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Attorney General John Formella is re-evaluating the state’s position against reporting certain mentally ill people to the national database that could potentially keep those like John Madore from legally purchasing firearms.
The man authorities say shot and killed an unarmed security officer at New Hampshire Hospital Friday was twice arrested in the past for charges involving firearms and was briefly hospitalized at the same psychiatric hospital in 2016, according to court records made available on Monday.
Three people were arrested Monday accused of vandalizing Israeli-based defense contractor Elbit System’s Merrimack facility at 220 Daniel Webster Highway during a pro-Palestine protest.
After the news broke in September that former Republican state Rep. Troy Merner was living out of district during the entire last House session, Rep. Kat McGhee, D-Hollis, said he told her that “everyone knew” he had moved away from Lancaster but House “leadership” told him to continue serving.
Democrat Paige Beauchemin won the House seat representing Nashua Ward 4 formerly held by David Cote who stepped aside because of chronic ill health.
Two former state senators with little in common politically before former Republican state Rep. Troy Merner was caught serving in the House after moving out of his district are teaming up to find out who knew what and when they knew it about Merner’s many months of deceit.
Another former state lawmaker – a Republican this time – is furious at the lack of information being made public about who knew what and when they knew former Republican Rep. Troy Merner wasn’t living in Lancaster or anywhere in his district as required by the New Hampshire Constitution.
A former lawmaker who has been fighting to get to the bottom of what officials knew and when they knew former Republican Rep. Troy Merner was illegally serving in the House because he no longer lived in Lancaster or any towns in his district says there is a cover up going on.
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