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Facing a potentially debilitating number of civil trials that could consume the court for decades, Rockingham Superior Court Judge Andrew Schulman is pushing forward with a schedule for the 801 Sununu Youth Services Center – formerly called YDC – abuse cases on his docket.
It took a year, but childcare centers in New Hampshire qualifying for state funds have finally received them. The legislature appropriated $15 million for hiring and retention help for childcare workers.
The Joint Legislative Fiscal Committee approved the request for one-time support for eight Federally Qualified Health Centers and one similar center to address the continuing impact from the COVID pandemic.
Legislative budget writers Friday approved changes to the Youth Development Center Settlement Fund program to align with legislation passed this year to make it more attractive to victims of sexual and physical abuse from about 1990 to 2000 at the Manchester facility.
State attorneys reiterate arguments rejected by a Superior Court Judge in declaring the Statewide Education Property Tax unconstitutional in their legal brief to the state Supreme Court filed Wednesday evening appealing the lower court’s decision.
The state is paying an out-of-state law firm to vet claims by victims who were abused as children while incarcerated at the Sununu Youth Services Center in Manchester – then called YDC – out of the same $160 million the legislature approved to compensate victims through the settlement fund.
After more than an hour of fine-tuning the proposed overhaul of the rules governing the state education minimum standards, the State Board of Education unanimously adopted its controversial proposal Wednesday.
Dr. Stephanie L. Simek, Washington state’s expert on large game carnivores, including cougars and wolves, answered questions of the state’s Executive Council Tuesday as she is the governor’s pick to run the New Hampshire Fish and Game Department as its new executive director.
The first of two scheduled sex assault trials against former Grafton County House of Corrections Officer Max Fournier is cancelled as prosecutors have dropped two of the three original charges.