A federal judge is set to weigh in on whether New Hampshire’s at-home care program for the elderly and people with physical disabilities is so lackluster it violates federal laws meant to protect people from institutionalization. On Wednesday, Judge Paul Barbadoro of the U.S. District Court of New Hampshire scheduled a trial to begin Nov. […]
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OSSIPEE — A Rochester dump truck driver who was under the influence of illegal drugs when he caused the crash that killed an Ossipee grandmoth…
Can kids go to prison? A legal expert explains how young people can be tried and sentenced as adults
There’s a separate justice system for people under 18 because their brains are still developing. Treating them as adults can turn them into repeat offenders.
OSSIPEE — An attorney who lives in Bartlett and filed a lawsuit over the Conway Rec path is now asking a Carroll County Superior Court judge t…
What’s a true threat and what’s political hyperbole? A scholar of constitutional and criminal law looks at the charges against James Comey for an Instagram post that said, ‘86 47.’
Guns are what make violent partners so dangerous. And in the US, Black women get less protection from laws meant to keep firearms out of abusers’ hands.
The constitutional prohibition of ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ has shaped legal discourse around failed executions, but courts have not stopped states from attempting to execute the same man again.
CONCORD — A Coos County grand jury has returned indictments against a North Country businessman for alleged unemployment compensation fraud, a…
BERLIN — Executive Councilor Janet Stevens (R-Rye) is asking the Attorney General’s office to intervene in her request to the Berlin Police De…