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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.
Republican Gov. Kelly Ayotte weighed in with members of the media on the subjects of campus carry and open enrollment – along with commenting on nuclear power and broad-based taxes – on Wednesday after a long Executive Council meeting.
The Attorney General’s Office has launched an investigation into the allegations that there has been abuse of children by state employees at the Sununu Youth Services Center, the governor and state Executive Council were told Wednesday.
After nearly two hours of testimony in support of a national battery recycling program for New Hampshire, the Senate Ways and Means Committee decided the bill ought to be killed.
The autopsy examination confirmed that Mrs. Dionne’s cause of death was strangulation and her manner of death was homicide.
A bill that would prohibit public universities and colleges in the state from regulating the possession of firearms on campus brought a huge crowd to the Senate Judiciary Committee public hearing Tuesday.
Officers of the Laconia Police Department were called to a home on Old Prescott Hill Road this afternoon in Laconia, New Hampshire, where they discovered an adult female resident deceased inside the home.
But now, it’s time for all of that tactile precipitation to depart, to go away, time for shovels and ice scrapers to disappear.
Officers with the Laconia Police Department went to conduct a welfare check at an address on South Main Street in Laconia, New Hampshire, this morning when they discovered an adult male resident deceased inside the home.
The panel will include representatives of NH Public Radio, NH PBS as well as InDepthNH.org, NH Bulletin and the NH Gazette.
State Rep. Ellen Read, D-Newmarket, said she is considering her legal options after House Speaker Sherman Packard banned her on non-session days from the House chamber, ante-room and gallery at the State House because of her “shouting” and using profanity Tuesday outside a Senate committee hearing on her bill to provide sexual assault victims their rights.
Open enrollment in public schools was fast tracked by Republicans in the House Education Policy and Administration Committee Monday despite numerous questions of Democrats on what the bill means and what it would actually do in the state.
Fifteen-year-old Rachael Garden was last seen on March 22, 1980, while walking home from Rowe’s Corner Market on Pond Street in Newton, New Hampshire and has not been heard from since.
Newington, spends 29 percent of its total property taxes on schools; Sunapee, 52 percent; Newport, 59 percent, and Charlestown, 69 percent.
At 7:08 p.m. Saturday, April 11, 2026, the State Police Communications Unit received a report that an individual fell into the Merrimack River from the railroad track bridge in the area of Riverside Street and Main Street in Hooksett.
The Department of Homeland Security has still not ruled out potentially opening an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in New Hampshire, following now-Secretary Markwayne Mullin’s refusal to reject the idea during his confirmation hearing.
A New York man and Old Dutch Mustard Co., a mustard and vinegar manufacturing company, were sentenced today in federal court for knowingly discharging acidic water into the Souhegan River, U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan announces.
All sessions are approximately 90 minutes in length. Older adults, caregivers, family members, and other community members concerned with combatting this growing problem are welcome to attend.
Chuck Miles, an abuse survivor and board member of Justice for YDC Victims said: “The Child Advocate’s report confirms New Hampshire continues to fail to protect its most vulnerable children. I was one of many children abused in State custody because of its institutional failures.”