Various polling places in Manchester had federal monitors from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) present to oversee the primary election and ensure transparency and compliance with federal law.
Courts & Corrections
Woman and 1-Year-Old Seriously Hurt in Crash, Driver Charged with Aggravated DUI
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Manchester Police have arrested the driver involved in a serious crash Monday evening that left a 1-year-old child with serious injuries.
Courts & Corrections
Immigrant rights group seeks to block use of federal databases it says could purge legal voters
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An immigrant rights group sued the Trump administration Wednesday to block the U.S. Department of Homeland Security from using federal databases that it alleged are being used to target naturalized citizens who are eligible to vote.
Courts & Corrections
Attorneys Challenge State Immunity in 1970s Youth Facility Abuse
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Attorneys representing a man who alleges he was abused by staff at a state-run at-risk youth facility in the 1970s have filed an appeal to the state Supreme Court, asking for his day in court.
Business & Economy
InDepthNH.org Journalist Damien Fisher To Receive NEFAC Freedom of Information Award
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Fisher, who reports for InDepthNH.org, is a fierce defender of government transparency and regularly uses the New Hampshire Right to Know Law to fight against secrecy.
Business & Economy
US judges reveal panic buttons, private security in chilling new reports about threats
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Federal judges have varied their commutes, hired private security and fortified their homes, including with panic buttons, amid a barrage of threats and harassment in recent months that has left many of them anxious about their safety, according to two new studies.
Business & Economy
Orlando Stakes Position As Working Class Alternative to Tang Williams in NH-02 GOP Debate
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Newcomer Victor Orlando, owner of a roofing company, positioned himself as the independent working-class alternative to frontrunner Lily Tang Williams, as well as the candidate more likely to break with President Trump on civil liberties and institutional power.
Courts & Corrections
Parents Seek to Block School Budget Cap Question
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Two New Hampshire parents, one a school board member and the other a former school budget committee member, have sued to block the school budget cap question from appearing on the general election ballot in November.
Courts & Corrections
Rand Attorneys Again Seek Recusals from MacDonald and Will in Education Funding Appeal
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The attorneys for the Rand education funding case are asking again for the recusal of Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and associate justice Daniel Will from deciding the state’s appeal at the Supreme Court.
Courts & Corrections
Op-Ed: ‘I believe we are ripe for fascism in Berlin’
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The NBA program bypasses local government to pay for related police overtime, training, and overhead, while promoting applications for federal DHS grants to buy equipment, including Tactical Gear, Breaching Equipment, Mobile Command Vehicles, Mobile Repeaters, Infrared Illuminators – and that’s just so far. Berlin, a small city whose police entered into an NBA agreement, and is more than 35 miles away from the nearest point on the Canadian border, has applied for all of that.