Claremont’s insurance company, Primex, paid out $75,000 to settle the lawsuit brought against two former city police officers by the man who they reportedly assaulted and arrested using faked evidence.
Courts & Corrections
Keeping the Light On: Holding Government Accountable
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On Monday, March 15, from 6:30pm – 8 pm, the Nackey S. Loeb School of Communications and the New England First Amendment Coalition are celebrating Sunshine Week with an expert, online panel discussion, Keeping the Light On: Holding Government Accountable.
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Bill Enhances Disability Benefits If Police, Firefighter Attacked On the Job
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A police officer or firefighter violently attacked doing their job and as a result is permanently disabled would qualify for an enhanced benefit from the state retirement system under a bill heard by a Senate committee Wednesday.
Courts & Corrections
Council Confirms McKenzie Snow To Education, Eddie Edwards to Safety
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Former congressional candidate Eddie Edwards of Dover was unanimously approved as assistant commissioner of the Department of Safety and Gov. Chris Sununu formally placed the name of his chief legal counsel, John Formella of Portsmouth, to be the next attorney general at the Executive Council meeting Wednesday.
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Sununu To Nominate John Formella As Attorney General
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The nomination will be made at the March 3rd Governor and Council meeting.
Business & Economy
No New COVID-19 Deaths Monday, 252 Cases
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The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services announced 252 new positive test results for COVID-19 and no new deaths Monday, for a current PCR test positivity rate of 6.1%.
ADA
Judge Decides No Remote Access to House Sessions Required
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U.S. District Court Chief Judge Landya B. McCafferty, denied a request by seven disabled Democrats who sued Republican House Speaker Sherman Packard of Londonderry seeking to attend the sessions remotely rather than in person.
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Judge Says No Bail for Britany Barron in Beheading Case
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Britany Barron was doing what her husband told her to do when she cut the head off of her dead lover and dumped his body in a stream, and Judge Peter Bornstein said that’s reason enough to keep her in jail pending trial.
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Prosecutors Say Britany Barron Passed on Chance To Save Jonathan Amerault
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Prosecutors say Britany Barron passed on a chance to save the life of her lover, Jonathan Amerault, moments before her husband, Armando Barron shot and killed him.
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Sununu Says He’s Close To Nominating New Attorney General
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The way it works, the governor nominates an attorney general and he or she has to be confirmed by the elected, five-member Executive Council. The Republican governor, now entering his third term, has a 4-1 Republican majority in the Executive Council for the first time in two years.