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AG: Man Found Dead in Haverhill, NH, was Victim of Homicide
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An autopsy shows the death of man in Haverhill April 20 was a homicide, according to a news release from Attorney General John Formella.
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An autopsy shows the death of man in Haverhill April 20 was a homicide, according to a news release from Attorney General John Formella.
The bill to allow parents to send their children to any public school they want, SB101, got tabled Thursday in the House with a 320 to 32 vote, effectively killing that bill.
The lawyer for convicted YDC sexual abuser James Woodlock says his client is suffering a physical and mental breakdown due to months of solitary confinement.
The Members are specifically calling out contradictions in the Secretary’s characterization of the attack, which troops injured on base have called “falsehoods,” as well as the broader implications of threats posed by Iranian drones to the 50,000+ U.S. troops and billions of dollars in assets in the region.
Activists rallied at Citizens Bank at 20 Highland Street on Wednesday, calling for the organization to end its financial relationship with CoreCivic and the GEO Group, companies that build and operate detention centers for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
Education bills were advanced in the Senate session Thursday including one to help alleviate the school bus driver shortage.
Roger Gerard Talbot, 83, an award-winning journalist for the New Hampshire Sunday News, died April 22, 2026, in the Intensive Care Unit at Concord Hospital. Just eight days prior he had been cleaning up his yard, when he suffered a devastating fall.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
James Fernald says former Ports Director Geno Marconi and his wife, retired Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi, were the victims of malicious prosecution because Marconi’s bosses on the Pease Development Authority board of directors broke the same law he pleaded guilty to for making public some confidential motor vehicle records.
When prosecutors called Sununu Youth Development Center sex abuse survivor Natasha Maunsell this week to tell her they were dropping the case against Victor Malavet, part of her was relieved.
In today’s Senate hearing examining the President’s budget request for the Department of Commerce, U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, slammed Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s comments insulting Canada—arguing that his rhetoric and President Trump’s trade war have real consequences for the U.S. economy and international partnerships, particularly for states like New Hampshire that benefit greatly from Canadian trade and tourism.
“Given threats and actions by the Trump administration to intervene militarily in an increasing number of places around the world, it is concerning that, at this time, steps are now being taken to grow the number of people who could be facing the threat of a future draft,” warns a statement endorsed by 43 anti-war and libertarian organizations at the end of March.
Prosecutors with the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office argued Tuesday in Merrimack County Superior Court that the evidence obtained during Clegg’s arrest — like his gun, his laptop, his $7,000 in cash, his Romanian identification — would have been found legally despite the fact the it was the three searches using illegal cell phone data, obtained without warrants, that made Clegg’s capture possible.
U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, grilled HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on why crucial global health vaccine funding has not been delivered despite being appropriated by Congress.
It comes at a time when there are new and heightened concerns for current abuse of youths at the detention center.
Young men and those who care about them would do well to heed a recent change in the law governing the Selective Service System (SSS), the federal agency which would administer a military draft.
Under RSA 654:39, voters who have not voted in the past five years will need to re-register before they can vote in future elections. Student IDs can be used until June 2, 2026, when NH HB323 takes effect.
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