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Confronted by a "shrinking" newspaper industry, the Concord Monitor, a much-lauded daily newspaper in the NH state capital that garnered a Pulitzer Prize in 2008, has announced it is putting its 25-year-old building up for sale and relocating its news and advertising departments, and its printing press, to
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A Democratic Party state lawmaker in Illinois has introduced legislation that requires people aiming to purchase a gun to first submit their social media accounts to authorities. The goal, the lawmaker says, is to keep the citizenry safe from potential gun owners who may be mentally ill and/or violent
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Arizona Republican state Rep. Michelle Udall has introduced a non-binding bill to the Arizona legislature that would declare pornography a "public health crisis." The bill is based on language derived from so-called "model legislation" drafted by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation. According to AZCENTRAL, the
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A team of scientists led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has looked to Africa's leopard turtle to create a potentially revolutionary oral "pill" that delivers insulin through the stomach lining of patients suffering from Type-2 diabetes. People afflicted with that form of diabetes usually require
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In a 3-2 decision, the New Hampshire Supreme Court has ruled constitutional a Laconia city law banning women from exposing their breasts in public. The 29-page ruling comes after 3 appellants, Heidi Lilley of Gilford, Kia Sinclair of Danbury and Ginger Pierro of Canaan, sought the court's relief
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Lawyers representing students from Rice Memorial High School in South Burlington, VT have filed a lawsuit in federal court claiming the state has discriminated against their clients on religious grounds, the Burlington Free Press reports. Attorneys from Alliance Defending Freedom, a litigating advocacy group that has had success in high-profile
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The right to keep and bear arms in the New Hampshire House has been limited a bit after the Democrat-controlled legislature recently passed Rule 63. That rule now bans legislators, and anyone else except active police and security personnel, from carrying "deadly weapons" such as hand guns in
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A 20-year-old Bangor woman faces felony charges after she passed methamphetamine through her breast milk to her 7-month-old baby. According to an Associated Press report in the Portland Press Herald, police officers "responded to a hospital Dec. 16 after the baby was reported unconscious after ingesting the drug."