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New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella announces that officials from the Attorney General’s Office are responding to an officer-involved shooting in Manchester, New Hampshire, that occurred on Maple Street during the overnight hours.
As a result, the alleged victim lost four teeth and suffered head trauma, including lacerations above the right eyebrow and back of the head.
Before the session ended, the House voted to put reproductive rights into statute, remove the criminal and civil penalties in the state’s 24-week abortion ban approved two years ago, and killed bills aimed at further limiting women’s reproductive rights.
In a unified message of support for healthcare for the state’s most vulnerable, the Senate unanimously passed a bill to make its nine-year Medicaid expansion program permanent and approved extending Medicaid coverage for young moms from 60 days to a year on Thursday.
A battle over the criteria for sending children to the Sununu Youth Services Center took more than an hour to resolve before the House approved spending $21 million on a new facility.
The House Wednesday overturned its House Executive Departments and Administration Committee and approved May 3 as the day to memorialize the “Old Stone Face” that graced the side of Cannon Mountain but crashed down May 3 20 years ago.
The House failed to reach the needed threshold to send a proposed constitutional amendment to the Senate that would allow state tax dollars to be used for religious schools.
Days before he was confirmed by the Executive Council for another term as the state’s Department of Safety Commissioner, Robert Quinn quietly met with the man who was causing him a P.R. headache.
The House twice failed to pass two versions of a parental bill of rights, which is still barely alive and could be reconsidered later.