Andrew Wood
Former Hancock Police Chief Charged With Theft
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Former Hancock Police Chief Andrew Wood, fired for allegedly double dipping on his timecards, is now charged with felonies for theft.
Distant Dome: Willfully and Knowingly Making a Mess of Public Education
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If you watched the House session Thursday, you had to realize the message the Republican majority is sending on public education.
Related: Distant Dome: This Is How Democracy Dies
Carbon Sequestration, Sobriety Check Refusal Punishment Now Part of Parental Rights Bill
A measure to impose a moratorium on creating any new carbon sequestration forest farms in the state and the formation of a study committee on the impacts to the municipal timber tax revenue is more likely to pass into law after Littleton Republican Sen. David Rochefort got his colleagues to include it in a non-related parental rights bill.
House Votes New Requirements for Absentee Voting
The House made it more difficult to vote by absentee ballot passing several bills that will require more information to vote in absentia Thursday.
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Education Freedom Accounts Expanded by House
NH Senate Passes $15.7 Billion Budget Without Support from Democrats
Identical Parental Rights Bills on Way to Governor for Her Expected Signature
DHHS Expands Eligibility for Monkeypox Vaccine
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The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) is updating and expanding monkeypox vaccine eligibility criteria to make it easier for people at risk for monkeypox to be vaccinated, and to make it easier for healthcare providers to vaccinate patients they believe are at risk.
Business & Economy
Checklist Purge Removes Almost 250,000 N.H. Voters
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Figures released after the state primary election by the Secretary of State’s Office indicate that almost one-quarter of a million voters have been removed from checklists across the state since the 2020 general election.
Annie Kuster
44 Days Until Elections, Buttigieg Helps Dems Get The Party Started
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told a sold-out fundraising dinner of 700 Democrats Saturday that the midterm elections present an opportunity to change the future and Republicans have given everyone the most important reason to get out and vote on Nov. 8.
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Bear Strolls Downtown Manchester, Then Relocated by Fish and Game
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Manchester Police responded to Bronstein Park on Hanover Street Saturday for a report of a black bear in the park.
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Late Summer Fishing in N.H.
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When my college friends, Linda and John Duncan invited me up to Alton to see their new building site, I packed my truck with my fishing gear and headed north.
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Musing on Books as Markers of Travel and Time
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Alas, for me? I don’t mark the passage of time by lovers or clothing styles, rather, by what I was reading.
Business & Economy
6 New COVID-19 Deaths, 24 Hospitalized, Outbreaks by Institution Name: Weekly Report
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On Thursday, September 22, 2022, the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) announced 1,318 new positive COVID-19 test results between Thursday, September 15 and Wednesday, September 21.
Business & Economy
Ex-Granite Recovery Centers CEO Sues for Defamation; NHPR Defends Reporting
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New Hampshire Public Radio is defending its reporting on former Granite Recovery Centers CEO Eric Spofford who sued the station, its news director and two reporters for a story and podcast accusing him of sexual misconduct.
Courts & Corrections
AG Issues Cease and Desist Order to N.H. Democratic Party Over Mailers
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Some of the concerns raised about these mailers are that the mailer states, “You have a history of requesting absentee ballots” when the voter has not voted by absentee ballot in the past.
Chris Sununu
Ryan Guptill’s Judicial Nomination Lauded at Hearing
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Ryan Guptill, the governor’s nominee to become a Circuit Court judge, went to a public hearing Friday with questions posed about how he would handle the backlog of cases, involuntary emergency admission hearings, and the lack of public defenders slowing the process.
Barry Glennon
State Investor Guide Published for First Time To Help Avoid Fraud
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Investor literacy is the goal of a new state initiative aimed at educating the general public on how to safely grow their money.
Courts & Corrections
Priest Convicted of Sex Abuse Claimed Ex-Police Detective McLaughlin Erased Tapes
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Gordon MacRae, the Catholic priest now serving a state prison sentence after he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting four boys, once claimed in a lawsuit that the evidence against him was destroyed by a zealous investigator out to railroad him.
Business & Economy
Warmington Tells Sununu He’s Misleading Public on N.H. Abortion Ban
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Medicaid reimbursement rate increases for birthing units around the state were approved Wednesday as Executive Councilor Cinde Warmington spoke of the long-term damage being done to maternal health-care since the state’s new abortion ban went into effect.
Business & Economy
Sununu and Sherman Disagree On Education Funding at Forum on Disability Policy
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The state’s two gubernatorial candidates were interviewed separately in a town hall-style forum on state disability policy Tuesday and took separate approaches to Education Freedom Accounts among other issues.
Courts & Corrections
AG Alleges Two Teens Caused Threatening, Race-Motivated Damage at Weare School
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Attorney General John M. Formella announces the initiation of enforcement actions by the New Hampshire Department of Justice Civil Rights Unit against two seventeen-year-old male juveniles from Weare, NH, for violating the New Hampshire Civil Rights Act.
Brian Tucker
Judge Rules Nashua Ex-Cop Can Use His Own Name in ‘Laurie List’ Lawsuit
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A judge has granted retired Nashua police officer Anthony Pivero’s motion to litigate in his own name the lawsuit he filed seeking to have his name removed from the Laurie List, which is now called the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule.
Courts & Corrections
Court Orders Hearing on AG, State Police Fault for Withheld Evidence in Double Murder
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The state Supreme Court ruled charges against accused double murder Timothy Verrill will not be dismissed because of withheld evidence that led to a mistrial.
Courts & Corrections
Records Show Keene Police’s Famed Ex-Detective Caught in Lies
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The records obtained by InDepthNH.org indicate there are more internal affairs reports dealing with James McLaughlin, which the city has so far not provided.
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Martha’s Vineyard Exploitation Reminiscent of Earlier Case in New Hampshire
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On a hot summer day in 1962, five Black men from New Orleans stepped off a bus in Concord, New Hampshire, where they hoped to find employment. Their tickets had been purchased by white segregationists who staged the “Reverse Freedom Rides” in an attempt to embarrass northern liberals.