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NH’s Only Pulitzer Prize-Winning Newspaper Selling Building, Land, For Smaller Digs

Bill Gnade

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 a smaller space closer to the city.

The Monitor, the flagship paper of Newspapers of New England, Inc., said the 70,000-square-foot building will be listed, along with approximately 103 acres in its corporate park on 1 Monitor Drive in East Concord, for $6.5 million.

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Rhode Island Governor Wants To Ban ‘Assault’ Rifles, Pistols

John Cronin

Rhode Island's governor and attorney general are supporting a bill that would ban what it calls "assault weapons," including certain semiautomatic rifles and pistols.

The bill would prohibit semiautomatic rifles that have "a fixed magazine capacity exceeding 10 rounds" or that can accept a detachable magazine and have at least one of several features, including "a pistol grip that protrudes conspicuously beneath the action of the weapon."

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