MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Manchester is adding police patrols to fight violent crime and drug dealers.Police spokesman Sgt. Mark Fowke said the patrols will involve local, state and federal agencies assigned to areas around schools and downtown clubs.The patrols will be out frequently for the next several months, but police are not releasing details on […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Pfizer Inc. won a crucial court ruling Friday that will allow it to exclusively sell the top-selling drug worldwide, the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, until 2011. Shares of Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, soared more than 11 percent on the news.District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. ruled in Delaware federal court […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Pfizer Inc. won a crucial court ruling Friday that will allow it to exclusively sell the top-selling drug worldwide, the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, until 2011. Shares of Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, soared more than 11 percent on the news.District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. ruled in Delaware federal court […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Pfizer Inc. won a crucial court ruling Friday that will allow it to exclusively sell the top-selling drug worldwide, the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, until 2011. Shares of Pfizer, the world’s largest drug company, soared more than 11 percent on the news.District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. ruled in Delaware federal court […]

• ON THE RISE: The number of slayings in Boston has climbed from 31 in 1999 to 71 sop far this year.n COUNTER TREND: Many other major U.S. cities are seeing their death tolls fall.n WHAT WENT WRONG: The reasons given include a rising number of young people and the abandonment since the late 1990s […]

PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) – Next time, just pay the ticket.William S. Shufro, 46, of Portsmouth, faces a felony forgery charge for allegedly trying to alter a $100 ticket received for parking illegally in a handicapped space.Police allege that Shufro tried to alter the ticket to give the appearance that it had been issued for parking […]

BELMONT, N.H. (AP) – The new owners of Lakes Region Greyhound Park have filed an application for a gaming license.Belmont Racing, submitted the application to the state Pari-Mutuel Commission this week.The Attorney General has 90 days to review the application before providing a report to the commission. Track spokesman Rick Newman said they don’t anticipate […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – Manchester is adding police patrols to fight violent crime and drug dealers.Police spokesman Sgt. Mark Fowke said the patrols will involve local, state and federal agencies assigned to areas around schools and downtown clubs.The patrols will be out frequently for the next several months, but police are not releasing details on […]

WINCHESTER, N.H. (AP) – The thundering machinery is quiet, replaced by the sounds of wind easing through the rafters. For Gary O’Neal, this is strangest part about walking through the old mill.Three generations of his family ran the paper mill on the Ashuelot River, employing generations of local workers, many of whom lived near the […]

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) – Shares of insulin pump maker Animas Corp. soared more than 30 percent Friday after health care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson said it had agreed to acquire the company for about $518 million to capitalize on the growing demand for diabetes treatment.The acquisition will give Johnson & Johnson immediate entry in […]