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New Hampshire's first Islamic Mosque is under construction in Manchester.

The state's growing Muslim community, now estimated at over 3,000, has long desired its own place of worship.

And this past May, builders finally broke ground in a quiet out-of-the-way neighborhood in the state's largest city.

However, some local residents don't want the construction to continue.

NHPR Correspondent Debra Daigle has the story from Manchester.

Governor John Lynch has jumped into the fray to criticize the theories of a University of New Hampshire professor.

Dr. William Woodward is a member of Scholars for 9/11 Truth which holds that the Bush Administration may have been involved in the September 11th terrorist attacks.

And he's discussed those theories in his class.

Governor Lynch has called the assertions "completely crazy and offensive," and he says he plans to discuss his concerns with UNH Trustees.

Earlier this week, Senator Judd Gregg called it inappropriate that someone at a taxpayer funded university would take positions that are an affront to American sensibilities.

Gregg is also quoted as saying that he believes there are limits to academic freedom and freedom of speech.

Dr. Bruce Mallory is the Provost at UNH.

He oversees the curriculum at all the schools and collges at the university....and its academic mission.

He tells NHPR's Mark Bevis that the university has no written rules on what can be said in class.

This month planes have been flying low over the forest of Northern New England, pelting the ground with hundreds of thousands of fish-flavored treats.

Their target: raccoons.

The fishy treats are laced with rabies vaccine.

The vaccine bait drops are part of a government strategy to halt the march of raccoon rabies across the Eastern United States.

So far the program has helped stall the northward advance in New Hampshire at the North Country.

But in southern New Hampshire the virus is well established and rabies cases are on the rise.

New Hampshire Public Radio’s Kerry Grens reports.

Tonight, the Portsmouth little league team faces Georgia in the semi-finals of the Little League World Series.

Union Leader sports writer Marc Thaler is in Williamsport, Pennsylvania where the series is being played. He spoke to New Hampshire Public Radio's Jon Greenberg. Thayler says no one, not even the Portmouth coach, ever expected the team to come so far.

Incumbent congressman win re-election more than 90 percent of the time.

And after 6 terms in Washington, Charles Bass enjoys advantages in money and name recognition.

But Bass does face some primary challengers.

He ran into one of them, Berlin Mayor Bob Danderson at a GOP picnic in Milford over the weekend.