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The sister of Jason Rothe, the mentally ill patient who died in state custody, is suing the Department of Corrections, former Commissioner Helen Hanks, and several corrections officers involved in his death.
Another trial date for Peter Stone, the therapist charged with sexually assaulting his patient in North Conway, has once again been set in Carroll County Superior Court in Ossipee.
More than 20,000 victims of crime who have been waiting months for restitution checks from perpetrators have two bits of good news this week.
This seems to be the first felony case for Peter Stone, but not for Peter Dushame, Stone’s original name. By the time he was 33, Dushame notched five drunk driving arrests, and had been involved in two fatal car accidents.
A Gorham man facing numerous reckless conduct charges alleging he shot up businesses in Berlin and a nearby home and property is now behind bars after a judge in Coos County Superior Court ruled on a rehearing request on bail at the request of the Coos County Attorney.
The Senate Ways and Means Committee recommended killing three bills Wednesday that would have supported cyanobacteria mitigation and prevention and maintaining state dams.
Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte weighed in with members of the media on the subjects of campus carry and open enrollment – along with commenting on nuclear power and broad-based taxes – on Wednesday after a long Executive Council meeting.
The Attorney General’s Office has launched an investigation into the allegations that there has been abuse of children by state employees at the Sununu Youth Services Center, the governor and state Executive Council were told Wednesday.
After nearly two hours of testimony in support of a national battery recycling program for New Hampshire, the Senate Ways and Means Committee decided the bill ought to be killed.
The autopsy examination confirmed that Mrs. Dionne’s cause of death was strangulation and her manner of death was homicide.
A bill that would prohibit public universities and colleges in the state from regulating the possession of firearms on campus brought a huge crowd to the Senate Judiciary Committee public hearing Tuesday.
Officers of the Laconia Police Department were called to a home on Old Prescott Hill Road this afternoon in Laconia, New Hampshire, where they discovered an adult female resident deceased inside the home.
But now, it’s time for all of that tactile precipitation to depart, to go away, time for shovels and ice scrapers to disappear.
Officers with the Laconia Police Department went to conduct a welfare check at an address on South Main Street in Laconia, New Hampshire, this morning when they discovered an adult male resident deceased inside the home.
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State Rep. Ellen Read, D-Newmarket, said she is considering her legal options after House Speaker Sherman Packard banned her on non-session days from the House chamber, ante-room and gallery at the State House because of her “shouting” and using profanity Tuesday outside a Senate committee hearing on her bill to provide sexual assault victims their rights.
Open enrollment in public schools was fast tracked by Republicans in the House Education Policy and Administration Committee Monday despite numerous questions of Democrats on what the bill means and what it would actually do in the state.
Fifteen-year-old Rachael Garden was last seen on March 22, 1980, while walking home from Rowe’s Corner Market on Pond Street in Newton, New Hampshire and has not been heard from since.
Newington, spends 29 percent of its total property taxes on schools; Sunapee, 52 percent; Newport, 59 percent, and Charlestown, 69 percent.
At 7:08 p.m. Saturday, April 11, 2026, the State Police Communications Unit received a report that an individual fell into the Merrimack River from the railroad track bridge in the area of Riverside Street and Main Street in Hooksett.
The Department of Homeland Security has still not ruled out potentially opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Hampshire, following now-Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s refusal to reject the idea during his confirmation hearing.
A New York man and Old Dutch Mustard Co., a mustard and vinegar manufacturing company, were sentenced today in federal court for knowingly discharging acidic water into the Souhegan River, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces.
