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“I’m relieved that all parties have agreed to a ceasefire that will re-establish calm for the people of both countries, halt a broader conflict, protect civilians in both Lebanon and Israel and allow displaced individuals to soon return to their homes.”
Bradley Asbury’s family gasped and cried in shock when the jury foreman announced two guilty verdicts for his accessory role in the 1998 rape of a child held in the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court will decide if the man convicted of murdering two Dartmouth College professors when he was 17 can be made to serve life without parole.
Concerned at the potential loss of timber tax revenue for its members with carbon “farming” replacing logging in this heavily forested state, the New Hampshire Municipal Association is cautioning the state about agreeing to logging reductions in a 10-year plan on the 146,000-acre Connecticut Lakes Working Forest as part of the state’s easement.
Attorney General John M. Formella issues a Consumer Alert for New Hampshire residents, especially New Hampshire Medicare recipients, warning of scammers posing as Medicare representatives to obtain personal identifying information.
The state has made a confidential deal offer to former Republican Rep. Troy Merner on criminal charges related to moving out of the Lancaster district he was elected to serve in the House, but it contained an “illegal condition,” according to a motion filed by Merner’s attorney William Dolan.
Or they may ignore the quagmire of picking winners and losers with an election looming and leave the mess to the next legislature to clean up.
Rep. Jon Stone’s New Hampshire law enforcement career ended when he threatened to kill fellow police officers in a shooting spree, and murder his chief after raping the chief’s wife and children, all while he was already under scrutiny for his inappropriate relationship with a teen girl, according to the internal investigation reports finally released this week.
Accusing Senate Republicans of “shocking and extreme moves” Friday, Democrats criticized two 14-10 votes in which transgender girls would be prohibited from playing girls public high school and college sports in New Hampshire and one that creates a process for parents across the state to ban books in schools.
Vouchers are all the rage in NH thanks in large part to Education Commissioner Frank Edelblut who promised the cost would be about $3 million in the first two years. It was actually $23 million and 90 percent of that went to parents who were already sending their kids to private or religious schools or homeschooling.
Energy company making significant progress clearing blocked roads and addressing community priorities.
Groups in Texas and New Hampshire say deploying the New Hampshire National Guard to Texas, where 15 New Hampshire soldiers joined Governor Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star this week, wastes tax dollars better spent elsewhere.
They have already made eight trips to war-torn Ukraine. Now, New Hampshire people are gearing up for their 9th aid mission.
With most of Coos County entirely in the path of totality and even the southern part of the state getting in on about 95 percent totality, the solar eclipse on Monday is expected to draw thousands to the Granite State for the afternoon spectacle with a number of events planned across the state.
A bill that would require teachers to fully answer parents’ questions about their child within 10 days with any omission considered a violation of the state teacher code of conduct was passed by the Senate Friday along partisan lines by the Republican majority.
Saying this will require a “multi-day response” to restore power to some 170,000 customers without power, utility crews were calling for help from afar to help them fix the power lines now down across the state from storm damage, while some were digging out from more than a foot of snow, which continued to fall at 4 p.m.
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About 100,000 New Hampshire electric customers were out of power at 8 a.m. and the list was climbing as heavy snow was falling across most of New Hampshire, Thursday during the start of a Nor’easter.
Almost everyone testifying on the changes proposed to the state’s education minimum standards Wednesday had concerns it would exacerbate the current inequity of educational opportunities for students in the state.
* Heavy snow accumulations and snowfall rates are likely,
especially tonight into Thursday morning.
Is Timothy Verrill the cold-blooded killer who brutally murdered his friend Christine Sullivan and her house guest Jenna Pellegrini while in a paranoid, drug-fueled rage, or is he a pawn in a violent game played by Sullivan’s drug trafficking partner and angry ex-boyfriend Dean Smoronk?
Announcing he will not run for re-election Wednesday is District 4 Executive Councilor Ted Gatsas, a Manchester Republican and its former mayor who also served as State Senate President for a time.
New Hampshire State Sen. Becky Whitley, D-Hopkinton, has announced she is forming an exploratory committee for a possible run for Congress in the Second Congressional District, joining a growing field.
Major, long duration spring snowstorm will impact the
region Wednesday afternoon through Thursday
evening.