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A man suspected of killing a woman in Troy overnight was fatally shot by police 100 miles away with a child’s body found in his car after an encounter on the Piscataqua River Bridge at the Portsmouth and Kittery, Maine state line Thursday.
Former Republican state Rep. Troy Merner will appear before a judge Wednesday at his plea and sentencing hearing at 11 a.m. in Grafton Superior Court.
An adult who was recently diagnosed with tuberculosis spent time in a childcare center in Manchester while infectious, according to a statement from the state Department of Health and Human Services.
Judge Peter Bornstein has denied former Democratic state Sen. Jeffrey Woodburn’s motion for sentence modification and ordered a hearing to impose his 30-day jail sentence, but Attorney Mark Sisti said his client isn’t giving up at this point.
The state is paying an out-of-state law firm to vet claims by victims who were abused as children while incarcerated at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester – then called YDC – out of the same $160 million the legislature approved to compensate victims through the settlement fund.
A long-time friend of Geno Marconi believes he and his wife state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi have both been placed on paid administrative leave to pressure Mr. Marconi to resign as director of New Hampshire Division of Ports and Harbors.
CONCORD – A former Keene woman pleaded guilty Tuesday in federal court to stealing almost $500,000 from her employer between 2015 and 2021, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announced in an email press release.
Former state senator Jeffrey Woodburn of Whitefield filed an objection Friday to the state’s motion to impose the 30 days in jail he received for breaking a dryer door and kicking in the door to the home of his then-fiancée Emily Jacobs and asked that the sentence be modified.
ACLU-NH has again questioned why taxpayer dollars are still allocated for the northern border with Canada after data on encounters by both Border Patrol and the state’s Northern Border Alliance Task Force from January to May 2024 showed zero encounters.