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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.
Last week I returned from Key West with a new baseball hat and the flu. The hat is cornflower blue, originates from the restaurant Blue Heaven and the flu is dressed in Lily Pulitzer, has a gorgeous tan and sports a big pink coral necklace.
About a dozen people protested House Bills that would permit classification of people based on biological sex under certain circumstances, and restrict the use of certain public and private facilities on the basis of sex Friday at a House Judiciary Committee hearing at Granite Place.
It was a heartwarming article in the New York Times, which takes pride in being our nation’s newspaper of record. A restaurant in Syria is going out of its way to serve kosher meals to Jewish visitors.
Republican senators passed what Democrats call a “book ban” bill and another that requires teachers to notify parents within 10 days upon written questions about their child’s behavior and activities in school.
As hard as they tried, Democrats could not get a single Republican vote in the Senate to pass a number of initiatives offered, including bills to help support infrastructure development for new housing, allow for redistricting maps to be developed before public hearings, and a number of bills that would better monitor oversight of Education Funding Accounts.
Prohibiting the teaching of critical race theory or LGBTQ+ ideologies and other alleged Marxist derived educational theories in public schools was initially approved by the House Thursday.
House lawmakers Thursday defeated an attempt to repeal the state’s immunization requirements for children to attend public schools or day-care programs.
The New Hampshire Judicial Conduct Committee says it is still investigating state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi even though she retired Feb. 12 at the age of 70, pleaded no contest last October to a single misdemeanor charge in a plea agreement and was allowed to return to work.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Wednesday that President Trump, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and ICE have engaged with governors across the country, including Gov. Kelly Ayotte, about the need for more immigrant detention warehouses, including the one planned for Merrimack.
In a victory for academic freedom and education equity, the U.S. Department of Education conceded the end of its February 14, 2025, “Dear Colleague” directive that sought to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts in schools and higher education institutions nationwide.
Hospital executives in Coos County would have their pay frozen with no bonuses or increases for 18 months if they lay off 10 or more workers in a department under a bill heard Wednesday by the state Senate Health and Human Services Committee.
MIKE MARLAND: “I am re-launching my Up On The Hill comic that comments on New Hampshire politics and the abomination that is Trump along with his cohorts and his MAGA minions.”
An attempt to regulate AI in the state is a bridge too far for the businesses that provide telecom, internet and similar services.
A bill that would hold that parents have equal rights with equal time was heard by the House Children and Family Law Committee Tuesday along with another bill that would prohibit criminal matters from being adjudicated in family court.
The House Committee on Housing held a public hearing Tuesday for House Bill 1726, which would direct state agencies to identify and dispose of surplus property for the development of affordable housing units.
A proposed change to civil rights law was opposed as potentially weakening the state statute at a public Feb. 12 before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Steven Tendo, the Ugandan pastor and asylum-seeker who was living and working in Vermont but is now being held by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Strafford County Jail, was initially denied medication by the facility, though things are getting better there, according to his attorney Christopher Worth.
Police are investigating the suspicious death of a man in Manchester after responding Monday afternoon to a report of a man with an apparent gunshot wound, according to a news release from Attorney General John Formella.
Brad Asbury’s appeal of his Sununu Youth Services Center, also known as YDC, sex assault conviction is on hold after the New Hampshire Supreme Court gave him the green light to pursue a new trial in Manchester.