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Nashua lawyer locks in $1.25M DUI settlement
The Telegraph - New Hampshire
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Attorney Bradford Coates of Nashua recently secured a $1.25 million settlement stemming from a DUI crash on Litchfield Road in Londonderry in March 2023. Courtesy photo SIGN UP TO CONTINUE Print Subscriber? Sign Up for Full Access! Unlimited...
Mass. Legislature proposal to hike bar advocates’ pay a ‘slap in the face,’ lawyer says
MassLive - Massachusetts
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July 30, 2025
Editor’s note: This story was updated at 8:50 p.m. July 30, 2025, to add a Lowell district judge’s order to pay three bar advocates $100 an hour to represent three defendants. Private defense attorneys in Massachusetts blasted the state...
Republican Senate candidate pushes antisemitic trope in attack on Chuck Schumer
Raw Story
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July 30, 2025
Former Republican Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown, amid his latest bid to run for Senate in New Hampshire, laid into Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in a speech flagged by American Bridge Senate research director Danny Abbas in a post...
Downtown Lawrence workers, already hit hard by parking enforcement, lament potential rate increases
The Lawrence Times - Kansas
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July 31, 2025
Share this post or save for later Downtown workers encounter more roadblocks than almost anyone seeking to park in the area. Now, the City of Lawrence is considering proposals to increase the cost of finding a spot around Mass Street. The city’s...
Judge Rules Life Without Parole for Juveniles Cruel and Unusual in Dartmouth Murders Case
InDepth NH - New Hampshire
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July 31, 2025
By DAMIEN FISHER, InDepthNH.org Robert Tulloch is closer to a new sentence for his role in the double murder of an Upper Valley couple after Grafton Superior Court Judge Leonard MacLeod ruled that the New Hampshire Constitution bars juveniles from...
New Hampshire rejects Trump request to release voter database
The Center Square
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July 28, 2025
(The Center Square) – New Hampshire's top election official has rebuffed a request from the Trump administration to turn over a statewide voter list, citing a state law declaring the data "private and confidential” and not subject to public...
Canadian visits to N.H. continue to drop while Governor Ayotte withdraws nomination for state’s economic leader
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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CONCORD, N.H. — Canadians angered by President Trump’s tariffs and talk of the 51st state appear to be holding firm on travel boycotts to the Granite State. In New Hampshire, that means Canadian visits are still lagging about 30 percent behind...
Very hot and humid Tuesday in New Hampshire; storms possible Wednesday
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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July 29, 2025
Very hot and humid Tuesday in New Hampshire; storms possible Wednesday Another hot day of weather on this Tuesday as temperatures get back into the 90s this afternoon. We are tracking the chance for thunderstorms through the middle part of the...
Lt. Governor's Office receives Dept. of Justice request for Utah voter information
KUTV - Utah
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SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The Utah Lt Governor's Office confirmed to 2News it's received a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice seeking state voter information. Utah is among the latest states to face the request amid a DOJ inquiry into...
This Day in History: August 1, 1934 and 1961
WCAX - Vermont
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August 1, 2025
BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - A border dispute was settled on this day in history back in 1934. We all know the Connecticut River separates Vermont from New Hampshire. The exact boundary line was in dispute even before Vermont was a state. It was not...
Slow driver in the left lane? It might be illegal in New Hampshire
The Gardner News - Massachusetts
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NH law requires drivers to stay in the right lane except when passing, avoiding a hazard, on a roadway with three marked traffic lanes, or on a one-way road. Slower traffic must also keep right. This means that a vehicle about to be overtaken by...
Epstein files must be released by Trump administration under obscure law, Democrats contend
Iowa Capital Dispatch
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July 30, 2025
WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Democrats on Wednesday began charting a little-known legal path to force President Donald Trump’s administration to release the investigative files on the now deceased Florida sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein. In...
Sig Sauer continues to defend safety of P320 following death of airman on U.S. military base
Vermont Public Radio
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July 30, 2025
As the U.S. Air Force continues to investigate the death of a 21-year-old airman in an incident involving his Sig Sauer-made pistol — and law enforcement agencies and weapons ranges across the country take steps to ban use of the gun — the gun...
Sen. Ruben Gallego's New Hampshire visit pulls another page from presidential playbook
KPNX 12 News - Arizona
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July 29, 2025
The Arizona senator added a trip to the first 2028 primary state to summer travels after the Iowa State Fair visit. PHOENIX — Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego is stoking speculation about a potential 2028 run for president after adding New Hampshire to...
Franklin has second year of grant revoked by federal government
Concord Monitor - New Hampshire
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July 30, 2025
Members of the joint finance committee of Franklin Public Schools look at a chart during a meeting on July 29. Emilia Wisniewski—Monitor staff A nearly $500,000 federal grant the Franklin School District used to fund mental health and social...
Ayotte’s pick for NH education commissioner vows to avoid politics
Seacoastonline - New Hampshire
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Gov. Kelly Ayotte’s choice for New Hampshire's next education commissioner indicated she’d take a different approach than outgoing Commissioner Frank Edelblut, whose embrace of divisive political issues often made him a lightning rod. During her...
In Maine, the next generation of Democrats emerges to succeed Gov. Janet Mills
The 19th News
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August 1, 2025
A crowded field of Democratic candidates are vying to replace term-limited Democratic Gov. Janet Mills in Maine. Secretary of State Shenna Bellows; former Senate President Troy Jackson; Hannah Pingree, the former Maine state House speaker, former...
From social districts to bathroom beers, new laws affect New Hampshire’s hospitality industry
The Laconia Daily Sun - New Hampshire
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A number of new laws enacted in New Hampshire this year will alter the state’s notoriously restrictive bar and liquor laws. Here’s a look at some of the legislation that could affect the hospitality landscape in the months to come. Tightened...
Ayotte signs bill to prohibit surprise billing and set across-the-board pricing for ambulances
New Hampshire Bulletin
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August 1, 2025
Gov. Kelly Ayotte signed Senate Bill 245 on top of a stretcher Thursday morning. “I have not signed a bill on a stretcher (before),” she quipped. “This is a good circumstance to do it. I wouldn’t want to do it in others, but if I had to, I would....
Caitlin Davis confirmed as top N.H. education official, drawing praise for lacking a ‘political agenda’
The Boston Globe - Massachusetts
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Caitlin D. Davis secured final approval Wednesday to become New Hampshire’s next top education official, as the state’s five-member Executive Council voted unanimously to confirm her nomination for the job. Davis received glowing endorsements from...