Union News

BACKGROUND: New Hampshire avoided the fate of six other states that did not have a budget agreement in place for the start of the fiscal year on July 1. CONCLUSION: But that doesn't mean everything is just dandy with the faith-based budget adopted by the state Legislature last month.

Beth-Anne Hale knows better than anyone the grief of the mother of a 13-month-old boy who died in a Manchester fire last month.

A court review says three violent sex offenders were released as New Hampshire authorities worked to keep them behind bars because prosecutors did not make it clear to judges that deadlines had to be met to keep them confined.

A Lancaster, N.H., man who drowned as he rescued a young boy from a frigid river is one of 22 people awarded Carnegie medals for heroism.

An elder care organization has agreed to buy the entire 91-acre campus of the community college in Stratham.

Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is discussing an affiliation with Catholic Medical Center in Manchester.

The following items, based on entries in the Rochester Police Log, were selected from 1,151 calls for service from June 1 to 6: Monday, June 1 1:26 a.m. - Two young teens are taken into protective custody on Charles Street.

State Budget The state budget is written and faces a final vote from lawmakers. NH Outlook's host Richard Ager and a panel of State House reporters including Tom Fahey of the Union Leader, Lauren Dorgan of the Concord Monitor and Josh Rogers of NHPR, discuss the budget.

There will be no disruption at the last operating paper mill in Coos County, as its parent company files for creditor protection in the U.S. and Canada.

Reaction was swift and mostly negative yesterday to a proposal to possibly jettison 27 state parks.

Bright and hardworking like his immigrant parents, Edmond Lo's future grew even more promising when he was offered a full scholarship to a prominent engineering school.

New Hampshire Electric Cooperative executives are exploring whether federal stimulus funds can be used to replace traditional electric meters with "smart" ones.

A Carroll County grand jury has charged a Jackson man with voting for President twice in November's general election, according to the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office.

The suspect in Wednesday's Holocaust museum shooting in Washington, D.C., used to live in Lebanon, N.H. James von Brunn - now 88 and living in Maryland - was listed as living there when he was charged in 1981 with trying to kidnap members of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C. He went to prison until 1989.

A father's heroic attempt to save his disabled daughter in a fire ended tragically yesterday when both died in their second-floor apartment at 36 Main St.

The grounds of the Woodman Institute were quieter Sunday as Union soldiers, craftsmen and political figures settled back into their "normal" lives after the previous day's excitement of President Abraham Lincoln's return visit to Dover.

The already historic grounds at the Woodman Institute Museum took on a decisively 19th century feel on Saturday when modern-day history buffs adopted the roles of Civil War-era soldiers, hospital stewards and politicians in celebration of the 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's 1860 visit to the Garrison City.

The New Hampshire Attorney General's office says the shooting death of a 25-year-old woman in Acworth, N.H., in 2007, considered a possible suicide at the time, actually is a homicide.

Abraham Lincoln's return visit to the Garrison City on Saturday nearly 150 years after he visited Dover in 1860 is generating almost as much excitement as it did then.

Thanks to working, hard-wired smoke detectors, a family of four and their cat escaped an early morning fire Friday at their home at 159 Pigeon Hill Road in Union.