CONCORD — New Hampshire’s Democratic congressional delegation announced that the state will get more than $700,000 in federal funding to help youth suicide prevention efforts in the state.
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen and Maggie Hassan and Reps. Annie Kuster and Chris Pappas said the state will receive $735,844 that will go to the the National Alliance on Mental Illness New Hampshire. The funding will be used to raise awareness about youth suicide, educate the public and ensure those in crisis can get the help they need.
Pointing to data that shows suicide was the second most common cause for death among young Americans in 2017, Shaheen said the issue “demands our full attention.”
Hassan praised the alliance for its work in addressing mental health challenges and said she would continue working “to end the stigma attached to mental health challenges, as well as ensure that New Hampshire has the resources it needs to help families and communities affected by mental health struggles.”
Pappas, meanwhile, described youth suicide as a “mental health emergency,” adding that “we must ensure that our young people here in New Hampshire get the help and support they need.”
CLAREMONT — A panel discussion about a proposal to bring a sober housing facility to Claremont will take place at 6 p.m. Thrusday at the Sugar River Valley Regional Technical Center, John Goodrich Community Room, located at 111 South St.
TRAILS (Transitional Reentry and Inmate Life Skills) participants, parents, current and past employers, sober housing experts and county officials will serve on the panel, according to a news release from Sullivan County. After sharing their stories and providing information about the proposed housing project, they will answer questions from attendees. The forum is part of the county’s public outreach efforts to provide information about the proposed sober housing project which would be located at 19 Sullivan St. in Claremont.
Those who cannot attend the meeting can watch it live on Channel 8 and on Facebook Live on the What’s Up Claremont page.
MONTPELIER — President Donald Trump on Friday approved a disaster declaration for areas of Vermont damaged by a severe Halloween storm and flooding and ordered federal assistance to help with the recovery.
State officials had earlier estimated that the flooding and wind damage from the storm that hit on Oct. 31 and lasted into Nov. 1, 2019, caused about $5 million in damage.
The state announced in November that it had received $500,000 from the U.S. Department of Transportation to repair roads damaged in the storm.
NASHUA, N.H. — The New Hampshire attorney general says a Nashua police officer was justified in using deadly force in the non-fatal shooting of a man at a home in September.
Officer John Colangelo shot 59-year-old William Case in the chest on Sept. 20. Case survived, and no one else was injured.
The attorney general’s office said Friday the shooting was a legally justified use of lethal force. A full report will be released later, but officials said police were called to the home by a report of a man brandishing a long-barreled gun in a threatening manner. Case initially refused to come out and later came to the door with the gun, which later was determined to be an air rifle, the attorney general said.
BOSTON — Treasures from the famed Egyptian ruler King Tut are coming to Boston.
The more than 150 artifacts from Tutankhamun’s tomb will be on display from June 13 through January 2021 at The Saunders Castle at Park Plaza, a special events space in the city’s Back Bay neighborhood.
They’re part of “King Tut: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh,” a traveling exhibit with stops in Paris, London and Los Angeles.
The exhibit is billed at the largest display of Tut treasures ever to travel outside of Egypt. The objects will become part of the permanent collection of the Grand Egyptian Museum currently under construction in Egypt.
Mayor Marty Walsh announced the exhibit outside City Hall earlier this week. He was backed by a 25-foot, 2-ton re-creation of an Egyptian tomb guard statue.
Officials say it’s the first time King Tut’s possessions have visited Boston in nearly 60 years. Some of Tut’s relics last visited the city in 1963.
King Tut became a household name and helped renew interest in ancient Egypt when his tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings was discovered nearly fully intact in 1922. Egyptologists say the boy king took the throne when he was eight or nine years old and died about a decade later.
— Staff and wire reports