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The state of New Hampshire may not only be moving toward privatizing its entire prison system, but it is also partially privatizing the process involved in making the decision.June 5 was the deadline for a private prison consulting firm to…

With all regulatory and shareholder approvals in hand, Norwich, N.Y.-based NBT Bank has completed its acquisition of Hampshire First Bank, the Manchester-based bank founded in 2006.NBT announced last November it would acquire Hampshire First, with $273 million in assets, in…

p>A U.S. bankruptcy judge has ordered Swiss financing firm Malom Group AG to hand over the $60 million it had promised to lend USA Springs, the bankrupt company that has sought for more than a decade to build a controversial…

Micronetics Inc., a Hudson-based defense subcontractor and one of the few small public companies still based in New Hampshire, will be acquired by the much larger Mercury Computer Systems Inc. of Chelmsford, Mass., for about $75.4 million, Mercury announced on…

Micronetics Inc. ended up its fiscal year with $3.4 million in net income -- 74 cents a diluted share -- more than doubling the net profits it earned in 2011 and continuing its comeback from a disastrous loss in 2009.The…

Lawmakers should take a careful look at the mess caused by loose laws governing mortgage transfers and foreclosures, says Kelley Monahan, Grafton County's register of deeds. And Monahan is going to give them an opportunity to do just that in…

New Hampshire's real gross domestic product growth kept pace with the national rate in 2011, although the state's rate of growth was almost two-thirds lower than a year earlier.New Hampshire's real GDP grew 1.5 percent in 2011, which was also…

The number of jobs in New Hampshire may be growing in fits and starts, but there is no doubt that the number of bankruptcy filings continues to shrink steadily.Some 343 households and business filed for bankruptcy in May, 19.5 percent…