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Gov. Kelly Ayotte is among 26 Republican governors who sent a joint letter to congressional leaders expressing support for President-elect Donald Trump’s proposed federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative.
Thursday was a day of new beginnings at the State House when leaders past, present and possibly future gathered at the State House, warm from the bitter cold and blowing snow outside, for the inauguration of the first female Republican governor of the state and the first new governor in eight years.
There has never been a better example of the need for term limits than demonstrated recently in the mud wrestling over the federal budget.
The state’s five-member Executive Council was sworn in to office Thursday with two new members and a new Governor at the head of the table.
Karen LeMoine testified Wednesday she feared being raped or worse after she complained about the treatment of incarcerated children when she worked at the Youth Development Center in Manchester for two years until 1991.
The identities of several more police officers with credibility problems are now public in the latest update to the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule, but details about the alleged misconduct are still lacking.
MERRIMACK – On Wednesday, the EPA made a historic announcement of new legally enforceable drinking water standards targeting per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as forever chemicals.
“I have made my life’s work advocating for others,” he said during a public hearing on his nomination before the state’s Executive Council on Wednesday. “I can do this job and do it well.”
The Executive Council was told at least 60,000 vehicles above the normal flow passed through the tolls for the Solar Eclipse, and approved $21 million for the purchase of Granite Place South from developer Stephen M. Duprey of Concord.
David Meehan’s lawyer told jurors how his already troubled life became part of an “inhuman atrocity” when sent at age 14 to the state’s youth detention center in Manchester where he was raped hundreds of times, beaten and locked in solitary confinement for months on end from 1995 to 1999.
Timothy Verrill was found guilty on two counts of second-degree murder for the brutal deaths of Christine Sullivan and Jenna Pellegrini, while the jury found him not guilty of first-degree murder charges.
A House Education subcommittee on administrative rules raised some fundamental concerns about the new proposal for the state’s minimum standards for public school approval.
The complaint was made by Col. Kevin Jordan, chief of the department’s law enforcement unit, who alleges that Fish and Game Commissioner Susan G. Price of Moultonborough violated state law related to “prohibited acts.”
When Claremont Police Officer Jon Stone was fired in 2006, before his union fought and altered his official exit, the Police Standards and Training Council was informed about Stone’s alleged rape and murder threats, and his inappropriate relationship with a teen girl.
The Vittums accepted over $175,000 from at least 13 consumers upon promises to provide construction services.
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.