New Hampshire

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LACONIA, N.H. (AP) — New England Patriots safety Patrick Chung has been indicted in New Hampshire on a charge of cocaine possession, according to court paperwork released Thursday. A Belknap County grand jury indicted Chung, 32, on Aug. 8. Chung knowingly possessed cocaine on June 25 while in Meredith, authorities said. Chung’s arraignment is scheduled […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire’s attorney general launched an investigation Thursday into the state youth detention center after two former counselors were charged with raping a teenage boy 82 times, at least once at gunpoint, in the late 1990s. The “comprehensive, multi-faceted” investigation into the Sununu Youth Services Center will initially focus on the […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The driver of a truck in a fiery collision on a rural New Hampshire highway that killed seven motorcyclists was charged Monday with seven counts of negligent homicide. Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, 23, was arrested Monday morning at his home in West Springfield, Massachusetts, on a fugitive from justice charge related to Friday’s […]

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire is the latest state to repeal its death penalty, as the state Senate had enough votes to override Gov. Chris Sununu’s veto. The repeal takes effect immediately. The 16-8 vote Thursday was the necessary two-thirds majority to override. The House narrowly voted last week to override Sununu’s veto. New […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The two remaining people involved in a 15-hour standoff at a hotel have been found dead inside a room, after a man was killed outside the building in a shooting that involved law enforcement, the New Hampshire attorney general’s office said Thursday. The two were found inside a room at the […]

A high school teacher in New Hampshire has been placed on leave after she allowed two of her 11th grade students to sing a racist song for the class. The pair performed a song about the KKK killing Black people to the tune of Jingle Bells. Chris Paul responds by singing “you mfs are so […]

A New Hampshire school district placed a teacher on paid administrative leave during an investigation into video footage of two students singing a song with lyrics about the Ku Klux Klan and killing Black people, reports The New York Times. The Dover School District was working with students and educators at the school, Dover High, […]

CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said. The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in […]

CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) — Teenagers in New Hampshire taunted an 8-year-old biracial boy with racial slurs and then pushed him off of a picnic table with a rope around his neck, injuring him, the boy’s family said. The child was treated at a hospital for cuts to his neck following the near-hanging Aug. 28 in […]

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders hope to emerge from New Hampshire’s primary Tuesday with their first wins of the 2016 presidential election, victories that would boost credibility for both of these breakout campaigns. Trump leads a Republican field that has been in flux in the final days of campaigning across snowy […]

Ronald Szettella, 43, was arrested on Wednesday after police connected him to a bomb threat in Pelham Elementary School in September 2013, two robberies at a local convenience stores nearly a year apart and a recent robbery at a Dunkin Donuts.