Author: NH Business Review Staff

HUDSON – Southeastern Container employee Woody LaPointe liked what U.S. Sen. John Edwards had to say about education. The presidential candidate discussed his goals for education Tuesday, including funding federal mandates such as the No Child Left Behind Act, supporting…

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – In a verdict that could cost him his life, a stone-faced John Allen Muhammad was convicted Monday of using a high-powered rifle, a beat-up car and a teenage sidekick to murder people at random and terrorize…

Communicant of Our Lady of Mercy Church Pamela G. Wassung, 43, of 12 Woodward Road, Merrimack, died Monday, Nov. 17, 2003, at her home after a battle with breast cancer. Mrs. Wassung was born Nov. 17, 1960, in Holyoke, Mass.,…

Enjoyed basketball and football Ian Andrew Dowe, 37, of 99 Cluff Crossing, Salem, died Thursday, Nov. 13, 2003, at Holy Family Medical Center in Methuen, Mass., after a brief illness. Mr. Dowe was born Aug. 18, 1966, in Kingston, Jamaica,…

Enjoyed reading, crafts and traveling Jan (Rowe) Lombard Brewer, 52, of 30 Revere St., Nashua, died Sunday, Nov. 16, 2003, at the Community Hospice House in Merrimack after a lengthy illness. Mrs. Brewer was born Oct. 15, 1951, in Goffstown,…

NASHUA – It’s an appropriate message for the upcoming holiday season: Good things come in small packages. The impressive Colorado blue spruce trees that will sparkle with holiday lights downtown and at Greeley Park started as small seedlings in the…

NASHUA – The Greater Nashua Supervised Visitation Center tries to provide a safe haven for families in difficult situations. The center, which has been open for less than a year, is holding an open house today from 4:30-6:30 p.m. The…

WHAT: Open house at Greater Nashua Supervised Visitation Center. WHEN: Today from 4:30-6:30 p.m. WHERE: 15 Prospect St.

MILFORD – The superintendent of schools in three Manchester suburbs is likely to become the next superintendent in Milford, where he’ll oversee more grade levels and answering to fewer school board members. The Milford School Board unanimously voted Monday night…

LITCHFIELD – After hearing mixed reactions from residents, selectmen put a proposal to swap Town Hall for Griffin Memorial School on the back burner. The board unanimously decided Monday not to swap the building and 20-acre property with the school…

NASHUA – Last Wednesday, the wife and husband sat on separate benches in the aldermanic chamber. She was with her Board of Education colleagues, second row from the front. He sat behind them with an aldermen’s agenda in his lap.…

It seems that no filmmaker or actor can thrive nowadays without making the round of television talk shows. Nick DiRamio, for one, certainly understands that he can only promote his movie to his seventh-grade classmates so much. So the 12-year-old…

2:34 left in the half. However, Dallas’ Flozell Adams blocked Adam Vinatieri’s extra point attempt to hold the New England lead at 9-0. That was Adams’ second PAT block of the season, third of his career. The Cowboys looked like…

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2,680 career-rushing yards, Ladd is just 236 yards shy of Amherst’s career record of 2,916. Merrimack’s Christina Paradise and Amherst’s Bethany Morehouse are members of The College of Saint Rose women’s soccer team which qualified for its second straight NCAA…

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – You had the so-called coaching Battle of the Bills. And new silver jerseys for the home team. Good thing there was drama off the field at Gillette Stadium, because there certainly wasn’t a whole lot on it…

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. – You had the so-called coaching Battle of the Bills. And new silver jerseys for the home team. Good thing there was drama off the field at Gillette Stadium, because there certainly wasn’t a whole lot on it…

Campbell High’s run to a junior varsity football championship ended in a flash Saturday. John Stark wasted no time claiming the Independent League JV football title, scoring four, unanswered first-quarter touchdowns, in a 46-22 win over Campbell in Weare. The…

NEW ORLEANS – Democratic Lt. Gov. Kathleen Blanco became the first woman ever elected governor of Louisiana on Saturday, defeating a conservative Indian-American and scoring a rare gain for Democrats in an election season that has seen a string of…

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) – Brian Vickers became NASCAR’s youngest champion ever Saturday, claiming the Busch Series title with an 11th-place finish behind first-time winner Kasey Kahne at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 20-year-old Vickers regained a lost lap and finished 11th in…

EAST SWANZEY – When Milford’s Ben Fulham broke out of the pack and strode down to the Monadnock one-inch line on only the second play from scrimmage, the Spartans couldn’t believe it. A quick start? Really? Prior to Saturday’s 27-16…

EAST SWANZEY – It was a cold and windy day on a mud-ridden field at Monadnock High School on Saturday – perfect for an afternoon of smashmouth Milford football. The No. 4-seeded Spartans took to the Division IV championship field…

NASHUA – Kate Jackson is an elite athlete who competes in Ironman triathlons, events in which she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles and runs a marathon – all in one day. But a few weeks ago, the pain in…

NASHUA – Kim Shaw said credit for lowering the dropout rate belongs to the school district, not the city. Edwina Kwan complained that a section of a report on dropouts didn’t reflect everything that was discussed in her subcommittee. The…

NASHUA – A foundation that aims to re-establish the religious and cultural life of St. Francis Xavier Church has started a fund-raising drive to buy the closed building from the Diocese of Manchester. The St. Francis Xavier Church Foundation has…

MOSUL, Iraq – The Iraqi Governing Council endorsed a U.S. plan Saturday that would create a provisional government by June. Also Saturday, two Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed in Mosul, killing 17 American soldiers in the U.S. military’s worst…

Ed Rietman used to drive his wife crazy with his chronic road rage. It flared every morning when the Nashua physicist battled Route 3 traffic – sometimes for two hours – to get to his job in nearby Chelmsford. Nowadays,…

LOS ANGELES – Soul singer Luther Vandross, who is recovering from a debilitating stroke that threatened to end not only his career but his life, won a leading two American Music Awards on Sunday. The 52-year-old singer can speak and…

By KEVIN LANDRIGAN octors told Millie and Mark Duvault that their son Austin probably would die before he turned 3 due to a rare, infantile epileptic condition known as Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy Syndrome. Austin, now 10, is clinically blind, mute,…

KABUL, Afghanistan – One of two Afghan men on a motorcycle opened fire Sunday on a marked United Nations’ car, killing a French aid worker, the first international U.N. staff member slain in postwar Afghanistan. Police identified the captured assailants…

CHICAGO – Women with common, usually nonfatal forms of skin cancer face double the risk of having unrelated cancers, according to a large study, suggesting that the initial diagnosis may be more worrisome than previously thought. The skin cancer link…

A new study has found that a faulty sense of smell may predict precisely the risk of schizophrenia, months or years before obvious symptoms appear. Until now, doctors have had no reliable way to make an early diagnosis of the…

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Kennard Clark learned to his surprise that he has a stepbrother, and the guy’s running for president. The 71-year-old surgeon in Arlington, Texas, said his father disappeared shortly after Kennard graduated from high school in…

CLAYTON, Mo. – The nine Democrats vying for the presidential nomination make the case at every campaign stop that the United States needs fresh leadership. Millions of voters aren’t about to consider that. With a year to go until the…

AMES, Iowa – Howard Dean’s off-the-cuff straight talk helped propel him to the front of the Democratic presidential field. It’s a style he would not think of abandoning, but one that’s forcing him to be more careful with his words.…

DEAR KATE & DALE: What is your feeling on an e-mail follow-up note versus hard copy? I just had an interview with a “fast” sort of person, and he mentioned that he is interviewing all the candidates today, will further…

MADRID, Spain – A year ago, Letizia Ortiz stood on a beach, ankle-deep in black muck, reporting to the nation on an oil spill. Next summer, the TV anchorwoman will trade her microphone for the hand of Crown Prince Felipe,…

When Life reporter Robert Drew approached John F. Kennedy in 1960 about making a short documentary on his Wisconsin presidential primary run, he promised a new solution to an old problem: How does a reporter act as a fly on…

LOS ANGELES – Will Ferrell’s “Elf” scuttled Russell Crowe’s “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” to finish as the weekend’s No. 1 movie. “Elf,” about a man-child raised by Santa’s helpers at the North Pole, took in…

It seems that no filmmaker or actor can thrive nowadays without making the round of television talk shows. Nick DiRamio, for one, certainly understands that he can only promote his movie to his seventh-grade classmates so much. So the 12-year-old…

Ed Rietman used to drive his wife crazy with his chronic road rage. It flared every morning when the Nashua physicist battled Route 3 traffic – sometimes for two hours – to get to his job in nearby Chelmsford.Nowadays, Rietman…

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) – Brian Vickers became NASCAR’s youngest champion ever Saturday, claiming the Busch Series title with an 11th-place finish behind first-time winner Kasey Kahne at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The 20-year-old Vickers regained a lost lap and finished 11th in…

EAST SWANZEY – When Milford’s Ben Fulham broke out of the pack and strode down to the Monadnock one-inch line on only the second play from scrimmage, the Spartans couldn’t believe it. A quick start? Really? Prior to Saturday’s 27-16…

NASHUA – Kate Jackson is an elite athlete who competes in Ironman triathlons, events in which she swims 2.4 miles, bikes 112 miles and runs a marathon – all in one day. But a few weeks ago, the pain in…

NASHUA – Kim Shaw said credit for lowering the dropout rate belongs to the school district, not the city. Edwina Kwan complained that a section of a report on dropouts didn’t reflect everything that was discussed in her subcommittee. The…

NASHUA – A foundation that aims to re-establish the religious and cultural life of St. Francis Xavier Church has started a fund-raising drive to buy the closed building from the Diocese of Manchester. The St. Francis Xavier Church Foundation has…

By KEVIN LANDRIGAN octors told Millie and Mark Duvault that their son Austin probably would die before he turned 3 due to a rare, infantile epileptic condition known as Early Myoclonic Encephalopathy Syndrome. Austin, now 10, is clinically blind, mute,…

MOSUL, Iraq – The Iraqi Governing Council endorsed a U.S. plan Saturday that would create a provisional government by June. Also Saturday, two Black Hawk helicopters collided and crashed in Mosul, killing 17 American soldiers in the U.S. military’s worst…