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GT Solar International paid its top five executives a total of $14.6 million in compensation in fiscal year 2011 -- a nearly 40 percent increase, despite a decrease in pay to its chief executive -- according to a proxy statement…

When it comes to states in which power plants are the leading sources of toxic air pollution, New Hampshire is 19th worst in the nation, according to a new report that analyzed data from the Environmental Protection Agency.But once the…

Following a long struggle to keep its head above water, Borders, the nation's second-largest bookstore chain, will liquidate and shutter its nearly 400 remaining bookstores, including all three full-size stores and two express stores in New Hampshire.After being unable to…

USA Springs is on its way to completing its controversial water bottling plant in Nottingham -- all it needs is approval of a reorganization plan by the Bankruptcy Court in Manchester.Under the plan, the company -- which will remain under…

The holding company of Lake Sunapee Bank now has more than a billion dollars in the bank, so to speak.Newport-based New Hampshire Thrift Bancshares Inc.'s total assets increased 3.6 percent to $1 billion in the quarter ending June 20, the…

Alltex Uniform Rental Service Inc., a Manchester-based industrial laundry service, and its parent company, G&K Services, will pay a $65,000 penalty to settle charges of emitting pollutants without a proper permit.In addition, the company has agreed to undertake a "supplemental…

Al and Susan McIlvene, the outspoken leaders of the group of victims of the Financial Resource Mortgages Inc. Ponzi scheme, have settled their own legal differences with the trustee to the bankruptcy estate, but they say they are still continuing…

Over the last decade, New Hampshire lost a higher percentage of blue-collar jobs from its total workforce than any other state in the country, according to a report by an online business journal.New Hampshire's blue-collar workforce fell nearly 8 percent…

Kedar Gupta, co-founder and former CEO of GT Solar International, charges in a countersuit filed last week in Nashua that he was told he faces being "hanged or crushed" in a nasty legal battle developing between his former firm and…