All the headlines from our New Hampshire Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2011 // A year after New Hampshire established permanent speed limits on its largest lake, lawmakers are considering repealing them. The Senate is considering a bill that replaces a daytime speed limit on Lake Winnipesaukee of 45...
Jan 27 2011 // A federal agency is fining a New Hampshire paper company for intentional safety violations in the death of a 34-year-old worker who was pulled through a paper rolling machine.The Occupational Safety and Health...
Dec 14 2010 // State regulators said an electric utility acted appropriately when it shut off power to a woman who didn’t pay her power bill and died after an oxygen machine she needed stopped working.The state Public Utilities...
Dec 7 2010 // The flight school at New Hampshire’s Lebanon Municipal Airport has disbanded.Greg Soho of Signal Aviation, which ran the school, says the decision to drop the program had nothing to do with demand for flight lessons....
Dec 5 2010 // You play golf, you assume risks. So says New Hampshire’s Supreme Court. The state’s highest court has upheld dismissal of a negligence lawsuit brought by an injured golfer against Candia Woods Golf Links. Paul...
Nov 30 2010 // A former New Hampshire firefighter is going to prison for at least three years after pleading guilty to setting a series of fires.Forty-four-year-old Stark Liedtke of Alton had pleaded guilty to three charges that he set...
Nov 29 2010 // You play golf, you assume risks. So says New Hampshire’s Supreme Court.The state’s highest court has upheld dismissal of a negligence lawsuit brought by an injured golfer against Candia Woods Golf Links. Paul...
Nov 2 2010 // A preliminary state report says New Hampshire’s Local Government Center may have violated the law by reorganizing improperly and by failing to return surplus money from its insurance programs to communities. Center...
Oct 12 2010 // Authorities say eight fires in 16 hours in Manchester, New Hampshire were arson.Fire officials say they started Saturday afternoon and ended Sunday. No injuries or serious damage have been reported. District Fire Chief...
Sep 28 2010 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Hampshire (PIANH) has elected Lisa Nolan as president.She is senior executive vice president of the Watson Insurance Agency in Manchester, New Hampshire, and served as the...
Sep 27 2010 // Senate members of the legislative rules committee have objected to rule changes for the malpractice insurance fund proposed by the New Hampshire insurance commissioner.The joint legislative committee on Friday raised...
Sep 20 2010 // A federal jury in New Hampshire has awarded $21 million to a woman blinded and scarred by a prescription drug she took for shoulder pain.Karen Bartlett, 51, of Plaistow suffered extreme burns to her skin, mucus membranes...
Sep 13 2010 // A federal jury in New Hampshire has awarded $21 million to a woman blinded and scarred by a prescription drug she took for shoulder pain.Karen Bartlett, 51, of Plaistow suffered extreme burns to her skin, mucus membranes...
Sep 7 2010 // A New Hampshire woman is seeking more than $24 million in damages from the maker of a prescription drug she took to ease shoulder pain, but suffered a reaction so severe that she is now blind and scarred by internal and...
Aug 25 2010 // The Association Members Workers’ Compensation Trust said it will pay dividends totaling $245,000 to New Hampshire businesses that participated in the program between 2004 to 2006.The dividends, a portion of which...
Aug 17 2010 // Six months after a massive fire destroyed a block of businesses at New Hampshire’s Hampton Beach, investigators still can’t say what caused it.Hampton Fire Chief Chris Silver tells the Portsmouth Herald five...
Jul 27 2010 // The Hanover has appointed Michael H. Lee as branch vice president for Commercial Lines for the company’s New Hampshire and Vermont markets.In this new role, Lee will lead the company’s efforts to strengthen its...
Jul 19 2010 // Surplus lines taxes in New Hampshire have gone up 50 percent, as a law change passed earlier this year went into effect this month.The tax rate now stands at 3 percent of premiums, up from 2 percent. Originally, lawmakers...
Jul 13 2010 // Surplus lines taxes in New Hampshire have gone up 50 percent, as a law change earlier this year went into effect this month.The tax rate now stands at 3 percent of premiums, up from 2 percent. Originally, lawmakers had...
Jun 3 2010 // A jury says the New Hampshire Transportation Department was not responsible for a 2007 Interstate 93 crash that killed a 6-year-old boy.A jury in Rockingham Superior Court returned the verdict following a civil trial. A...