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Londonderry Times newspaper editions rest on a table at the Leach Library, Friday, Aug. 26, 2022, in Londonderry, N.H. Debra Paul, publisher of The Londonderry Times, is accusing the state attorney general's office of government overreach after she was arrested on charges that she published political advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

New Hampshire newspaper publisher cries foul over political ad arrest

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressAugust 27, 2022

FILE — Three of Amer Fakhoury's four daughters, from left, Guila, Macy, and Zoya Fakhoury, gather Nov. 5, 2019, in Salem, N.H. Amer Fakhoury was a Lebanese American restaurant owner who made his first trip back to Lebanon in 2019 in nearly 20 years to see family. In Lebanon he was accused of torturing and killing inmates at a former prison where his family says he had worked as a clerk. Fakhoury was released in March 2020 and died that August from lymphoma. The Fakhourys are trying...

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Family to proceed with suit alleging NH restaurateur tortured in Lebanon

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressAugust 18, 2022

FILE — David Lidstone, 81, known to locals as "River Dave," speaks with reporters during an interview with The Associated Press Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Boscawen, N.H. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of the former hermit in New Hampshire who is charged with trespassing on the wooded property he made his home for 27 years after he didn't show up for his arraignment. A prosecutor said Monday, March 7, 2022, the state of New Hampshire has had no contact with 81-year-old...

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’River Dave,’ banned from New Hampshire site, moves to Maine

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressAugust 18, 2022

Volodymr Zhukovskyy, left, of West Springfield, Mass., charged with negligent homicide in the deaths of seven motorcycle club members in a 2019 crash, is accompanied by defense attorney Steve Mirkin, second from left, and escorted by court security while visiting the site of the crash on a two-lane highway, in Randolph, N.H., Monday, July 25, 2022. Zhukovskyy has pleaded not guilty to multiple counts of negligent homicide, manslaughter, reckless conduct and driving under the...

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Truck driver on trial in NH crash that killed 7 motorcyclists

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressJuly 26, 2022

A poster of Harmony Montgomery, who has been missing since 2019, rests against a tree during a candlelight vigil, Feb. 12, 2022, at Bass Island Park, in Manchester, N.H. An independent state agency that represents children says the needs of a girl who authorities began looking for two years after she went missing were not prioritized by the state of Massachusetts. A report Wednesday, May 4, 2022 from the head of the Office of the Child Advocate said Harmony Montgomery, who was last...

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Advocate: Massachusetts system had ‘failed’ missing NH girl Harmony

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressMay 4, 2022

FILE - In this 2010 image taken from video, courtesy of WMUR television of Manchester, N.H., Pamela Smart is shown during an interview at the corrections facility, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. A lawyer for Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, is asking New Hampshire’s highest court to order a state council to hold a hearing on her request to reduce her life-without-parole sentence. The council rejected her request for a...

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Pamela Smart’s lawyer asks NH high court to order sentence hearing

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressApril 15, 2022

FILE — David Lidstone, 81, speaks with reporters during an interview on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021, in Boscawen, N.H. Lidstone, an off-the-grid New Hampshire hermit known to locals as "River Dave," had been living in a cabin in the woods along the Merrimack River, in Canterbury, N.H., for nearly three decades. A contempt of court hearing has been scheduled for Thursday, March 31, 2022, for Lidstone, accused of returning to live on property that he was ordered to stay away from. (AP...

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NH hermit ‘River Dave’ a no-show at disputed woodlot hearing, faces fines

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressMarch 31, 2022

FILE — In this 2010 image taken from video, courtesy of WMUR television of Manchester, N.H., Pamela Smart is shown during an interview at the corrections facility, in Bedford Hills, N.Y. Smart, a former high school employee convicted of recruiting her teenage lover to kill her husband, was denied a sentence reduction hearing Wednesday, March 23, 2022, more than 30 years after a sensational trial that inspired books and a Nicole Kidman movie.(WMUR Television via AP, File)

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Ex-NH educator Pamela Smart denied chance at freedom decades after teen lover killed husband

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressMarch 23, 2022

Republicans in the N.H. House are considering a new map of the state's congressional districts that would make the First District (dark blue) significantly more Republican, surrounded on three sides by the state's Second Congressional District.

Sununu says he’ll veto GOP-backed redistricting map for US House elections

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressMarch 17, 2022

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NH domestic violence committee’s report seeks judicial feedback, legal help

by Kathy McCormack Associated PressMarch 8, 2022