<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV</title><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh</link><description><![CDATA[Boston Weather, Breaking News and Sports from WBZ-TV]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Corporation. All rights reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:56:37 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Creditors Seek Examiner In FairPoint Bankruptcy]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Group.of.creditors.2.1299474.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Group.of.creditors.2.1299474.html</link><description><![CDATA[A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge has scheduled a Nov. 18 hearing on a motion to appoint an examiner to investigate factors leading to FairPoint Communications Inc.'s Chapter 11 bankruptcy last month. A group of creditors who are owed more than $550 million wants to know if FairPoint's top managers misrepresented the company's prospects for recovery and are trying to profit from the reorganization. The creditors are also asking why the company paid a $23 million dividend just as the financial problems were mounting. FairPoint, based in Charlotte, N.C., operates phone companies in 18 states. Its largest holdings are in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, where it bought Verizon Communications' landline and Internet assets last year.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:34:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dartmouth Trustees Set Budget-cutting Targets]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Dartmouth.trustees.set.2.1299389.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Dartmouth.trustees.set.2.1299389.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Dartmouth College Board of Trustees is asking the administration to cut $50 million a year from the college budget in each of the next two fiscal years. Dartmouth President Jim Yong Kim discussed budget projections and priorities with trustees during the board's annual fall meeting in Hanover on Friday and Saturday. The board asked the administration to prepare a budget plan for fiscal years 2011 through 2014, with a target of $50 million in cuts for fiscal year 2011 and another $50 million in cuts for 2012.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 16:20:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NH Paid Sick Bill Recommendation Due Tuesday]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/NH.committee.to.2.1299311.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/NH.committee.to.2.1299311.html</link><description><![CDATA[A House committee plans to make its recommendation Tuesday on a bill that would require employers to provide paid sick leave for their employees. The Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services Committee has been working on the bill this fall. The bill was introduced last session but held over for more work. The full House votes on the measure next year. The bill would require employers to provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave in a calendar year to all full and part-time workers employed for at least six months. The bill would not limit companies from providing more sick leave.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:54:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NH DWI Sign Program Would Memorialize Victims]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/NH.lawmaker.proposes.2.1299278.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/NH.lawmaker.proposes.2.1299278.html</link><description><![CDATA[A New Hampshire woman whose father was killed by a drunken driver does not think flowers or illegal makeshift memorials on roadsides are enough. With lawmakers' help, Wendy MacLearn has proposed a new law that will allow the state highway department to post legal signs near the site where people have been killed by drunken drivers — both as a memorial and to call attention to the dangers of driving drunk Bedford Republican Jayne Spaulding is sponsoring the bill which she says will provide an alternative to the makeshift memorials that don't tell the public a drunk driver was at fault.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:02:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gregg To Attend VA Hospital Veterans Day Event]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Sen.Judd.Gregg.2.1299272.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Sen.Judd.Gregg.2.1299272.html</link><description><![CDATA[New Hampshire Sen. Judd Gregg will join veterans and their families at a ceremony to celebrate their dedicated service. Gregg will attend the Manchester VA Hospital's Veterans Day event Sunday at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester. He said he is proud to be part of the event but said the nation should express its appreciation for veterans every day, not just around the national holiday.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:57:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Recommendation Planned On NH Assisted Suicide Bill]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Recommendation.on.assisted.2.1299262.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Recommendation.on.assisted.2.1299262.html</link><description><![CDATA[A New Hampshire House committee plans to make its recommendation Tuesday on a bill to legalize assisted suicide for the terminally ill. The Judiciary Committee this fall has been working on the bill, which was introduced last session but held over for more work. The full House votes on the measure next year. The bill would let terminally ill patients over age 18 obtain lethal prescriptions, with safeguards to prevent abuses.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 13:38:50 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Man Killed In Seabrook, NH, Fire]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Fire.at.Seabrook.2.1298516.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Fire.at.Seabrook.2.1298516.html</link><description><![CDATA[Authorities are investigating the cause of a fire that killed a man in Seabrook, N.H. Police say the victim was found on the first floor of the residence Saturday morning. Fire officials say the blaze started on the rear exterior porch. Authorities say a 20-year-old man living at the home died in the fire and that three roommates escaped unharmed.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:51:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[2010 Elections: Democratic Fears, Republican Hopes]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Republicans.see.opportunity.2.1298121.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/Republicans.see.opportunity.2.1298121.html</link><description><![CDATA[Oh, how the tables have turned. Nervous Democrats are on defense and emboldened Republicans sense opportunity heading into 2010 and the midterm elections. It was just three years ago that the GOP lost the House and Senate as well as governors' races in a cross-country Democratic wave. Now, with most states under their control and comfortable majorities in Congress, Democrats must protect far more seats than Republicans: 19 governors' mansions, 17 Senate seats and as many as 60 House districts in moderate-to-conservative regions and swing-voting areas.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:08:23 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Final Funding Approved For NH's Cold Case Unit]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/NH.approves.final.2.1298327.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/NH.approves.final.2.1298327.html</link><description><![CDATA[A New Hampshire state police officials hopes that a new cold-case homicide unit will start coming results by the end of its first year. The final step in creating the unit came this week when the Executive Council accepted nearly $700,000 in federal stimulus funds to cover two full-time troopers through June 2012. But State Police Col. Fred Booth says the public shouldn't expect instant results given how much digging up of old information is involved. He told the New Hampshire Union Leader that he hopes to report real progress by the time an update to the Legislature is due in December 2010. The state has more than 100 unsolved murder dating back to 1970.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:43:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[UNH President Chastises Witnesses To Assault]]></title><guid>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/UNH.president.calls.2.1298419.html</guid><link>http://wbztv.com/wireapnewsnh/UNH.president.calls.2.1298419.html</link><description><![CDATA[University of New Hampshire President Mark Huddleston says he disappointed that students who witnessed an assault on one of their peers walked by without stopping to help. Police are still investigating the incident, which happened late on Halloween and involved as many as five people kicking and punching a 21-year-old male student, who suffered significant injuries to his face and torso. Foster's Daily Democrat reports that Huddleston wrote to the school's newspaper saying that aside from the victim's injuries, what disturbed him most was that so witnesses did nothing. He says he doesn't expect people to put themselves in harm's way to break up a fight, but the fact that many ignored it was unacceptable.]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 18:36:29 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>