratic campaign alive against rival Barack Obama’s surge.

News of the Weird (Provo Daily Herald) - Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:04:31 GMT
When a four-bedroom house inhabited by 50 tenants partially collapsed in October in Honolulu, at least 10 of the residents said they had been pressured to let the property manager give them experimental "stem-cell" injections. Manager Daniel Cunningham, 56 and a de-licensed chiropractor, said he has been injecting the substance, phenol, into himself for years, to treat gnarled hands (though the ...

Sarkozy asks Russia not to deploy missiles (Guardian Unlimited) - Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:56:36 GMT
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, said today that he had asked Russia not to deploy missiles in response to US plans for a missile defence shield in eastern Europe. Speaking at a joint news conference with the Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, following a Russia - EU summit in Nice, Sarkozy said Medvedev had responded positively to his proposal. Medvedev announced last week ...

Mysterious Facebook page loves New Hampshire (Concord Monitor) - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 06:32:44 GMT
The state of New Hampshire has a Facebook page that wasn't created by the state of New Hampshire. More than 5,600 people have subscribed as fans to the online social-networking page. They have used it to opine on the ongoing relevance of the motto "Live Free or Die" and to trade stories about where they were when the Old Man of the Mountain fell.

Fast News: Merrimack brewery receives award (Merrimack Journal) - Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:04:42 GMT
CONCORD – The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services has announced the winners of the 2008 Governor’s Award for Pollution Prevention.

Exchange rate plunge has many Brits staying home (New York Daily News) - Sun, 23 Nov 2008 08:51:07 GMT
Legions of British shoppers used to delight in popping across the Atlantic Ocean for bargain iPods, Levis and Abercrombie and Fitch gear when the pound was worth $2 but they're cutting back now that it has plunged to $1.50.