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Geno Marconi of Stratham pleaded not guilty Wednesday to witness tampering and destroying evidence as director of the state Division of Ports and Harbors and argued for less restrictive bail conditions in Rockingham Superior Court.
NextEra, owner of Seabrook Station, allowed its infrastructure to degrade to the point of risking a nuclear meltdown as part of a scheme to keep competitors at bay, according to a lawsuit brought by clean energy company Avangrid.
Secretary of State David Scanlan said he has not received a letter from the chairman of the Republican party about any rule change to the contrary so 320,000 undeclared voters will not be kept from voting in the Republican presidential primary.
The legislature made quick work of Gov. Chris Sununu’s nine vetoes Thursday, sustaining all nine, although the House overrode one of the governor’s vetoes, but not the one for the Burgess BioPower plant in Berlin.
On Thursday morning we woke up to news of yet another mass shooting—this one very close to home in Lewiston, Maine. My heart goes out to the victims, the survivors, and their families.
Robert Card, 40, of Bowdoin, Maine, is being sought as a person of interest and should be considered armed and dangerous, police said.
GOP activist Karen Testerman said the New Hampshire Republican Party adopted her resolution in January that would block 320,000 undeclared voters from voting in Republican primary elections.
The Manchester Police Department located a motor vehicle crash involving a grey Chevrolet Silverado pickup driven by a 51-year-old male from Manchester who did not sustain injuries from the crash. The pedestrian was identified as a 6-year-old female who sustained serious injuries as a result of this crash.
Murphy maintains he was acting in self defense on April 30 when he had a physical altercation with former employee Nicholas Soter at his restaurant, Murphy’s Diner.
Merrimack County Sheriff David Croft blamed a miscommunication for members of the press being held in the courtroom for several minutes immediately after the guilty verdicts in the Logan Clegg homicide trial Monday.
Immigrants’ rights advocates gathered in the Legislative Office Building lobby Wednesday to criticize Gov. Chris Sununu’s plan to have New Hampshire police look for unauthorized immigrants near the Canadian border and to release a letter asking the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to deny the state’s request for state and local law enforcement officers to be given the authority to enforce immigration laws.
On Wednesday, Gov. Chris Sununu signed Executive Order 2023-06, an order establishing the public higher education task force to study the strategic alignment of public higher education in New Hampshire.
Prentiss was also concerned about conflict of interest for lawmakers who may financially benefit from the EFA program as the eligibility limits go up as is being proposed again this upcoming session.
As House Bill 142 requires a new contract for Burgess BioPower, the Public Utilities Commission can use this as an opportunity to approve a path forward for this important facility that is agreeable to the state’s policymakers and ratepayers.
Members of the media, both local and national, veterans and first-timers got to hear from the state’s top election leader on what happens in the state’s 308 voting precincts before, during and after the votes are cast.
Trevor Frizzell, 24, has pleaded not guilty to a federal charge of assaulting substitute postal worker Paul Burch, 66, as he made his official rounds in the town of Brunswick in the Northeast Kingdom on the afternoon of Oct. 25, 2022.
The State’s Complaint alleges that Meta purposefully designed its popular platforms, Facebook and Instagram, to include addictive features with the goal of enticing and prolonging time children spend scrolling on the platforms.
Jon Stone has been attempting to keep the investigations into his actions as a police officer, and the possible reasoning for his firing from the department, hidden from the public.
Residents interested in attending this hearing on Wednesday evening and looking to utilize MTA’s free bus offering should meet at City Hall Plaza where the bus will leave promptly at 6:30pm.
“We will move the most frequently requested books like the New Hampshire Practice Series out of the library so users will still be able to borrow a limited selection of titles,” said Law Librarian Mary Searles.
Eric Briggs Jr., 33 was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Steven J. McAuliffe to 42 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release. Mr. Briggs pleaded guilty to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances on June 20, 2023.
Recent action by NH Gov Chris Sununu and his Attorney General John Formella to showboat an increase of border patrol enforcement 10 fold and expend $1.4 million of NH tax money is way over the top and unnecessary.