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Virgil Bossom watched in horror as serious allegations of abuse against staff at the Sununu Youth Development Center was ignored, the alleged abusers assigned to investigate their own abuse, and the children who brought the complaints disciplined for speaking out.
Rep. Karen Ebel, D-New London, speaks in favor of her bill to ban products that have had PFAs intentionally added to them at Thursday’s House session.
On Thursday, by a 14-9 vote, the Senate passed Senate Bill 461 along party lines which would require the state to collect data on the date, place, age, state of residence for the woman, method used, medication dispensed and gestational age of the fetus at an abortion.
The Executive Council was told at least 60,000 vehicles above the normal flow passed through the tolls for the Solar Eclipse, and approved $21 million for the purchase of Granite Place South from developer Stephen M. Duprey of Concord.
David Meehan’s lawyer told jurors how his already troubled life became part of an “inhuman atrocity” when sent at age 14 to the state’s youth detention center in Manchester where he was raped hundreds of times, beaten and locked in solitary confinement for months on end from 1995 to 1999.
Attorney General John M. Formella issues a Consumer Alert for New Hampshire residents, especially New Hampshire Medicare recipients, warning of scammers posing as Medicare representatives to obtain personal identifying information.
It’s been a “rocky” time at the state’s new Hampstead Hospital Residential Treatment Facility in recent weeks but state officials think things are improving.
Cannabis legalization could potentially occur this session Gov. Chris Sununu said Wednesday provided the Senate passes a measure that is close to what he has in mind.
A healthcare cyberattack one month ago that impacted half of all medical claims in the United States was the subject of a press conference Tuesday at the New Hampshire Insurance Department with the department urging providers to call them because “we can help you.”