LOWELL, Mass. – Former Vice President Joe Biden has a 10-point lead over President Donald Trump in the contest for the White House in a new national poll of likely voters released today by the UMass Lowell Center for Public Opinion. Including the minor party candidates on the ballot, Biden ...
Martha is stylish in her aqua clip-on cycling shoes that match her aqua “gravel grinder” bicycle, helmet and bicycling jersey, while I wear a T-shirt, 10-year-old sneakers, a florescent vest and a bright red helmet with attached light. We are in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, for a long ...
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Backed into a corner and facing financial strains, President Donald Trump went after his opponent's family and defended his own struggle to contain the pandemic as he fought to energize his sagging reelection bid in the nation's Sun Belt. With Election Day looming, Democrat ...
More than 22 million Americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election, a record-shattering avalanche of early votes driven both by Democratic enthusiasm and a pandemic that has transformed the way the nation votes. The 22.2 million ballots submitted as of Friday night represents 16% ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — For Republicans, the nomination fight over Amy Coney Barrett is a chance to seal conservative control of the Supreme Court for decades. For some GOP senators, it's also a lifeline they hope will preserve their political careers and their party's control of the chamber in ...
CONCORD – Saying Gov. Chris Sununu’s new fund to help out schools is inadequate to meet costs from COVID-19, a bipartisan legislative advisory board voted 4-2 Friday to ask him to earmark more funds. A new $200 per pupil fund totaling $35 million was announced Thursday to help schools and ...
CONCORD – New Hampshire officials didn’t take kindly to Massachusetts approving a final rule that imposes Massachusetts’ income tax on New Hampshire residents who are working from home for Massachusetts companies. And the press releases started flying showing there is at least one ...
CONCORD – Hockey has been identified as a “high risk” activity likely causing community spread of COVID-19 and the state is taking a two-week “intermission” on all ice rink action, Gov. Chris Sununu said. This pause in action is on everything from public skating to UNH ...
CONCORD – The state Department of Health and Human Services announced 82 new positive test results for COVID-19, and five new deaths on Thursday. The deaths involved two women and two men from Hillsborough County, and one woman from Rockingham County, all over age 60. Check number of ...
CONCORD – With COVID-19 cases in New Hampshire continuing to increase across the state, it is not likely that there will be any continued flex opening of businesses for now, the governor’s policy director told members of the Governor’s Economic Reopening Task Force on Thursday. D.J. ...
NASHUA – Saturday's scheduled dedication of the Nashua Historical Society's new historic highway marker has been postponed to Oct. 24 due to inclement weather. The program begins at 10 a.m. in front of the society's Abbot-Spalding House Museum at the corner of Nashville and Abbott ...
NASHUA – Officers who responded to a "frantic" 911 call early Tuesday morning from a woman screaming she had been stabbed arrived to find her covered in blood, suffering from a laceration serious enough to send her into surgery as soon as she arrived at St. Joseph Hospital by ambulance, ...
HUDSON – State health officials said Friday they have identified at least 17 cases of COVID-19 associated with Fat Katz Food & Drink, a restaurant and lounge located in the 102 Plaza, 76 Derry Road. The officials said that while Department of Health and Human Services representatives ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans powered Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett closer to confirmation Thursday, pushing past Democratic objections and other priorities during the COVID-19 crisis in the drive to seat President Donald Trump's pick before the Nov. 3 election. The Senate ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden faced inquisitive voters on separate stages in different cities Thursday night in a substitute for the debate that was meant to be. Here's how some of the rhetoric compared with the facts in the prime-time events and a ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits rose last week by the most in two months, to 898,000, a historically high number and evidence that layoffs remain a hindrance to the economy's recovery from the pandemic recession. Thursday's report from the Labor ...
MANCHESTER – The issue of health care took center stage in the U.S. Senate campaign in New Hampshire on Wednesday with Republican challenger Corky Messner taking aim at Democratic incumbent Jeanne Shaheen for her support of the Affordable Care Act. And Shaheen’s campaign aiming back as ...
CONCORD – On Wednesday, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced 71 new positive test results for COVID-19. The state also announced two additional deaths related to COVID-19, a woman from Hillsborough County and a man from Strafford County, both 60 years of age and ...
NORTH CONWAY – New Hampshire’s outdoor community is coming together to network, advocate and educate visitors through a new membership-based nonprofit. On Wednesday, state leaders helped to officially launch the Granite Outdoor Alliance https://www.graniteoutdooralliance.org/ which looks ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate Judiciary Committee is poised to take the first steps toward approving Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett following two long days of Senate testimony in which she stressed that she would be her own judge and sought to create distance between herself and past ...
