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Hudson-based Presstek Inc. lost another $3.8 million (10 cents a diluted share) in its fourth quarter -- an improvement over the previous year's finish -- but still resulting in a $12.4 million annual loss (33 cents a share), a slightly…

Sturm Ruger & Co.'s top five executives earned compensation packages totaling $12.15 million in fiscal 2011, more than triple the amount they earned a year ago, according to the company's annual proxy.Michael O. Fifer , the company's CEO, got the…

A trading group of Constellation Energy, an independent power provider for business users in New Hampshire and other states, has agreed to pay nearly $250 million to settle charges of price manipulation. A fraction of that money could be claimed…

George Hagerty, the former president of Franklin Pierce University in Rindge, is suing his subsequent employer, St. John International University Inc. -- a school chartered in New Hampshire but located in Italy -- for not paying him as St. John's…

A Vermont-based law firm has opened a new office in Manchester and hired several attorneys from the now-shuttered Wiggin & Nourie law firm, including its president.Primmer Piper Eggleston & Cramer PC, which is headquartered in Burlington, Vt., already has had…

Research in Motion Ltd., the Canadian company famous for its BlackBerry smartphones, has purchased a Nashua-based firm that specializes in developing antennas for mobile phones.RIM announced the purchase last week of Paratek Microwave Inc., which designs and manufactures tunable radio-frequency…

Bostonpost Technologies, a Bedford firm that makes software for companies that manage affordable housing, will be shutting its doors in New Hampshire on March 23, resulting in most employees having to look for other work.MRI Software LLC bought Bostonpost from…

A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge last week granted USA Springs its sixth delay since Halloween on a supposed $60 million financing of its controversial water bottling plant at the border of Nottingham and Barrington.The deadline for the financing package is…

A federal bankruptcy court judge Thursday denied the state of New Hampshire's objection to the sale of Isaacson Structural Steel Inc. to several auctioneers, dismissing the state's hope that one of the low bidders might put together an offer to…

Foss Manufacturing, the Hampton-based manufacturer that emerged from bankruptcy in 2006, plans to add another 40 to 45 workers with the help of a $1.6 million refinancing deal using federal money via the New Hampshire Business Finance Authority and the…