HAMPTON — Owners of the Hampton Cinema Six on Lafayette Road said they will close the theater by the end of the year after 25 years in business.

KITTERY, Maine — The Maine Marine Patrol was forced to call off its dive team search for Christopher Tobey, a lobsterman who is presumed to have drowned off the Isles of Shoals, because of rough sea conditions.

GREENLAND — Kids at Greenland Central School were wind surfing on the lawn, taking yoga classes, learning about milk, eating nutritious food at the pyramid café and baking bread.

CONCORD — New Hampshire's Senate is backing a 10-state regional effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions.

BRENTWOOD (AP) — Jurors deciding whether Sheila LaBarre was insane when she killed two of her boyfriends listened to more audio tapes Thursday in which she berated and interrogates her victims.

WASHINGTON — With veto-proof margins, Congress on Thursday sent President Bush a bill boosting farm subsidies and money for food stamps to help the poor deal with rising grocery prices.

CONCORD (AP) — The New Hampshire Senate has rejected allowing video lottery machines at the state's four race tracks, but voted to tax Texas Hold 'Em poker games.

RYE — Area residents are invited to join Lighthouse Kids for the second annual walkathon to preserve White Island Lighthouse Station.

NEW CASTLE — The recount for a tight selectman's race is now tentatively planned for Thursday afternoon.

KITTERY, Maine — Efforts are continuing in the American Lighthouse Foundation's bid to take ownership of Whaleback Ledge Lighthouse.

PORTSMOUTH — A Rockingham Country grand jury indicted the following people arrested by local police, moving their cases to Superior Court trials:

HAMPTON — State Rep. Tom McGuirk, D-Hampton, is getting a lot of flack for his number of missed votes in Concord. The flack is not just coming from Republicans, but rather from his fellow Democrats in town.

GREENLAND — A $5,000 grant to New Generation Inc., from the Women's Fund of New Hampshire will be used to support the salary of its executive director.

RYE — This year's Writers in the Round Retreat on Star, hosted by Deidre Randall, will take place from Sept. 4 to 7.

Despite the defeat of a educational funding constitutional amendment Wednesday, there's no mystery about what happens next in the debate over how to fund and how much to fund education.

ELIOT, Maine — The Board of Selectmen has approved the terms of a York County Superior Court ordered settlement, ending a 20-year dispute with an Eliot landowner on Spruce Lane whom residents say was blocking the road, harassing them and until...

KITTERY, Maine — Six defendants were indicted last month in York County Superior Court, all from cases arising out of the town Police Department.

BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Marine biologists tracking red tide along Maine's coast fear it could be a bad season based on shellfish surveys and weather patterns.

PORTSMOUTH — The Planning Board approved three new parking spaces for Compass Care despite concerns over the building being gobbled up by the Portsmouth Middle School.

PORTSMOUTH — Police are investigating the latest in a string of catalytic converter thefts, this time at Portsmouth Ford, also the scene of recent truck tailgate thefts.

NEW CASTLE — Coast Guard Station Portsmouth Harbor will hold an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.

NORTH HAMPTON — Area residents are invited to join the Lighthouse Kids for the second annual Walkathon on Monday, May 19 to preserve White Island Lighthouse Station.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The driving record of a Wells woman charged with manslaughter and aggravated drunken driving in last month's wrong-way crash on the Maine Turnpike includes two past drunken driving convictions. Authorities say...

PORTSMOUTH — Harold Ecker moved to Banfield Road in 1956, and in the 52 years that followed he built a successful paving business and raised four children with his wife, Marilyn (Markey), meanwhile sponsoring a local women's softball team and...

PORTSMOUTH — A bill in the state Legislature to create a new management structure for the Division of Ports and Harbors was scuttled by a Senate amendment calling for further study.

YORK, Maine — The marching orders from the top echelon of the Maine Turnpike Authority are clear: Do everything possible to see if the York Toll Plaza can essentially stay where it is.

DURHAM — Don't raise our property taxes or establish an income or sales tax.

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — It's do or summertime for the Cleveland Cavaliers.

As we all know, it's been a Midas-like spring for the athletic teams at Portsmouth High School. The Clippers have shown an ability to turn just about any sporting event — baseball, softball, tennis or lacrosse — into a victory.

BOSTON — The Cleveland Cavaliers were willing to give up a big 3 by Rajon Rondo to avoid being beaten by the Big Three.

NEW YORK (AP) — Former New England assistant coach Brian Daboll told the NFL he doesn't remember speaking with Matt Walsh about the St. Louis Rams' walkthrough Walsh attended the day before the 2002 Super Bowl.

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The San Antonio Spurs' Big Three came through, but they'll still have to win one on the road to keep their title defense alive.

BALTIMORE — Trainer Rick Dutrow said his Big Brown is a "go-over" horse at Saturday's 133rd Preakness Stakes.

NHL: Flyers stay alive

PORTSMOUTH — The local fall-out from the demise of Skybus Airlines continues.

PORTSMOUTH — The Greater Portsmouth Chamber of Commerce will host a State of the City breakfast forum from 7:30 to 9 a.m. on Wednesday at the Sheraton Harborside Portsmouth Hotel. The 2009 budget, sustainable practices and new construction in...

PORTSMOUTH — Pease Development Authority executive director Dick Green addressed the New Hampshire chapter of the American Council for Engineering Companies earlier this month at the Sheraton Harborside Hotel in Portsmouth. It was the group's...

NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market notched its second straight daily advance, with investors assuaged by a pullback in oil prices and some better-than-expected economic data. Wall Street has been worried about cash-strapped consumers paring back...

NEWRY, Maine (AP) — Two of Maine's largest ski areas, Sunday River and Sugarloaf, joined other northern New England ski areas earlier this week in declaring the 2007-08 season a record breaker.

PORTSMOUTH — iCongo Inc., a leading developer of e-business systems and software, recently released the results of a consumer survey conducted by Harris Interactive that reveals how the rising price of gasoline is reflected in American...

Hampton

The defeat of the educational funding amendment Wednesday by the New Hampshire House was a disappointing exercise in political cowardice.