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This year’s New Hampshire Film Expo will mark the return of the Film and Video Trade Show, highlighting New Hampshire production services, regional filmmakers and a number of pertinent workshops. “This is a nice opportunity to showcase some of the…

Financial services giant ING Group agreed Tuesday to pay New Hampshire state workers $2.775 million as part of a settlement with the state Hampshire Bureau of Securities Regulation. The settlement also requires ING - which handles $180 million in state…

The class action suit against StockerYale can continue, a federal court judge ruled last week. Steven McAuliffe, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Concord, threw out the Salem company’s effort to dismiss the case on Sept. 29, clearing…

Predatory mortgage lending is prevalent in rural areas, according to a new policy brief from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire. The report, “Subprime and Predatory Lending in Rural America: Mortgage Lending Practices that Can Trap Low-Income…

Creditors trying to attach the New Hampshire financial assets of the former chief executive of Foss Manufacturing may have come up empty. Stephen Foss, accused of looting the Hampton company while it was insolvent, has more than a million dollars…

A federal study released Wednesday projects that New Hampshire’s largest airport could see passenger traffic increase by 87 percent in the next decade. The New England Regional Airport System Plan, a mammoth 12-year study conducted by the New England Airport…

After personally experiencing the aggravation sparked by recent airline regulations governing liquid or gel-based carry-ons, the owners of a Silver Lake business have made it possible for travelers to have complete personal-care kits delivered and waiting for them at their…

Deborah Platt Majoras, chair of the Federal Trade Commission, will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming Business and Industry Association annual dinner. The evening will begin at 5 p.m. Nov. 8 at the Center of New Hampshire, Manchester. Among…

The University of New Hampshire has launched its first degree program outside the United States, offering a master of science in the management of technology to students in Seoul, South Korea. A program of the Whittemore School of Business and…

The Small Business Adminsitration backed 1,028 loans valued at a total of more than $127 million to New Hampshire businesses in the 2006 fiscal year that ended Sept. 30. The number of SBA-backed loans was down 17 percent from the…