MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, Feb. 5 -- The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division issued the following news release: After an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD), the City of Concord, New Hampshire, paid $9,645 in civil money penalties for violations of the child labor requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) at the Douglas N. Everett Ice Arena, which led to the injury of one minor employee. WHD investigators found the employer viola  more

SPRINGFIELD, Virginia, Feb. 3 -- The Environmental Protection Agency has issued a notice, published in the Federal Register on Feb. 3, entitled: "Clean Air Act Operating Permit Program; Petition for Objection to State Operating Permit for Wheelabrator Environmental System Inc., Wheelabrator Concord Company, L.P., Concord, New Hampshire". SUMMARY: The EPA Administrator signed an Order, dated October 30, 2019, denying a petition dated March 14, 2019, filed by Anthony Caplan, Katherine Lajoie, Re  more

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4 -- The Smithsonian Institution issued the following news release: Curators from the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History are traveling to a variety of campaign events, including the Feb. 3 Iowa caucus and the Feb. 11 New Hampshire primary to collect materials and memorabilia reflecting the electoral process. In addition to Iowa and New Hampshire, political history curators Lisa Kathleen Graddy, Jon Grinspan and Claire Jerry will collect from the Democratic and Re  more

BOSTON, Massachusetts, Feb. 7 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Transportation Security Administration issued the following news release: Transportation Security Administration officers at Boston Logan International Airport caught a New Hampshire man carrying a .32 caliber gun loaded with eight bullets at one of the airport checkpoints this morning (Feb. 7). The TSA officers stopped the man, a resident of Hancock, New Hampshire, when they spotted the loaded gun as the man's belong  more