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As rising copper prices spark what may be a rash of burglaries in certain parts of the Granite State, law enforcement officials believe vigilance is the best means of protection. Copper prices peaked above $2 pound earlier this summer and…

New Hampshire has received over $1 million from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help with preparations against an influenza pandemic. The funds will help the state Department of Health and Human Services continue its ongoing plans…

Mark Bodi, a longtime principal in the advertising agency Griffin Bodi & Krause, has been named president of the Manchester-based firm and Travis C. York, an executive with the firm for the past year, has been promoted to executive vice…

Governor John Lynch announced yesterday that Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has committed to appointing an arbiter to resolve the differences between the two states over the Merrimack River Valley Flood Control Compact. Earlier this week, Massachusetts sent New Hampshire $600,000…

Dan Prior, chairman and CEO of the AutoFair Group car dealerships in Manchester, is selling his interest in the company. Prior will sell his interest to AutoFair co-founder Walter Wick and Mark Schols, who has owned car dealerships in other…

Piyush Patel, former CEO of Cabletron Systems and former chairman of the board of Riverstone Networks was - and still might be - a target of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. Patel, as well as at least six other…

StockerYale has all but given away more than 642,857 shares of stock to obtain $4 million in revolving credit over the next three years. The Salem-based provider of photonics-based products revealed last week in a filing with the Securities and…

Efforts by The Timberland Company to create footwear for the hard-to-fit population has earned the Stratham-based company the 2006 Industrial Design Excellence Award (IDEA award) for its new Timberland PreciseFit system, which will debut next month. The award, sponsored by…

Norris Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon has been ranked as one of the nation’s top 50 hospitals for cancer care by US News & World Report in its 2006 “Americas Best Hospitals” issue. Placing 43rd on…

Patricia Foss controlled nearly all of the voting stock in Foss Manufacturing in July 2004, more than a year before the Hampton firm went bankrupt, and she owned nearly half of the stock two years before that, she said in…