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A teen girl was repeatedly raped by the care giver who was paid by the state, and the state employees who were supposed to oversee her case repeatedly covered for the abusers, according to a new lawsuit filed in Merrimack Superior Court.
Gov. Kelly Ayotte said the state has a very important role to play nationally as being the first in the nation to vote for a president and hopes the election for Secretary of State is not politicized for the sake of that role.
With the cost of home heating products soaring and federal assistance not keeping up, Gov. Kelly Ayotte told Executive Councilors she has joined with all the other governors of New England to seek a $3 billion increase nationwide for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program ahead of winter.
The elections in New Hampshire and nationally this month were seismic in their impact, but I believe they had different motivators.
A Berlin Police Department internal review of the Marisol Fuentes murder, made public Friday afternoon, details the lapses in official police response in the days leading up to the grisly shooting.
After signing the Civil Rights Act in 1964, Lyndon Johnson remarked that the Democratic Party had just lost the South for the next generation. He was wrong about that. They lost the South for the next three generations, and counting.
On this day I needed a little more time to unwind so I headed up to my favorite little river that runs into Lake Winnipesaukee to see if I could get into a late arriving spawning trout.
Hours after the House voted to send Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s priority bill to interim study, the Senate salvaged the bill to fight for another round.
The House Thursday sent a bill to interim study that would have required insurers to cover a greater array of mental health services for minors.
The House Thursday failed to approve a proposed constitutional amendment that would prohibit an income tax in the state.
The Senate approved the creation of a site evaluation committee for landfills, a bill one teachers union calls “censorship in the classroom,” and a day care tax credit for businesses, among others on Thursday.
The House Thursday passed yet another bill to ban books and other materials in public schools as well as a bill mandating educators answer almost all parents’ questions regarding their children.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
The Senate has passed a bill that would study campus carry of firearms on public campuses despite opposition, while the House voted down an attempt to resurrect the original bill allowing open carry on public colleges campuses.
Some people are upset by a move by legislators that would add an amendment prohibiting gun restrictions on college campuses to a House Bill that requires insurance coverage for adult amputee prosthetics.
For hundreds of years we English speakers have come up with countless terms of abuse for each other—one of the more fertile sectors of the language—and a surprising number of them are based on urban scorn for rural folk.
The Sanborn Mills Farm complex of agricultural and mill buildings and conserved landscape in Loudon, brought back to life by Colin and Paula Cabot’s commitment to preservation, were among the outstanding leaders and preservation projects honored by the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance.
U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Susan Collins (R-ME) are leading the New Hampshire and Maine Congressional delegations in calling for the Federal Labor Relations Authority (FLRA) to provide an explanation for its refusal to comply with recent court orders and process an Unfair Labor Practice charge (ULP) filed by the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Metal Trades Council on behalf of its members.
As prominent New Hampshire Libertarian Jeremy Kauffman mounts an effort to dissolve the national Libertarian Party, he’s also dealing with a legal drama for his alleged racist behavior in a grocery store parking lot.
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Reflecting the spirit of New Hampshire’s residents, we found Granite Staters to be deeply engaged, invested, and passionate about how the State Budget, and decisions made by our lawmakers in Concord, impact our everyday lives and communities.
A seven-member solid waste site evaluation committee could be created in the state to evaluate applications for new solid waste facilities.