With half of the corrections officer positions vacant, the Department of Corrections has used overtime at double pay to cover the open shifts.
Courts & Corrections
Committee Recommends Killing Bills on Water Pollution, Maintaining State Dams
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The Senate Ways and Means Committee recommended killing three bills Wednesday that would have supported cyanobacteria mitigation and prevention and maintaining state dams.
Business & Economy
AG Confirms To Council an Investigation Into New Sununu Center Abuse Allegations
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The Attorney General’s Office has launched an investigation into the allegations that there has been abuse of children by state employees at the Sununu Youth Services Center, the governor and state Executive Council were told Wednesday.
Courts & Corrections
AG: Man Charged with Murdering His Mother in Laconia
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The autopsy examination confirmed that Mrs. Dionne’s cause of death was strangulation and her manner of death was homicide.
Courts & Corrections
Campus Weapon Carry Bill Gets a Hot Hearing
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A bill that would prohibit public universities and colleges in the state from regulating the possession of firearms on campus brought a huge crowd to the Senate Judiciary Committee public hearing Tuesday.
Courts & Corrections
AG Investigates Woman’s Death as Suspected Homicide
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Officers of the Laconia Police Department were called to a home on Old Prescott Hill Road this afternoon in Laconia, New Hampshire, where they discovered an adult female resident deceased inside the home.
Courts & Corrections
Rachael Garden Disappeared in 1980; Foul Play Likely, Your Help Sought Finding Answers
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Fifteen-year-old Rachael Garden was last seen on March 22, 1980, while walking home from Rowe’s Corner Market on Pond Street in Newton, New Hampshire and has not been heard from since.
Business & Economy
Owner of Old Dutch Mustard Co. Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison; Company Fined $1.5M for Polluting Souhegan River
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A New York man and Old Dutch Mustard Co., a mustard and vinegar manufacturing company, were sentenced today in federal court for knowingly discharging acidic water into the Souhegan River, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces.
Courts & Corrections
GOP Leaders: SYSC Abuse Reports Need Fast Action; Adult Survivor: State Can’t Be Trusted
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Chuck Miles, an abuse survivor and board member of Justice for YDC Victims said: “The Child Advocate’s report confirms New Hampshire continues to fail to protect its most vulnerable children. I was one of many children abused in State custody because of its institutional failures.”
Business & Economy
North Country Growers CEO’s Illegal Voting Conviction Overturned
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The New Hampshire Supreme Court on Thursday overturned Richard Rosen’s illegal voting conviction, ruling the trial court judge was wrong to suppress evidence that another man confessed to casting the illegal vote.