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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.
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It’s been a relentless year of reporting, and today we’re taking the time to highlight a few of the stories that impacted New Hampshire.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
To speed up deportations, the Trump administration plans to hold 80,000 immigrants in warehouses across the country, including in Merrimack, NH, according to a story published Wednesday in the Washington Post.
Temple Adath Yeshurun volunteers continued their Brotherhood’s annual tradition of delivering food to local police and fire stations on Christmas Day and staffing the information desk at Elliot Hospital on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.
“It bears repeating that President Zelenskyy agreed to a Christmas truce, but Putin declined, yet he directs soldiers to continue to commit brutal crimes of aggression on one of Christianity’s holiest days.
The latest information released by the US Department of Justice this week reveal new details about how Ghislaine Maxwell purchased a mountaintop residence here and what happened the day she was finally arrested.
A dispositional conference in Merrimack County Superior Court is scheduled for Tristan Anderson of Hooksett Jan. 8, 2026, after he was indicted for allegedly threatening Gov. Kelly Ayotte.
There is snow on the ground and Christmas decorations and music abound. I haven’t been on the water for six weeks, and instead of sugar plums dancing in my head, I have Brook Trout. They are beautiful in their fall colors.
Attorney General John M. Formella announces the identities of the Manchester Police Department officers who discharged their firearms during a shooting incident in the early morning hours of December 6, 2025, in Manchester, New Hampshire, which resulted in the death of 24-year-old Nickenley Turenne.
Broke and low in 1981, A Christmas gift to my Grandmother and Grandfather yielded a treasure trove of life memories. Here’s one of them.
This loss forces us to reengage in the conversation to address the longstanding and deeply troubling pattern of police violence that continues to disproportionately impact Black communities.
When Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks went before the Executive Council this spring seeking approval on a $2 million TASER lease deal, she failed to mention the fact the weapons had already been delivered the year before.
The preliminary investigation revealed that a 2025 Subaru Outback, driven by Joseph J. Lavoie, 58, of Nashua, had been traveling along Route 101 eastbound near Exit 3 when, for reasons that remain under investigation, Lavoie lost control of the Subaru, resulting in the Subaru drifting off the right side of the highway, traveling along a grassy embankment, and ultimately striking the cement bridge abutment at the Old Candia Road overpass.
And, we have some special projects in the works for the new year — which, with your help, we hope to make a reality.
Wayne had a passion for building businesses and Pats Peak was one of the many that he was involved with.
The legislation prohibits the executive branch from spending any federal funds on the use of military force inside Venezuela or against Venezuelan forces, including remote or intermittent strikes, unless Congress passes a specific Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF).
The suspect in the Brown University mass shooting that killed two students and wounded nine Saturday and the murder of an MIT professor Monday has been found dead in a Salem, N.H. storage unit, according to law enforcement officials.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill, D-Lebanon, has been cleared of allegations by the Republican State Committee that she may have inappropriately “electioneered” on behalf of a political law firm in her official capacity.