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But making sense of the overall numbers is difficult as the state Democratic Party and several news outlets have pointed to discrepancies on the state Department of Health and Human Services’ COVID-19 website.
Ryder Winegar, 34, of Amherst, pleaded guilty on Friday in federal court to six counts of threatening members of Congress and one count of transmitting interstate threatening communications, Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley announced.
State police will now have body and dash cameras and a whole new information system to support them after the Executive Council unanimously approved a new contract on Wednesday.
Earlier Friday night, in a brief submitted to the U.S. First Court of Appeals, the United States Department of Justice took a strong position in favor of the plaintiffs in the case of Cushing et al v Packard, repudiating the doctrine of legislative immunity, as Speaker Sherman Packard is seeking to use it in this case to avoid the state’s responsibility to obey the law.
As he signaled last month, Gov. Chris Sununu vetoed a bill that would change the date of the state primary from September to August.
As the number of COVID-19 cases continues to climb along with the fast-spreading Delta variant, Gov. Chris Sununu is not changing his position on masks and his spokesman complained that the mask news out of Washington is confusing.
Katie Duran of Wolfeboro was beaming and said she almost accidentally signed House Bill 581 just after Gov. Chris Sununu in celebration of a measure that places the burden of proof in special education on the system rather than the parent.
Mark Sanborn, in his new role with the state Department of Energy, asked those attending a hearing at the Pease International Tradeport for their concerns about a proposed offshore wind project in the Gulf of Maine.
Sandwich and the southwestern New Hampshire town of Acworth have signed agreements with NH Broadband to cooperate in building a high-speed fiber-optic broadband network in both towns.