New Hampshire

On Election Day, a young lieutenant in the Strafford County Sheriff’s Office made history, becoming the first Black person ever elected sheriff in New Hampshire. “I’m so excited, I really am,” said Lt. Mark Brave. “That says that New Hampshire is open to progress, they’re open to new ideas.” The 35-year-old Dover resident ran on a platform of transparency,...

Two tiny New Hampshire communities that vote for president just after the stroke of midnight on Election Day have cast their ballots, with one of them marking 60 years since the tradition began

The pickup truck driver charged with causing the deaths of seven motorcyclists in New Hampshire last year told authorities he had drug problems, regularly used heroin and cocaine but believed he was not impaired at the time of the crash. The admission by Volodymyr Zhukovskyy was included in a trove of documents released Wednesday by federal investigators related to the…

More than 21 million voters across the U.S. have already cast ballots in person amid record-breaking early turnout

A white nationalist who rose to prominence during a deadly 2017 rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, went on trial Tuesday on federal charges of threatening to rape the wife of a person with whom he was having a dispute. Christopher Cantwell, a New Hampshire resident, has remained in federal custody since he pleaded not guilty in January to using the Telegram…

A 16-year-old from New Hampshire successfully swam across the English Channel, completing a 33-mile-swim by reaching a sandy shore in France after darkness fell

Fresh off accepting the Republican Party’s nomination, President Donald Trump says he is the only thing standing between “democracy and the mob,” as he lashes out at protesters who accosted his supporters as they left the White House the night before

Get to know the owners of Luella’s Southern Kitchen in Chicago, L.A. Dogworks in Los Angeles and the Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, N.H., as they tell us about their struggles during COVID-19 and how they have been working hard to stay afloat.

Near the close of the Democratic National Convention, before Joe Biden accepted his party’s nomination in the presidential race, came a moment that transcended politics and touched the hearts of a nation. Stuttering has been something 13-year-old Brayden Harrington of Boscawen, New Hampshire, has dealt with his entire life. It’s also something Biden has worked hard to overcome. “I’m...

New Hampshire’s governor said New Yorkers are pouring into the state due to high taxes and fear for their safety amid the COVID-19 crisis.

A former college student from Texas who posed as a film producer has been sentenced in New Hampshire to more than a year in jail for defrauding several foreign citizens living in the United States. Shiva Chandan Reddy Thudi, 26, of Irving, Texas, was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison for wire fraud, United States Attorney…

Well before the call was made to postpone President Donald Trump’s Saturday re-election rally in New Hampshire, the warning lights were flashing red. There were no signs of the typical throngs of supporters camped out days in advance for a good spot; the Republican governor said he would skip it, advising anyone at high risk to stay home over coronavirus concerns;...

President Donald Trump’s rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on Saturday night has been postponed by a week or two, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters on Air Force One. The postponement comes with Tropical Storm Fay heading for New England Friday and Saturday. McEnany cited the “big storm” when she announced that the rally would be delayed....

President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold an outdoor rally in Portsmouth, New Hampshire later this week, his campaign announced Sunday.

The small New Hampshire town of Bradford is now at the center of the Jeffrey Epstein case.

A state legislator in New Hampshire resigned Saturday after he posted a tweet that dismissed sexual assault allegations against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden as unlikely because of the way women’s bodies are constructed. Rep. Richard Komi, a Manchester Democrat, tweeted that a woman’s anatomy would make it difficult to digitally penetrate her without “some cooperation from the female...

A second person is presumed to have the new coronavirus in New Hampshire, state health officials said Tuesday. They also said the first coronavirus patient “attended an invitation-only private event on Friday” despite being told to stay isolated.

Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 — either as a Republican or an independent — if no one else does. “It has not been in my plans to run for president, but...

Authorities say about 50 animals living in overcrowded, filthy conditions have been rescued in New Hampshire and have been relocated to the Society for the Protection of Cruelty to Animals in Stratham following an animal cruelty complaint.

A dog that was ordered to be euthanized despite a pardon issued by Maine’s governor could get a second chance at life as a sled dog.