LANCASTER — A Gorham man charged with reckless conduct with a deadly weapon — firearm for shooting bullets at local business windows and a par…
CONCORD — The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services has released the results of the 2025 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, which mea…
Rural places have long built and expanded prisons to tap federal funds during hard times.
The recently shuttered immigrant detention facility continued a long tradition of using alligators in ways that have reinforced demeaning racial stereotypes.
OSSIPEE — The man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her fetus is scheduled to be sentenced at 1 p.m. on Monday, and faces two consecut…
OSSIPEE — A Barnstead woman was sentenced Monday to six months in jail and received a suspended prison sentence after admitting she betrayed h…
Gov. Kelly Ayotte vetoed a bill that would’ve eliminated a three-year deadline for convicts to request a retrial based on new evidence. House Bill 1422 was pushed by the New England Innocence Project, which works to overturn wrongful convictions, and supported by a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers. New Hampshire state law bars convicts from requesting […]
CONWAY — A Fryeburg, Maine, man who was spotted in September 2024 following and taking photos of female Kennett High School students on school…
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.
