New Hampshire women are applauding a new study showing single women in their 20s without kids are outpacing their male counterparts when it comes to bringing home a bigger paycheck.

LONDONDERRY - Neighborhoods, town center, parks and shops part of massive Londonderry plan; Forums on it will be held soon.

On the eve of the Labor Day holiday, carpenters, brick layers, welders and electricians are all struggling as pay and benefits have plummeted in the recession, and some openly wonder if conditions will deter Granite State young people from working in the trades.

Some question the practice of legislators presiding over committees where conflicts could emerge. For more on this story, pick up a copy of today's print edition of the New Hampshire Sunday News, on newsstands today. Or check out our e-Edition.

Stephen spokesman's work has been on a volunteer basis; GOP wants to know about Lynch campaign manager's consulting fees.

The twice-a-year event, which has honored the city’s elder residents for more than two decades, has been running at a loss since 2006, according to the Finance Office. Last year the two events were $3,700 over budget and in 2009, they lost more than $7,000.

PORTSMOUTH - Two active-duty U.S. Navy personnel were stabbed multiple times early yesterday during a fight with two other men.

If the Yankees decide he needs a rehab start, the timing could be right for one of the opening games of the division series at Trenton.

The state's two major racing venues will each prepare to bring in major tours -- IndyCars to Loudon and NHRA to Epping -- in 2011.

SALEM - Paced by the five-touchdown effort of Mike Kelly, BG yesterday thumped defending Division I king Salem, 48-21, in non-league action at Grant Field.

Say this for Bill Binnie. When he gets caught in a lie, he doesn't shy from it. He turns it into an even bigger whopper.

If immigration officers and attorneys themselves have no confidence in the administration's handling of illegal aliens, why should the rest of us?

No one wants to be digging through three feet of snow to get to a woodpile, and my policy is to be able to reach any in-house wood I need in my slippers.

MANCHESTER - A man with a semi-automatic handgun robbed a south end market Saturday night.

NEW CASTLE - Two future Solheim Cup captains win a pair of matches each as Americans go up, 16-8.

New Hampshire women are applauding a new study showing single women in their 20s without kids are outpacing their male counterparts when it comes to bringing home a bigger paycheck.

Read all about it in tomorrow's New Hampshire Sunday News.

The staunchly rational New York Times right-of-center columnist David Brooks asked readers this week how the nation-building reconstruction project in Iraq is working out. Remarkably well, you’ll be pleased to learn.

MANCHESTER - A fast-moving fire consumed the rear of an apartment building on the West Side late last night, driving residents as well as amazed onlookers onto the street.

All four floors of the rear of 346 S. Main St. were engulfed in flames by 11 p.m., as firefighters set up ladder trucks. Neighbors said at least five apartments are in the building. A dentist office is in the first-floor front of the building.

MANCHESTER - Some 24 hours after police killed a gunman who had taken hostages in her workplace, Melissa Shepard was again on New Hampshire soil, ready to relax and forget an ordeal that had her scampering to safety through offices and stairwells.

PAKTIKA PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Recent heavy rains in Paktika province left a wake of death and destruction. Soldiers of 3rd Platoon and Headquarters Platoon, Company C, 3rd Battalion, 172nd Infantry (Mountain), 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team quickly mobilized to answer a call for help.