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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.
Holding her electronics benefit transfer card in one hand – which now has a balance of zero dollars – and with her driver’s license in the other, she sat in her Honda among hundreds who lined up in their vehicles five rows abreast at the NH Technical Institute parking lot Thursday to wait her turn at getting some of the state’s expanded food assistance in boxes loaded into cars.
A new chapter has begun at Ragged Mountain Resort with the completion of its sale to SF Mountain Co, LLC (SFMC), a group of local investors with lifelong ties to the mountain.
The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.
The New Hampshire Department of Justice is reviewing Chief Justice Gordon MacDonald and the personnel moves that netted his former assistant a $50,000 payout.
A proposal to allow the state to appoint administrators for financially troubled school districts had a cool reception at a public hearing Wednesday.
The House Education Policy and Administration Committee on Wednesday revived parts of a bill banning “obscene” materials in schools that Gov. Kelly Ayotte had vetoed in July, by inserting some of its language into a Senate bill.
Randy Ball spent decades bound up in faith, fantasy, denial, and fear before he was ready to confront the childhood sexual abuse he suffered from Fr. Karl Dowd at Camp Fatima.
By just 14 votes, Berlin voters selected Republican Marc Tremblay over Corinne Cascadden, a Democrat, as their state Representative in a special election Tuesday that could still be recounted.
Dragged down by interest and dividends tax refunds for the repealed levy, state revenues for October were $12 million less than the revenue plan at $142.5 million.
Bradley Cook, 74, of Hampton has filed a notice of intent to plead guilty and accept a fully negotiated plea agreement with a $1,200 fine and no jail time in connection with his testimony before a grand jury investigating then-Ports and Harbors Director Geno Marconi, who also accepted a plea deal just four days ago.
407 summonses were issued by the New Hampshire State Police to drivers for violations of Sherrill’s Law during a weeklong enforcement initiative around the state.
A reader suggested I write a column about words referring to nature and ecology. That struck me as a good idea, because many such words have interesting histories and connections to other words, and some have been recruited for ideological warfare.
Superior Court Judge Daniel St. Hilaire recused himself Monday from hearing a lawsuit YDC victims filed against the state, Gov. Kelly Ayotte and Attorney General John Formella over changes in the YDC Settlement Fund, but not because their attorney filed a motion asking him to disclose whether he applied for a state Supreme Court judgeship.
CONCORD – With $56,000 in a reward and a new set of eyes on the state’s expanded cold case unit investigating, members of the family of Roberta Dionne Miller, 54, of Gilford said Monday they have new hope that the person who committed the crime will finally be brought to justice 15 years after she was shot multiple times in her home.
Today, Governor Kelly Ayotte announced mobile food pantries for SNAP recipients impacted by the federal government shutdown will be available starting Wednesday, November 5. Governor Ayotte also encouraged Granite Staters to help their neighbors in need by making a donation to the New Hampshire Food Bank.
The deceased victim has been identified as Jillian Collins, age 37, of Concord, New Hampshire. An autopsy was conducted by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. The Office determined that the cause of Ms. Collins’ death was gunshot wound, and the manner of death was homicide.
Today we’re kicking off our biggest fundraiser of the year: NewsMatch, a nationwide campaign to support nonprofit journalism. There’s never been a more critical time to protect independent newsrooms like ours — newsrooms that provide an essential public service to New Hampshire.
While the state has quickly approved $2 million in emergency funding to enhance the work of the New Hampshire Food Bank, a Roman Catholic Charity, and its food pantry affiliates, most advocates call the effort a band-aid when far more will be needed to ensure New Hampshire citizens do not go hungry in a prolonged shutdown.
The New York sex abuse lawsuit filed against Manchester Bishop Peter Libasci is getting dismissed weeks after the case was sent to mediation.
Considered the first of its kind in the nation to help veterans and first responders in need, Gov. Kelly Ayotte and the state’s five-member Executive Council had breakfast Wednesday at the recently opened Easter Seals NH Military & Veterans Campus at the former Daniel Webster homestead off Route 3.