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A bill that would exempt 17-year-olds on active military duty or their partners from a new state law banning underage marriage drew emotional testimony from both sides on Tuesday.
A bill that would establish open enrollment in all public schools in the state would be a boom to students and parents, supporters say.
After a five-hour public hearing with the vast majority opposed to the bill that has been before the legislature many times only to fail, the committee Republicans all favored the bill and the Democrats all opposed it.
A report by the New Hampshire Fiscal Policy Institute indicates potential changes to Medicaid — the state-federal health insurance program — could cost the state about half a billion dollars in federal money and likely end the Granite Advantage Program, for the state’s working poor.
The prime sponsor of House Bill 476 filed to withdraw her bill that would ban abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, but Rep. Bob Lynn held a four-hour public hearing Monday on it anyway, then later postponed a committee vote on it.
Former YDC staffer Bradley Asbury is likely going to spend most of the rest of his life in prison after he was sentenced Monday to at least 20 years behind bars for his role in the rape of a child.
At 10:22 a.m. the earthquake hit a little over six miles off York Harbor, Maine, according to USGS. A spokesman for Seabrook Station nuclear power plant said there was no impact from the earthquake.
The Seacoast Artist Association in Exeter prides itself in being about community, and a big part of this community is seniors.
On Friday, the New Hampshire Insurance Department confirmed the resolution of the contractual dispute between St. Joseph Hospital in Nashua and Anthem, New Hampshire’s largest health insurance carrier.