CONWAY — Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald announced Thursday that autopsy results for New Hampshire Speaker of the House Dick Hinch of Merrimack, who died Wednesday at age 71, showed “the cause of Speaker Hinch’s death was COVID-19.”
“It just goes to show that we all have to be super careful,” state Senate Majority Leader-elect Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro) said by phone Thursday.
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