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Attorney General John M. Formella and Manchester Police Chief Peter A. Marr announce that a suspicious death investigation is underway following the discovery of a deceased newborn in the area of Pine Island Pond on the afternoon of Thursday, March 27, 2025, in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Lost amid the flurry of proposed budget cuts coming out of Concord is a proposal to slash the Department of Corrections funding to levels considered unsafe by department administration.
The state Senate passed a bill that would eliminate income thresholds to access the state’s Education Freedom Accounts Thursday on a partisan vote of 16-8.
For the third time in three years lawmakers are making changes to the bail system that was reformed several years ago, and since that time has been made more and more restrictive.
Veteran corrections officer Claudia Cass, who was fired after she called attention to dangerously low staffing inside the men’s prison in Concord, got her case to the New Hampshire Supreme Court.
Flanked by close to 100 law enforcement officials and a bipartisan group of elected officials from across the state, Gov. Kelly Ayotte called for the House to pass a bail reform bill Thursday to make New Hampshire a safer place.
Attorney General John M. Formella and Nashua Police Chief Kevin Rourke announce that Victor Rivera (age 49), of Nashua, New Hampshire has been sentenced for his Second-Degree Murders of Patricia Swett and Matthew Champagne on August 29, 2023.
From advancing efforts to create affordable housing and increasing public safety the Senate worked together in a bipartisan fashion to pass a number of bills Thursday.
Rep. Gregory Hill, R-Northfield, testified in favor of his resolution to declare the Supreme Court’s Claremont education funding decisions are not binding on the legislature Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee.
Resolution Would Make Claremont Education Funding Decisions Moot for Legislature