04/10/07 - DURHAM - Adam Bungert of Alton said he didn't mind standing out in the bitter cold in front of Thompson Hall at the University of New Hampshire all day Monday to protest abortion in the United States.

04/10/07 - PORTSMOUTH - For removing a roadside sign he viewed as "blight," Stratham resident John Decker was sentenced Monday with a suspended fine, an order for restitution and a mandate to remain on good behavior for two years.

04/10/07 - PORTSMOUTH - A local teen who served jail time for selling cocaine from his mother's basement pleaded guilty Monday to an unrelated charge of being a minor transporting alcohol.

04/10/07 - GREENLAND - One resident involved in a dispute over a large commercial truck parked on his street learned that if a special town meeting to consider a new truck ordinance is going to happen, it won't being called by him or his neighbor.

04/10/07 - PORTSMOUTH - At a time when new development has the cityscape in a constant state of flux, some things - like the Griffin "farm" at 479 Richards Ave. - never change.

04/10/07 - HAMPSTEAD - A U.S. Army Ranger who was the son of Hampstead Middle School's principal was killed by a roadside bomb while serving in Iraq.

04/10/07 - RYE - Opposition is lining up over a proposed retirement community on South Road.

04/10/07 - NEW CASTLE - Foreign language teacher Cheryl Berman has been honored not once, but twice this year.

04/10/07 - CONCORD - The House voted 253-37 last week to pass a renewable energy bill to encourage construction of more wood-fired power plants like the new 50-megawatt facility at Schiller Station in Portsmouth and several projects recently announced in the North Country. One megawatt can light and heat roughly 1,000 homes.

04/10/07 - CONCORD - The state's two natural gas-fired power plants built in the last five years have recently been for sale, according to Power Finance and Risk Magazine. It reported Nov. 6 that the 720-megawatt Granite Ridge facility in Londonderry was on the block, and issued similar news March 9 about the 525-megawatt Newington Energy plant owned by Consolidated Edison Development on the Seacoast.

04/10/07 - MANCHESTER - Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center wants to move its crowded Manchester cancer clinic to Catholic Medical Center, which will complete construction on a new office building later this year.

04/10/07 - KITTERY, Maine - Deirdre McEachern said every time she walks on Route 103, she feels as though she's taking her life in her hands.

04/10/07 - AUGUSTA, Maine - Maine House Speaker Glenn Cummings wants every high school student to fill out a college application in order to graduate.

04/10/07 - M. (for Mary) Marguerite Mathews arrived in Portsmouth in 1970 with hopes of being part of a new theater company. It didn't happen. At least not then. Today, she and her artistic partner, Greg Gathers, are at the helm of Pontine Movement Theatre, one of the community's oldest theater companies, which hits 30 next year. And, as far as Mathews is concerned, there will be few more major milestone in the company's future.

04/10/07 - From our readers: KISSES to the good Samaritan at Kohl's last week who found and turned in my young son's Spider-Man wallet that was full of his Christmas and birthday money.

04/10/07 - The following people passed away recently. . .

04/10/07 - Area police made the following arrests and conducted the following business recently...

04/10/07 - PORTSMOUTH - After several years of missing the Class L tournament, the Portsmouth High School girls tennis team turned the corner last year with an 8-4 record and a spot in the postseason in its last year in Class L.

04/10/07 - In 2005, the St. Thomas Aquinas High School boys lacrosse team made it to the Division II championship game, only to suffer a last-second 7-6 decision to Dover.

04/10/07 - DURHAM - Nanotechnology is still a new enough science that its entrance into daily life seems to be a distant rumor. As the potential for exciting applications and frightening threats emerge alongside the technology, the University of New Hampshire reached out last week to the state's educators.

04/10/07 - CONCORD - New Hampshire is on the verge of taking the first step toward reinstituting a research and development tax credit.

04/10/07 - SALISBURY, Mass. - Police serving a drug warrant at a home found a cache of "military-type" ammunition and explosives inside, authorities said.

04/10/07 - BOSTON - An agent for the U.S. Commerce Department who deliberately struck a man on a motorcycle with his government-issued car in what police called a case of road rage then fled the scene has been sentenced to two years in jail.

04/10/07 - Tens of thousands of followers of the anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr staged a peaceful rally Monday in one of Iraq's holiest cities.

04/10/07 - NEW YORK - CBS Radio and MSNBC both said Monday they were suspending Don Imus' morning talk show for two weeks as a protest grew about his reference last week to members of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."

03/05/07 - HETEREN, Netherlands -- A dozen middle-age and elderly men were game enough for a Dutch gym's invitation to work out nude. But they were vastly outnumbered by the dozens of journalists watching them lift, row and cycle in the buff.

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