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Unless a lot of cigarettes are sold Tuesday in New Hampshire, the state tax on them will rise a quarter a pack.

A Nashua, New Hampshire, man has been arrested after refusing to leave the home he was hiding in for eight hours.

A second trial is under way in the case of a baseball-bat attack in Manchester, New Hampshire, in which the victim died 10 months later.

Presidential candidate Barack Obama urged lawmakers on Tuesday to return to the negotiating table to work on a financial rescue deal and offered a new proposal he said could help attract support.

David Janawicz, who modernized the Capitol Police during his 13 years heading security at the Statehouse, has died after battling lung cancer. He was 62.

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Bill Maher has taken his crusade against religion to the big screen. Maher, who has been picking on organized religion for years on his TV shows "Politically Incorrect" and "Real Time," zealously traveled the world for "Religulous," his documentary challenging the validity and value of Christian, Jewish and Islamic faiths.

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Ed Harris took Old West self-sufficiency to heart with his latest film. First, Harris secured the rights to Robert B. Parker's Western novel "Appaloosa" and pitched it to buddy Viggo Mortensen, who agreed to co-star with him in the saga of two upright pals aiming to clean up a lawless town.

Ed Harris took Old West self-sufficiency to heart with his latest film. First, Harris secured the rights to Robert B. Parker's Western novel "Appaloosa" and pitched it to buddy Viggo Mortensen, who agreed to co-star with him in the saga of two upright pals aiming to clean up a lawless town.