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CONCORD – As the Rainbow Family Gathering peaked on July 4, there were about 2,200 members illegally camping in the White Mountain National Forest near Berlin and Randolph.
Attorneys for Eric Spofford and New Hampshire Public Radio continue to spar over a judge’s order requiring interviews and documents supporting last year’s story that Spofford claims defamed him be turned over to the judge for private review.
The Merrimack woman accused of murdering her five-year-old son, Elijah Lewis, and dumping his body in Massachusetts will soon be able to hear what her ex-boyfriend talked about in jail.
“At this point we are awaiting toxicology results and will not be releasing any more information until they are completed,” Heather Hamel, Manchester police spokesman, said Friday.
Seeking not to upset the traditional extreme provocation defense, a committee of conference members crafted changes to a bill that would prohibit using the “gay panic” defense in a criminal assault or homicide case or other violent crimes.
Attorney General John M. Formella announces that on June 20, 2023, the Hillsborough County-Northern District Grand Jury returned indictments charging David C. Dunn, age 63, of Durham (formerly of Manchester), with four class A felony counts of theft by misapplication of property and four class A felony counts of theft by unauthorized taking or transfer.
By the time Crystal Sorey got sober and began her frantic quest in late 2021 for someone, anyone, to help her find her child, the girl Harmony Montgomery, 5, was already dead.
A day after New England-based white supremacist group NSC-131 tried to intimidate people at a drag queen event in Concord, the group’s Granite State leader is reportedly dead.
Neo-Nazis trying to intimidate patrons and performers at a Concord restaurant failed to stop the scheduled Drag Queen Story Hour this weekend.