The Portsmouth Herald

New Hampshire residents returning library books with bedbugs inside the pages may soon be temporarily banned. Library trustees at Lane Memorial Library in Hampton say they are considering temporarily banning people who return books with bedbugs inside after the vermin appeared at the return desk last month.

Some New Hampshire residents are protesting a plan to recruit archers to kill as many as 20 deer on New Castle Island. News outlets are reporting that nearly 2,000 residents have signed a petition opposing the plan proposed by condo managers of Wentworth by the Sea to stop deer from eating private gardens. Residents estimate there are about 24 deer...

A Dover High School teacher who led a class in which students were captured on video singing a jingle about the Ku Klux Klan is expected to return to teaching next fall after studying race, bias and privilege.

A New Hampshire woman is in a dispute over a 2020 Trump flag that housing authority officials say she can’t hang outside her rental unit. The Portsmouth Herald reports that Kay Keenan of Rochester says her flag was removed and left by her door with a note from the property manager asking her not to hang it again.

Visitors are expected to flock to New Hampshire this summer. The New Hampshire Department of Business and Economic Affairs says it is expecting to see a 2.7% increase in summer visitations and spending over 2018. As a result, the state is expecting to see about 3.6 billion overnight visitors and spending to reach $1.9 billion for the summer travel season.

Prosecutors say they could reach a plea deal with a New Hampshire woman who’s charged with murder stemming from a crash that killed a neighbor and seriously injured another. Police arrested 38-year-old Catrina Costello, of Seabrook, last year on a charge of fatally striking 64-year-old Stephen VanDalinda and injuring his wife, 61-year-old Erin. The Portsmouth Herald reports recent court documents...

Former Vice President and presidential candidate Joe Biden is visiting New Hampshire this week, jump starting his candidacy for president in one of the states considered most important in the primaries. Biden, who announced his candidacy for president later than many on April 25, will be making three stops in the granite state.

The Planning Board has given the green light for construction of a mosque with parking for 60 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The Islamic Society of the Seacoast received the unanimous approval last week of its site plan and conditional use permit.

The number of parties intending to sue the town of Kittery over a bus crash that injured 11 summer campers is growing. The Portsmouth Herald reports that five notices of intent to sue have been filed following the Kittery Community Center bus crash.

A regular patron has stepped up to save a beloved neighborhood bar in New Hampshire from closure.

A Portsmouth man has been sentenced to two to five years in prison for punching a woman more than 40 times outside a fitness club. Twenty-three-year-old Jordan Lamonde was convicted this month of second-degree assault for beating a woman outside the Rochester Planet Fitness in 2017.

A New Hampshire police department has come to the aid of a couple of adventurous raccoons.

Two men have been arrested in connection with a stabbing that began with a hot-sauce squirting incident in a New Hampshire restaurant.

A popular New Hampshire restaurant is set to close for the second time.

Police say a hotel guest in New Hampshire asked a housekeeping employee to clean her room, and then stabbed the worker in the face, neck and chest with a pair of scissors. Portsmouth Police Chief Robert Merner tells the Portsmouth Herald no argument preceded the stabbing Friday at the Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel and that it appeared to be a…

The struggling New Hampshire microbrewery Smuttynose sold for $8.25 million on Friday.

New Hampshire police say a University of New Hampshire student was arrested during a gathering of hundreds of football fans in Durham after the 2018 Super Bowl.

A New Hampshire brewery housed in a historic farm has adopted two donkeys as new mascots for the establishment.

A New Hampshire man has been indicted on multiple counts of sexual assault and a charge of attempting to pour cleaner fluid into his victim’s mouth.

Police in New Hampshire are investigating the death of a dog allegedly shot by a man who told police he felt his own dogs were threatened.