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Editor’s Note: Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday US Attorney Jane Young said she is resigning in a news release detailing her accomplishments in the office, but didn’t say what her plans are for the future. Also Thursday, an email from InDepthNH.org to Gov.-Elect Kelly Ayotte’s press office asking if she plans to replace Attorney General John Formella with Young received no response.
Former YDC staffer Jeffrey Buskey, accused of hundreds of rapes in the child sex abuse scandal at what is now known as Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester, was fired as a Sanbornton police officer in 2004 after he got caught bouncing checks.
Supporters of a group of school districts led by Contoocook Valley (ConVal) that sued the state over education funding were cautiously optimistic after oral arguments before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, while the defendants – the state Legislature, governor, Department of Education and Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut – largely remained silent.
A former New Hampshire State Police Trooper trying to get off the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule claimed the lies that got him fired are the result of a medical issue that should not be used against him.
For the second time in less than a month, the state Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over whether New Hampshire’s current school funding scheme is constitutional.
From sensors on highways that would alert police to wrong-way drivers to ways to warn motorists of an approaching hazard, technology could help the state prevent highway tragedy and the state is now exploring them to save lives, Commissioner of Safety Robert Quinn said.
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that Robert Gagnon, age 47, has been sentenced today on multiple charges in connection with the shooting of Carlos Quintong, age 46, in Brookline, and the murder of Robert Prest, age 83, in Lyndeborough, both on November 23, 2022.
It’s been almost a year since Linda Gauthier, of Gorham, was killed in a head-on collision on Route 16 with the truck operated by Errol Fire Chief Bradley Eldridge, and her family is still in the dark about what happened
The New Hampshire Supreme Court issued case orders on Tuesday on two separate Laurie List appeals, and while the cases are similar, the different results highlight the fact the court is still defining how Laurie List functions since it became a public document in 2021.
A Sierra Leone man and former Manchester businessman was sentenced today in federal court for fraudulently obtaining more than $400,000 in car loans, U.S. Attorney Jane E. Young announces.
