The owner of sober-living homes on Orange Street and Dubuque Street in Manchester wants the city to recognize the residents as a family, which would allow them to avoid a challenging city permitting process.
Thursday, April 22, 2021
Hours after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder on Tuesday, the Facebook page for the Fall River, Mass., Police Department shared a post suggesting George Floyd was to blame for his own death.
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
MINNEAPOLIS - Lavish Metger had to be here. The 28-year-old had spent the past two months vacationing in Colombia, far from the bitter cold weather and the unease stemming from the murder trial of Derek Chauvin, the former police officer who knelt on George Floyd's neck until he died just a …
For the second year, Gov. Chris Sununu has proclaimed April 22 as CASA Appreciation Day in New Hampshire.
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Merrick Garland on Wednesday announced a sweeping Justice Department probe into the practices and culture of the Minneapolis Police Department, elevating the federal government's role a day after officer Derek Chauvin was found guilty in the murder of George Floyd.
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
On hearing of the conviction of the former Minneapolis police officer who killed George Floyd in May 2020, local racial justice activists said their relief was tempered by the knowledge of how much work remains, including in New Hampshire.
Monday, April 19, 2021
WASHINGTON - The Biden administration plans to order U.S. immigration enforcement agencies to stop using terms such as "alien," "illegal alien" and "assimilation" when referring to immigrants in the United States, a rebuke of terms widely used under the Trump administration.
Sunday, April 18, 2021
A national nonprofit that uses physical activity and social connection to help people recover from substance misuse is expanding into Southern New Hampshire, planning to introduce programs on the Seacoast, and in Manchester, Concord and Nashua.
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Town meeting voters in Raymond last month sent a message to any businesses that might someday want to manufacture, sell or promote marijuana products: You are not welcome here.
More than 200 people of all ages gathered at Derryfield Park for a vigil remembering Daunte Wright, who was shot and killed by a police officer in Minnesota last week.
Chef Regina Mitchell’s Zoom cooking class begins like a lot of Zooms: friendly banter, reminders to mute here, some technical adjustments there. A few minutes after the 4:30 p.m. start time, there are about 20 people on the call. The menu for tonight: a vegetable stir-fry and a lemongrass-gi…
At 8 p.m. on Jan. 12, 1865, days after his "march to the sea," Major General William Tecumseh Sherman, met with 20 Black ministers on the second floor of his headquarters in Savannah, Ga.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
A public hearing will be held next week to give residents a chance to sound off on the future of the Brentwood Newsletter, which has suspended printing in the wake of a controversy over the publication of an opinion piece that some viewed as racist.
The few remaining residents of one of Manchester’s largest homeless encampments — a site adjacent to the Firestone auto care center — packed up and left the property Thursday under the gaze of city police and firefighters.
The head of Minnesota's largest police union heavily criticized the city government officials' handling of the deadly police shooting of Daunte Wright, a 20-year-old Black man, and blamed the victims' actions as one of the reasons he was killed.
WASHINGTON - A House committee on Wednesday approved legislation to create a commission to make recommendations on paying reparations to the descendants of enslaved people, the furthest the bill has advanced since it was first introduced more than 30 years ago.
For years, the Cavazos family has battled the federal government for their land in South Texas, tucked along the winding Rio Grande and passed down since before that river became an international boundary.
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
MANCHESTER — With another homeless encampment scheduled to be cleared Thursday in Manchester, the issue of what to do about the city’s dispossessed continues to divide and conflict officials, businesses and residents — and will figure prominently in this fall’s mayoral election.
For well over a decade, Cariol Horne insisted she was wrongly fired for trying to stop a White colleague from putting a handcuffed Black man in a chokehold.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Last summer, millions of ordinary Americans took to the streets to protest racism, police violence and the killing of George Floyd.
Monday, April 12, 2021
When developmental psychologist Liz Gershoff began studying the effects of spanking and harsh parenting discipline in the 1990s, the topic was still the subject of intense debate in scientific circles: Was physical punishment actually harmful to kids?
Apr. 11—EDITOR'S NOTE — This story contains descriptions of self-harm and suicide.
Saturday, April 10, 2021
BRIDGEWATER, Mass. - In federal court, Mark Sahady and Suzanne Ianni are facing charges of illegal entry and disorderly conduct for their alleged involvement in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. But at a rally against coronavirus restrictions held last month in a field outside Boston, the…
Friday, April 09, 2021
Residents of one the largest homeless camps in Manchester — a camp on land adjoining several local businesses — were told this week that they will be evicted next Thursday, city and company officials said.
Judges work hard to make sure that people convicted of the same crime receive similar sentences, said a judge on Friday whose earlier sentencing in connection to a Black Lives Matter protest is under scrutiny.
Judges try hard to ensure that people convicted of the same crime receive similar sentences, said a judge whose earlier sentencing in connection to a Black Lives Matter protest is under scrutiny.
Last month, Dallas police made a stunning allegation about one of their own - in 2017, they said, an officer had helped orchestrate two killings, paying hit men to kidnap and shoot the victims before dumping their bodies in a river. Cellphone data compiled by the FBI, they said, showed that …
Thursday, April 08, 2021
In the late afternoon on Tuesday, a woman burst into Good Choice for Nails Salon near Manhattan's Chinatown and began berating and threatening the Asian workers. "You brought coronavirus to this country!" she yelled, according to police.
Sunday, April 04, 2021
Two prominent New Hampshire prosecutors said they don’t believe race plays a factor in decisions by prosecutors, judges and juries, though data to back that up are not being analyzed.
Saturday, April 03, 2021
President Joe Biden's jobs plan proposes a massive investment in home care for the elderly and people with disabilities, as America's caretaking system faces strain from the nation's looming demographic challenges.
