04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - Illinois Sen. and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama made it very clear to the 200-plus people who attended what he called, "A Community Meeting on Health Care," held at Seacoast Media Group's new headquarters at Pease on Tuesday, that the universal health care plan he wants to develop for the country has to have the backing of its citizens.

04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - Clif Horrigan wanted answers. The Portsmouth resident came to hear Illinois Sen. Barack Obama for her children, all of whom have faced unemployment, all of whom have been without health insurance.

04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - Barack Obama is finding out what it means to be an agnostic when the religion is health care.

04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - He's got a little cough, but a beagle puppy stolen from the Little Shop of Pets Friday morning has been otherwise returned soundly.

04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - A Dover driver dodged $825 in unpaid parking tickets Tuesday because the city's parking clerk failed to appear in court to prosecute him.

04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - Traffic will likely be the biggest problem with the HarborCorp hotel, conference center and parking garage proposal, which was tabled by the Technical Advisory Committee Tuesday.

04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - More than a hundred members of Temple Israel and their guests filled the North Church Parish House last night for the annual community seder.

04/04/07 - A Granite State Poll, sponsored by CNN and WMUR-TV, was conducted between March 27 and April 2. For the Democratic candidates, 339 voters who say they are likely to vote in the Democratic primary in New Hampshire were asked their preference to win the Democratic nomination. The margin of sampling error was plus or minus 5 points.

04/04/07 - NEW CASTLE - "If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere."

04/04/07 - ARLINGTON, Mass. - A group of singers will pay tribute in concerts to Brad Delp, the lead singer of Boston who died by suicide in his New Hampshire home last month.

04/04/07 - LITCHIELD - Charges have been dropped against a Litchfield police lieutenant in a domestic assault and animal cruelty case.

04/04/07 - SOMERSWORTH - A Somersworth priest who was seriously burned in a fire at his rectory two months ago has returned to the city, in time to help celebrate Easter festivities.

04/04/07 - DURHAM - A team of scientists at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth College has won a federal Energy Department grant to establish a new center for space research.

04/04/07 - CONCORD - New Hampshire's finances did well last month.

04/04/07 - YORK, Maine - After months of waiting, York High School senior Jason Durkin, who was diagnosed with aplastic anemia in December, received a bone marrow transplant Friday.

04/04/07 - KITTERY, Maine - The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard plans to beef up security and wants more authority in dealing with suspicious activities in the waters surrounding the yard, but apparently will stop short of requiring the removal of Kittery docks and moorings to accomplish the goal.

04/04/07 - KITTERY, Maine - The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard plans to beef up security and wants more authority in dealing with suspicious activities in the waters surrounding the yard, but apparently will stop short of requiring the removal of Kittery docks and moorings to accomplish the goal.

04/04/07 - When David Ferri and his family sit down for their Passover meal on Monday, their Deerfield table will be set with all the accouterments needed to retell the 3,000-year-old story of the deliverance from bondage of the Israelites.

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

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04/04/07 - DURHAM - For those University of New Hampshire football fans worried that the departure of offensive coordinator Chip Kelly leaves an irreplaceable void in the brain trust, know this about his replacement: Sean Devine eats, breathes and sleeps the game.

04/04/07 - MANCHESTER - If the New Hampshire Fisher Cats wanted to personify their ragged 2006 season, starting pitcher Kyle Yates would be the face on the jersey.

04/04/07 - PORTSMOUTH - Steve Lawrence has spent most of his life in Aqua Paradise, surrounded by the pools and hot tubs that have been his livelihood. After all those years, he has some new awards to add to the wall of his Banfield Road showroom.

04/04/07 - CONCORD - Providing the Granite State's smaller businesses and employers with safety and health information is the goal of a new alliance among federal and state departments.

04/04/07 - ACTON, Mass. - A three-alarm fire moved quickly through an Acton home early Wednesday morning, killing two occupants, officials said.

04/04/07 - LITTLETON, Mass. - Commuters driving along Interstate 495 in Littleton on Wednesday morning were seeing red, and it wasn't just because of the heavy traffic.

04/04/07 - ABOARD TRAIN V150, France - A French train with a 25,000-horsepower engine and special wheels broke the world speed record Tuesday for conventional rail trains, reaching 357.2 mph as it zipped through the countryside to the applause of spectators.

04/04/07 - NAIROBI, Kenya - CIA and FBI agents hunting for al-Qaida militants in the Horn of Africa have been interrogating terrorism suspects from 19 countries held at secret prisons in Ethiopia, which is notorious for torture and abuse, according to an investigation by The Associated Press.

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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