Is there a worst time of year to visit New Hampshire? March, with the snow already melting into mud and cold drizzle. No glowing foliage, no frosted mountaintops, no sparkling summer lakes. Yet it was early March when Abraham Lincoln made his first and only trip to New Hampshire in 1860. It rained for much of his visit. Let's hope the weather did not sour his impression of the place.

Lucille Cook's son, James, was born with brain damage and cerebral palsy. He couldn't speak. He couldn't feed himself. He needed diapers throughout his life. When something was wrong, he would start hitting himself on the head, Lucille Cook said.

The owner of a Franklin foundry fined more than $250,000 after federal investigators reported finding potentially deadly levels of lead dust spread throughout his factory formally contested the findings yesterday.

On the eve of the U.S. House vote on health care reform, both of New Hampshire's representatives have come out as enthusiastic supporters of the bill.