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Study: Poor skills cause customers to miss bargains
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Poor math skills are leading to bad shopping decisions, according to a recent study by the University of Miami School of Business. Researchers examined attitudes about...
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Gas pumps losing their pollution-controlling cuffs because gas tanks do the job
Those rubber cuffs on gas-pump nozzles that keep fumes from leaking out of your gas tank are starting to disappear, thanks to a change in technology that is making the pollution control no longer...
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Nashua Board of Education finalizes request to aldermen for contingency funds
NASHUA – The Board of Education hopes to use an $85,000 contingency fund set aside by the Board of Aldermen to hire an additional elementary school teacher, pay a portion of expenses for transporting...
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Sox fire pitching coach
BOSTON – The slumping Boston Red Sox will have a new pitching coach for the remainder of their tumultuous first season under manager Bobby Valentine. Bob McClure was fired Monday and replaced by Randy...
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Rains raise river levels, but bacteria counts stay good
The rains have changed everything on the Souhegan and Merrimack Rivers. For a month, these rivers were flowing at half their normal rate; last week, they were flowing at twice their normal rate. For a...
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Group seeks $2.5m to stop pass project
CONCORD – A conservation group working to block a 180-mile electrical project from Canada into southern New Hampshire announced Monday it is seeking to raise $2.5 million to pay for conservation...
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Community aids girl who lost prosthetic eye
LACONIA (AP) – A 10-year-old girl who lost her prosthetic eye while swimming will soon have a new one thanks to an outpouring of community support. Jennifer Miller was 3 when she lost her eye to a...
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As always, no reading Belichick’s mind
Let’s play a game called “What’s he thinking?” In other words, let’s try to read the mind of New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick. It’s virtually impossible to do, but when you watch the...
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Clemens returning to baseball – in Atlantic League
HOUSTON (AP) – Roger Clemens isn’t done with baseball quite yet. The 50-year-old Clemens signed with the Sugar Land (Texas) Skeeters of the independent Atlantic League on Monday and he is expected to...
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Kelly Ayotte to host town hall meeting Thursday in Merrimack
MERRIMACK – U.S. Sen. Kelly Ayotte, on break from Washington, D.C., will be in Merrimack twice this week. First, the Nashua native and Republican will visit Nanocamp Technologies on Wednesday morning,...
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New head of BAE New Hampshire operations has local connections
NASHUA – The new president of BAE Systems New Hampshire operations, Dan Gobel, spent years in the area overseeing a variety of contracts here. BAE Systems’ Electronic Systems division, which is...
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Milford woman pleads no content to stealing from PTO, fined $1,000
MILFORD – The former vice president of the Milford Middle School PTO pleaded no contest Monday to a single count of misdemeanor theft involving PTO funds and was handed a $1,000 fine and ordered to pay...
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Boyfriend of Lorinda White says family doesn’t want him at the funeral
MILFORD – William Pillsbury, boyfriend of the late Lorinda White, says he has been asked by a member of White’s family not to attend her memorial service Wednesday. The service for the 51-year-old...
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St. Joseph CEO resigns to deal with family medical problems
NASHUA – The chief executive officer of St. Joseph Hospital has resigned abruptly and is returning to his home in Missouri to deal with family medical problems. David Ross, who was hired in May 2010 to...
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Nashua named 93rd best place to live by CNN Money Magazine
NASHUA – It’s not No. 1, but Nashua is still at the top of the heap. On Monday, CNN Money Magazine released its top 100 “Best Places to Live” in America for 2012, ranking Nashua as 93rd. Nashua was the...
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Nashua bomb squad responds to Hudson home for report of World War I ordnance
Hudson police called in the Nashua police bomb squad Monday morning after a woman found World War I-era ordnance in her grandparents’ old home. The bomb squad, and its attendant robot, were called to...
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In first New Hampshire appearance together, Romney, Ryan go after Obama’s record
GOFFSTOWN – Republicans Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan brought their new-found partnership to New Hampshire on Monday, vowing to jump-start the economy by tossing President Barack Obama out of office for a...
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Belichick looking for big returns
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – For the New England Patriots, it hasn’t been a case of many happy kickoff returns. Perhaps that’s where newly signed Olympic Silver Medalist Jeff Demps will fit in. Demps is...
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Eagles top Patriots in a battle of backups
By TOM KING Staff Writer FOXBOROUGH, Mass. - Welcome to the fourth week of the preseason in Week Two. Staring at a stretch of three games in 10 days, that's apparently how the New England Patriots...
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Meredith woman killed in Sandwich rollover accident
SANDWICH (AP) - A Meredith woman has died after she and her passenger were thrown from her sport utility vehicle on Route 25 in Sandwich. State police say 45-year-old Sherri Lewis was going west on...
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