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Judge quickly denies request to discard $38 million verdict in New Hampshire youth center abuse case
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The judge who oversaw a landmark trial about New Hampshire’s youth detention center has refused to discard the $38 million verdict, saying the facility’s leadership “either knew and didn’t care or didn’t care to learn the truth” about endemic physical and sexual abuse. A jury earlier this month sided with David Meehan, who alleged he was repeatedly raped, beaten and held in solitary confinement at the Youth Development Center in the 1990s. The attorney general’s office is seeking to drastically reduce the award. While that issue remains unsettled, the state also asked Judge Andrew Schulman to...
Man Gets Over 3 Years in Prison for Posting Video Threatening School Shooting in New Hampshire
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A man who posted a Snapchat video last year threatening to shoot up a New Hampshire high school was sentenced to a little over three years in prison on Tuesday. Kyle Hendrickson, 26, had pleaded guilty to charges of interstate threatening communications and possessing a...
Fired Corrections Officer Claims Retaliation, Files Ethics Complaint Against Helen Hanks
CONCORD – Department of Corrections Commissioner Helen Hanks is under new scrutiny for allegedly retaliating against an officer who reported misconduct, setting off a chain of events that would ultimately end in his firing based on trumped up evidence, according to documents. Thomas Macholl’s complaint to the Executive Branch...
Ulta Beauty Supply shoplifting suspects may have hit 24 stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, company says
WAREHAM, Mass. — Suspects accused of stealing thousands of dollars of beauty supplies from an Ulta Beauty Supply store in Wareham last week may be involved in 24 shoplifting incidents at Ulta stores in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, the company said. Wareham police were called on May 7 to...
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