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State Rep. Jon Stone, R-Claremont, was removed from two local committees by the Claremont City Council Wednesday night after about a dozen citizens spoke out against his actions when he was a police officer years ago that were first reported April 5 by InDepthNH.org’s Damien Fisher.
And the former Laconia State School property is a total fixer upper with a history and now an investigation into the woman who won the $21.5 million bid to develop it, but failed to come up with the money by Monday’s deadline after three extensions.
Republican leaders in New Hampshire appear to be giving House Rep. Jon Stone a pass or ignoring allegations made public two weeks ago about his menacing behavior as a police officer 18 years ago, but some Claremont residents say they want him removed at least from local committees.
Sen. Sharon Carson, R-Londonderry, issued a news release Tuesday to say that an ultrasound would not be required to establish gestational age to obtain an abortion, but Sen. Becky Whitley, D-Hopkinton who is running for Congress, disagreed.
Karen LeMoine testified Wednesday she feared being raped or worse after she complained about the treatment of incarcerated children when she worked at the Youth Development Center in Manchester for two years until 1991.
David Meehan’s lawyer told jurors how his already troubled life became part of an “inhuman atrocity” when sent at age 14 to the state’s youth detention center in Manchester where he was raped hundreds of times, beaten and locked in solitary confinement for months on end from 1995 to 1999.
The state has made a confidential deal offer to former Republican Rep. Troy Merner on criminal charges related to moving out of the Lancaster district he was elected to serve in the House, but it contained an “illegal condition,” according to a motion filed by Merner’s attorney William Dolan.
A parole hearing has been scheduled April 18 for James Parker, 39, who was sentenced to serve 25 years to life in prison in connection with the brutal 2001 murders of a couple who were professors at Dartmouth College.
Two former state senators with little in common politically except their disdain for the state’s handling of the case against former Republican state Rep. Troy Merner disagreed on whether he should be allowed confidential criminal mediation that will be closed to the public and press.