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U.S. Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, is opening an investigation into allegations that former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official Corey Lewandowski used his position to solicit personal payments from government contractors and engaged in other serious misconduct.
Police are investigating the death of Leah Anderson, 21, a student at Plymouth State University majoring in Elementary Education and Youth Development after a shooting in Thornton, according to a news release from Attorney General John Formella.
Police are responding to a shooting incident with serious bodily injury on Upper Mad River Road in Thornton, New Hampshire, according to a news release from Attorney General John Formella.
Supreme Court Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald will not recuse himself from deciding the appeal of the Rand education funding lawsuit now before the court.
On the day House members learned House Speaker Sherman Packard was stepping down, lawmakers Thursday killed a bill that would have limited cities’ and towns’ ability to write ordinances or rules for firearms and self-defense tools as well as state agencies.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte told reporters in her office Wednesday afternoon she is looking forward to getting out and doing a lot of grassroots campaigning for reelection and said she is among many who are looking forward to an end to the legislative season Thursday.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled that Portsmouth must give $150,000 back pay to fired Portsmouth Police Officer Aaron Goodwin, who got in trouble for pressuring an elderly woman to leave him her $2.7 million fortune.
The US District Court Thursday found the state’s law requiring a birth certificate, passport or naturalization as the only proof of citizenship instead of an affidavit filed under oath, was unconstitutional.
Michelle Edmark’s troubled nomination to be an assistant commissioner at the Department of Corrections is the subject of confidential meetings held with Commissioner William Hart and Assistant Commissioner Jessica Kuron.
Executive Councilor Janet Stevens, R-Rye, is asking the Attorney General’s office to intervene in her request to the Berlin Police Department for more information on its internal investigation into the murder-suicide last summer, which rocked the state and led to changes in procedures and laws as they relate to domestic violence.
