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MANCHESTER - The defense's claim of inflammatory publicity is rejected by the judge.
LONDONDERRY - Antonio Roman Garcia-Mercado, 25, of Manchester is now in federal custody.
The Magic Mile in Loudon has been good to the Jersey guy.
NHMS This Week
Thursday, 3 p.m.: Heluva Good Summer 125 Qualifying
Thursday, 4:15-6 p.m.: New England 100 Qualifying
Friday, 3:10 p.m.: Heluva Good Pole Day
Friday, 5:10 p.m.: Heluva Good Summer 125
Saturday, 1 p.m.: New England 100
Saturday, 3 p.m.: Camping World RV Sales 200
Sunday, 2 p.m.: Lenox Industrial Tools 301
NASCAR driver David Ragan, left, shakes hands with Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester before last night's game. (DAVID LANE)
BOSTON - Yesterday an effort was made to bridge the worlds of baseball and auto racing during Roush Fenway Racing Day at Fenway Park.
►Wake outduels Johnson, Sox win
►Schilling hasn't ruled out return to Sox
►Ortiz says he is still weeks away from return
Graduating classes from Manchester West, Manchester Memorial and Manchester Central High Schools celebrated their commencements at Verizon Wireless Arena from June 17-19, 2008.
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A look at the Currier Museum of Art, which has reopened after two years of renovations.
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LONDONDERRY - Updated, 10:30 p.m. Some Londonderry High School band members got stuck in a McDonald's following flash flooding in the Chinese city of Chengde.
►YouTube: Watch the Londonderry High band react to the flood as it happened.
Updated, 12:16 p.m. A driverless pickup truck at a local garage, rolled across the street this morning, struck a garbage shed, continued down a sloped driveway and then crashed into an apartment building.
Washington, D.C. - Updated, 11:05 a.m. The Supreme Court says Americans have a right to own guns for self-defense and hunting. The 5-4 ruling strikes down the District of Columbia's 32-year-old ban on handguns as incompatible with gun rights under the Second Amendment. Justice David Souter of New Hampshire dissented.
Updated, 12:57 p.m. An employee of Casella Waste Systems suffered a serious head injury yesterday when a barrel he was welding exploded, according to police.
ROXBURY - Updated, 7:28 a.m. A heat lamp warming newborn chicks caused a fire this morning that destroyed a two-story barn and killed the hatchlings, other chickens and a cat, according to a fire official.
A Concord man has been charged with assaulting the man trying to tow his car from a no-parking zone; the driver was hospitalized.
CONCORD - Limits of 45 mph by day and 25 mph by night will take effect Jan. 1, on a two-year trial basis.
Municipalities large and small are looking for new methods to make fuel last.
Manchester - Michelle Obama today called for equal pay for women and for more after school programs throughout the nation and said her husband will be a champion for women's issues.
NORTH HAMPTON - A North Hampton ZBA member and Vietnam veteran believes a change in the rules forcing people to stand may create a hostile atmosphere for some.
CONCORD - The state's 10-year highway plan became law yesterday, but already there are concerns that a cut in federal funds will slow its construction.
MANCHESTER - Some 35 teacher positions face attrition, West High academies go unfunded and high school bus fees will rise $1 a week.
MANCHESTER - Business leaders focus on the top concerns local business leaders identified yesterday at a conference on issues facing New Hampshire companies.
A COMPROMISE MEASURE for a surveillance program designed to intercept foreign terrorist communications passed the House by a nearly 3-1 margin (293-129). Nonetheless, New Hampshire's representatives both voted against it.
THE PHRASE has come to cover all "conservative supporters" of the Democratic presidential candidate. Looming on the horizon are two big potential Obamacons: Colin Powell and Chuck Hagel.
THE RECENT COMPROMISE legislation -- which the House passed -- is a strong bill in many ways. However, the legislation also contains a fatal flaw.
TWO-THIRDS of doctoral candidates in science and engineering in U.S. universities are foreign-born. But only 140,000 employment-based green cards are available annually, and 1 million educated professionals are waiting -- often five or more years ---for cards.
From Bradford's restoration of a century-old stage backdrop to the NH Historical Society's displays, the past takes center stage in the present. In NH Weekend
NEWS IN PRINT
►Also in NH Weekend: Wood Days; Manchester's Seasonal Trolley Tour; Lincoln's Papermill Theater kicks off the season
► New moms step outside 9-to-5 box
SPORTS IN PRINT
►Trackside: Short-track treats on a NASCAR weekend
►Phantoms at home tonight
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