The lawyer for a woman who allegedly lied to police about the disappearance of University of New Hampshire sophomore Elizabeth “Lizzi” Marriott last fall said she will plead guilty to all charges against her Thursday. …read more
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By John Johnson
Smoking pot is now legal in all of New England—provided you have a doctor’s permission. New Hampshire today became the last state in the region to approve, as Gov. Maggie Hassan made it official, reports the Union Leader . It joins 18 other states. Patients who qualify will be able… …read more
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By Kelly Phillips Erb, Contributor For Sale: 110 acre hilltop compound in bucolic Plainfield, New Hampshire, approximately 1-1/2 hours from Concord, to be auctioned off by the federal government. Eight inch walls. Generator and capacity to function without outside utilities. Minimum bid: $250,000. Potential bomb risk. Yes, bomb risk. …read more
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Federal officials preparing to sell the New Hampshire compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons can’t guarantee that explosives and other booby traps aren’t hidden on the 103-acre spread.
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Federal officials are preparing to sell the New Hampshire compound of a tax-evading couple convicted of amassing an arsenal of weapons, but they can’t guarantee that explosives and other booby traps aren’t hidden on the 103-acre spread. …read more
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By Matt Cantor
Heroin’s not just a city drug anymore: Its use is surging in the smaller communities of New England, the New York Times reports. Last year, 21 people died in Maine from the drug—three times as many as the year before. Over the course of a decade, New Hampshire’s yearly… …read more
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After relentlessly defending for months the Senate’s ambitious overhaul of the nation’s immigration laws, Sen. Marco Rubio didn’t respond when House GOP leaders last week trashed it as a “flawed … massive, Obama-care like bill.”
The Florida Republican’s office, which churned out countless press releases touting his interviews and speeches about the legislation, hasn’t said a word about immigration since the Senate passed the bill on June 27.
The silence is a sign that, at least publicly, Rubio won’t try to dissuade the House from a piecemeal approach that excludes a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
Instead, Rubio is turning to the safer, more-conservative-friendly issues he campaigned on in 2010—President Obama’s health care law, federal spending, the deficit—but with less support from Republicans than before, according to public polls. He’s put off abortion opponents clamoring for him to spearhead a controversial ban after 20 weeks of pregnancy and staying put while potential rivals in 2016 jockey in the early-primary states.
In the past week, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., addressed Republican activists in Nevada, while Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, announced plans to headline a fundraiser in New Hampshire on Aug. 23. (Both Paul and Cruz voted against the immigration bill.) Rubio hasn’t been to a presidential stomping ground outside of Florida since November, when he visited Iowa.
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Rik Stevens, a veteran reporter and editor for The Associated Press in upstate New York, has been named to the news cooperative’s newly created position of administrative correspondent for Northern New England.
The appointment was announced Tuesday by Karen Testa, the AP’s editor for the East region of the U.S.
As correspondent, Stevens will work with staff in New Hampshire, Maine and Vermont to aggressively pursue spot and enterprise stories, set the news agenda and provide robust multi-format reporting. He also will contribute original reporting for the state, regional and national reports.
Stevens, 48, will report to Cara Rubinsky, AP’s news editor for New England, and will be based in Concord, N.H.
Stevens has been news editor for upstate New York since 2001. During that time, he has led coverage of a plane crash into a home near Buffalo that killed 50 people; the debate and passage of the state’s gay marriage law; a rampage at a civic association office in Binghamton that killed 13 people; and the downfall of a governor because of a prostitution scandal.
“Rik is a smart, energetic news leader who brings a wealth of experience as editor and reporter,” Testa said. “His work in pressing for accountability reporting and distinctive enterprise will help to build on the strength of our reports across New England.”
Before joining the AP, Stevens worked as a reporter for The Saratogian and The Gazette company.
He’ll begin his new role in mid-August.
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Amid searing testimony by survivors of the Rwanda genocide, a New Hampshire woman sentenced to 10 years in prison after she was found guilty of lying about her role in the 1994 atrocity has said nothing.
Through two trials, 43-year-old Beatrice Munyenyezi (moon-yehn-YEH’-zee) of Manchester sat silently. She chose not to speak on her own behalf at her sentencing Monday in federal court in Concord. The Rwanda native also declined requests for interviews.
The judge who sentenced her said she participated in the deliberate and hateful mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Tutsis in the African nation.
Her lawyers say the maximum sentence she received will spare her from imminent deportation to Rwanda — a move they say would amount to a death sentence.
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By David Newton Kurt Busch kept his cool after being involved in a wreck with Ryan Newman that ended his chances of winning Sunday’s Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire, but his younger brother didn’t. …read more
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A New Hampshire woman who lied about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, a fate her lawyers say is tantamount to a death sentence.
Rwanda native Beatrice Munyenyezi remained stoic as U.S. District Judge Steven McAuliffe sentenced her to the maximum prison time. She declined her right to address the court.
Munyenyezi, 43, was convicted in February of entering the United States and securing citizenship by lying about her role as a commander of one of the notorious roadblocks where Tutsis were singled out for slaughter. She also denied affiliation with any political party, despite her husband’s leadership role in the extremist Hutu militia party.
McAuliffe acknowledged she has led a crime-free and productive life since her arrival in New Hampshire in 1998 but said it was a life lived under false pretenses.
Federal prosecutors had sought the maximum prison sentence, saying she’s as guilty as if she wielded the machete herself.
During the 1994 genocide, at least 500,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed in a campaign of mass murder orchestrated by Hutu extremists.
Munyenyezi’s lawyers say they will appeal her conviction to the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals — a move that is expected to delay deportation proceedings.
Through two trials and the three years since her indictment in 2010, Munyenyezi has remained silent. She did not testify and declined an Associated Press request for an interview in the wake of her first trial ending a mistrial in 2012.
She has spent most of those three years in custody and apart from her three daughters, ages 18-20.
Her lawyers portrayed her as the victim of lies by Rwandan witnesses who never before implicated her through nearly two decades of investigations and trials — even when testifying against her husband and his mother before the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda.
Prosecutors maintained that she was a liar who “gamed” the immigration system to fraudulently obtain the “golden ticket” of citizenship. She swore on immigration and naturalization forms that she persecuted no one, had no affiliation with any political party and even cast herself as a victim of the genocide by saying family members “disappeared.”
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Now that police have secured the second of two suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing — who as of Saturday night lay hospitalized in serious condition under heavy guard and apparently in no shape to be interrogated — the long and meticulous process of examining motives, methods and possible links begins.
There was no immediate word on when Tsarnaev might be charged and what those charges would be. The twin bombings killed three people and wounded more than 180.
The most serious charge available to federal prosecutors would be the use of a weapon of mass destruction to kill people, which carries a possible death sentence. Massachusetts does not have the death penalty.
A Justice Department official said Friday the government is invoking a seldom-used public safety exception permitting officials to engage in a limited and focused unwarned interrogation of a suspect — in this case Dzhokhar Tsarnaev — without first reading him his typically assured Miranda rights. That official, as well as a second, both of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity, says Tsarnaev will be questioned by a special interrogation team for high-value suspects.
The public safety exception not only permits the unwarned questioning of a suspect, but also allows the government to introduce any statement yielded by such interrogation as evidence in court. The exception is triggered when authorities have an objectively reasonable need to protect themselves or the public from a clear and present danger.
However, the exception lasts only 48 hours and should be extended by declaring Tsarnaev a potential enemy combatant, under the Law of War, Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina; John McCain, Arizona; and Kelly Ayotte, New Hampshire, said in a statement Saturday. They were joined by New York Republican Rep. Peter King.
According to media accounts, Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan, were Muslims who recently gravitated to a radical strain of Islam, going so far as to post Anti-American, jihadist videos on social-media sites. Both are thought to have as-yet-unprobed ties to a radical Muslim cleric hellbent on the destruction of the American way of life.
A day-long dragnet for Tsarnaev ended Friday, with police capturing the suspect covered in blood and hiding in a boat in the backyard of a man who called 911 after becoming suspicious of activity on his property.
“We got him,” Boston Mayor Tom Menino tweeted moments later, as neighbors gathered to form a gauntlet of cheers while a phalanx of police cars departed the scene.
Police moved in on Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Friday evening after a tip led them to the home on Franklin Street, where he apparently had been hiding in the back yard.
Neighbors said they heard more than 30 shots likened to “a roll of firecrackers shooting off.” Police swarmed the scene, and several explosions, possibly police concussion grenades, were heard after a robot moved in on the boat. Less than two hours later, at about 9 p.m., the suspect, believed to have been injured in a wild shootout that spanned Thursday night to Friday morning, was being taken to
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WASHINGTON— Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky says he is considering a presidential campaign in 2016 but will not make a decision before next year.
Paul says at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor that he wants to be part of the national debate and being considered a potential candidate gives him a “larger microphone” on issues.
Paul plans to travel to early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire this spring and South Carolina this summer as part of the process.
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Several dozen states are looking for an alternative to the GED test because of concerns that a new version is more costly and will no longer be offered in a pencil and paper format.
Forty states have participated in a group that’s considering options for the high school equivalency test. New York, Montana and New Hampshire announced last month they are switching to test providers that offer a cheaper alternative to the GED. Missouri also has requested bids.
At $120, the new GED that debuts in January is double the cost of the current test. Several states subsidize some or all of the expense, but the student share is expected to rise.
GED officials say the new test is cheaper to administer and is changing because of tougher state standards.
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By Rich Duprey, The Motley Fool
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One of the most powerful statements you can make and one of the most important freedoms you have is to vote with your feet, to just get up and move somewhere that better respects your rights. Gunmakers under assault from those who would limit a citizen’s Second Amendment rights are doing just that: They’re picking up their manufacturing facilities out of states that have passed restrictive gun ownership laws and walking to freedom in states with a strong tradition of protecting gun rights.
A call to arms
Connecticut gunmaker PTR Industries announced that it will leave the state in response to the new law just signed that gives Connecticut some of the strictest gun laws in the country. While it will review over the next six weeks the entreaties it has received from other states and plans to have the move completed by year’s end, it also encourages other gunmakers in the state to follow its lead and move elsewhere.
“We are making a call to all involved in our industry to leave this state, close your doors, and show our politicians the true consequences of their hasty and uninformed actions,” the company stated.
And PTR is not alone. Two other Connecticut-based munitions makers, Stag Arms and Ammunition Storage Components, are weighing whether they have the shoe leather to make a move. Ironic, as it comes from a state whose motto is qui transtulit sustinet, or “he who is transplanted still sustains.”
Don’t mess with Texas
Nor is this confined to Connecticut. Italian gun manufacturer Beretta is actively considering leaving Maryland because of the restrictive new laws it passed, while Magpul Industries is leaving Colorado.
Texas, in particular, has gone out of his way to woo gun and ammunition makers, sending letters to dozens of them inviting them to relocate. Mississippi as well is trying to entice gun manufacturers from Colorado, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, and North Carolina.
Shooting out the lights
Sturm, Ruger and Colt Defense are two major gunmakers headquartered in Connecticut that have yet to take a stance on voting with their feet, though they’ve undoubtedly benefited from the heightened concern over gun control. Ruger recently reported a 52% jump in fourth-quarter sales, while revenues at rival Smith & Wesson Holding , which is located in nearby Massachusetts, saw revenues surge 39% in the most recent quarter. Although the FBI cautions that background checks don’t equate into gun sales on a one-to-one basis, one report suggests that based on National Instant Criminal Background Check System data, there were almost 22 million background checks between Jan. 1, 2012, and Jan. 31, 2013, which translates into one every 1.6 seconds!
There’s a sense that the industry cannot accept the attacks being waged against it any longer. Greater numbers of manufacturers and distributors are taking the position that if their products are illegal for citizens of certain states to own, then they won’t sell them to the government, either. Almost 150 gun
From: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/04/14/gunmakers-voting-with-their-feet/
Police say they’ve got the $3,200 engagement ring a New Hampshire man allegedly swallowed during an attempted jewelry store theft.
Authorities charged 52-year-old Ronald Perley with theft and falsifying physical evidence after they say X-rays showed the 14-karat white-gold ring with princess-cut diamonds inside him.
WMUR-TV reports Manchester police had recovered the ring as of Saturday.
Perley allegedly went into Bellman’s Jewelers on Thursday asking about engagement rings. Workers said he grabbed a ring then swallowed it after being confronted.
Police say surveillance footage shows Perley taking the ring and putting his hand to his mouth.
Perley was being held on $50,000 bail. It’s not clear if he has an attorney.
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Police say they’ve got the $3,200 engagement ring a New Hampshire allegedly swallowed during an attempted jewelry store theft.
Authorities charged 52-year-old Ronald Perley with theft and falsifying physical evidence after they say X-rays showed the 14-karat white-gold ring with princess-cut diamonds inside him.
WMUR-TV (http://bit.ly/15cl7n3 ) reports Manchester police had recovered the ring as of Saturday.
Perley allegedly went into Bellman’s Jewelers on Thursday asking about engagement rings. Workers said he grabbed a ring then swallowed it after being confronted.
Police say surveillance footage shows Perley taking the ring and putting his hand to his mouth.
Perley was being held on $50,000 bail. It’s not clear if he has an attorney.
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By DYInewbie
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Police say the X-rays don’t lie: A man who tried to flee from a New Hampshire jewelry store with a diamond ring worth $3,200 swallowed it.
Employees at Bellman’s Jewelers in Manchester say Ronald Perley came in Thursday and was looking for an engagement ring.
Police say the 52-year-old Perley picked up a ring and ran toward the door.
Workers confronted him, saying they saw Perley put his hand to his mouth and swallow. He denied swallowing the ring.
Police got a search warrant and brought him to Elliot Hospital, where X-rays showed the 14-karat white-gold ring with princess-cut diamonds inside him.
Perley was arraigned on charges of theft and falsifying physical evidence. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had a lawyer. His $50,000 bail includes the ring’s recovery.
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