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Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Fred Harris Was Force Behind Riverfest indepthnh.org/2025/10/09/n...

Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Fred Harris Was Force Behind Riverfest

The people listed here passed away during the previous weeks and have some public or charitable connection to their community.

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NH Secrets, Legends and Lore: Red Squirrel Chaos indepthnh.org/2025/10/09/n...

NH Secrets, Legends and Lore: Red Squirrel Chaos

Come the end of summer, when the pine cones open to release their seeds/nuts, joining together with the colorful leaves of the fall’s deciduous trees, the sound that accompanies this moment is the lou...

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NH Secrets, Legends and Lore: Red Squirrel Chaos indepthnh.org/2025/10/09/n...

NH Secrets, Legends and Lore: Red Squirrel Chaos

Come the end of summer, when the pine cones open to release their seeds/nuts, joining together with the colorful leaves of the fall’s deciduous trees, the sound that accompanies this moment is the lou...

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Op-Ed: Time to Decide indepthnh.org/2025/10/09/o...

Op-Ed: Time to Decide

Had enough? Aren’t you just emotionally exhausted? Maybe we really have unwittingly become two countries: Red and Blue.

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Questions Raised About Justice Hantz Marconi’s Return To the Bench indepthnh.org/2025/10/08/q...

Questions Raised About Justice Hantz Marconi’s Return To the Bench

The special state Supreme Court panel in Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi's professional conduct case says her license to practice law remains suspended so she might not be returning to the bench qu...

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Future of News: Steve Taylor, Dick Tofel & George Bald Headline InDepthNH.org’s Big Party Oct. 22 https://indepthnh.org/2025/10/08/future-of-news-steve-taylor-dick-tofel-george-bald-headline-indepthnh-orgs-big-party-oct-22/

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TICKETS AVAILABLE: Steve Taylor, Dick Tofel & George Bald Headline InDepthNH.org’s Big Party Oct. 22 https://indepthnh.org/2025/10/08/party-time-indepthnh-org-invites-you-to-come-to-our-10th-anniversary-sept-23/

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Warrant Issued for Man in Shooting Deaths of 2 NH Women indepthnh.org/2025/10/08/w...

Warrant Issued for Man in Shooting Deaths of 2 NH Women

At approximately 1:15 p.m., officers of the Bath Police Department responded to 11 Tyler Way in Bath in response to a 911 call regarding shots fired. Upon arriving, Bath Police observed two deceased f...

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Three Teens Die in Francestown Crash indepthnh.org/2025/10/08/t...

Three Teens Die in Francestown Crash

At 11:10 p.m. on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, State Police dispatch received a report of a crash on Route 47 (Bennington Road) in Francestown. Troopers assigned to the Troop B barracks and emergency medi...

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NH Supreme Court Justice Hantz Marconi To Plead ‘No Contest’ To Misdemeanor, No Jail Time, Fined $1,200 indepthnh.org/2025/10/06/n...

NH Supreme Court Justice Hantz Marconi To Plead ‘No Contest’ To Misdemeanor, No Jail Time, Fined $1,200

State Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi has filed a notice of her intent to plead "no contest" without admitting guilt to one class B misdemeanor of Criminal Solicitation of Misuse of P...

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indepthnh.bsky.social @indepthnh.bsky.social · 5d

Seeking Answers in Lynne Brennan’s 2010 Manchester Homicide indepthnh.org/2025/10/05/s...

Seeking Answers in Lynne Brennan’s 2010 Manchester Homicide

As part of this renewed push for information, investigators are publicly releasing for the first time the last known footage of Lynne Brennan.

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indepthnh.bsky.social @indepthnh.bsky.social · 7d

NH Ports Director Geno Marconi’s Trial Delayed Until at Least February 17, 2026 indepthnh.org/2025/10/03/n...

NH Ports Director Geno Marconi’s Trial Delayed Until at Least February 17, 2026

The trial for state Ports and Harbors Director Geno Marconi, 73, has been delayed until early next year after his attorneys withdrew their objection to putting it off, which had been requested by pros...

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Teen Sentenced to 60 Years To Life for Triple Murder indepthnh.org/2025/10/03/t...

Teen Sentenced to 60 Years To Life for Triple Murder

Eric Sweeney turned 16 the week before he murdered his sister-in-law Kassandra Sweeney, 25, along with his nephews Benjamin, 4, and Mason, 23-months.

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Performance Audit of Education Freedom Account Program Continues indepthnh.org/2025/10/03/p...

Performance Audit of Education Freedom Account Program Continues

The long-waited audit on the Education Freedom Account program will not be finalized until mid-spring or next summer, members of the Joint Legislative Performance Audit Oversight Committee were told F...

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indepthnh.bsky.social @indepthnh.bsky.social · 7d

NH State Revenues Continue to Perform Below Expectations indepthnh.org/2025/10/03/n...

NH State Revenues Continue to Perform Below Expectations

For the third straight month of the 2026 Fiscal Year, New Hampshire revenues are below estimates and below what was produced last fiscal year in the first quarter.

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indepthnh.bsky.social @indepthnh.bsky.social · 8d

As AG Formella Rejects YDC Settlements, State Objects To Disclosing Possible Judicial Bias indepthnh.org/2025/10/02/a...

As AG Formella Rejects YDC Settlements, State Objects To Disclosing Possible Judicial Bias

If a Superior Court judge has a conflict of interest that potentially benefits Gov. Kelly Ayotte, the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office doesn’t want anyone to know about it, according to a notic...

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Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Ossipee Police Chief; Nashua’s Ray Guarino indepthnh.org/2025/10/02/n...

Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Ossipee Police Chief; Nashua’s Ray Guarino

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Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Ossipee Police Chief; Nashua’s Ray Guarino indepthnh.org/2025/10/02/n...

Notable New Hampshire Deaths: Former Ossipee Police Chief; Nashua’s Ray Guarino

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Defense Memo Details Eric Sweeney’s Childhood of Abuse indepthnh.org/2025/10/02/d...

Defense Memo Details Eric Sweeney’s Childhood of Abuse

Eric Sweeney’s childhood of harrowing abuse, instability, and extreme poverty is the basis for his request of a 40 years to life prison sentence for the murders of his sister-in-law, Kassandra Sweeney...

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indepthnh.bsky.social @indepthnh.bsky.social · 9d

DHHS: 2 More People With TB in Manchester & Nashua, Encourages Testing If You Were at Certain Places indepthnh.org/2025/10/01/d...

DHHS: 2 More People With TB in Manchester & Nashua, Encourages Testing If You Were at Certain Places

The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has identified two people with tuberculosis (TB) who were in Manchester and Nashua while infectious. These individuals are the second a...

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indepthnh.bsky.social @indepthnh.bsky.social · 10d

AG Seeks Delay in Geno Marconi’s Trial, Was Set To Start Day Before His Wife’s Trial indepthnh.org/2025/09/30/a...

AG Seeks Delay in Geno Marconi’s Trial, Was Set To Start Day Before His Wife’s Trial

Under Attorney General John Formella's name, prosecutors have asked the court to delay Ports and Harbors Director Geno Marconi's Nov. 3 trial because his wife state Supreme Court Justice Anna Barbara ...

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Teen Who Killed Sister-in-Law and 2 Nephews Seeks ‘Lenient,’ But Unknown Sentence indepthnh.org/2025/09/30/t...

Teen Who Killed Sister-in-Law and 2 Nephews Seeks ‘Lenient,’ But Unknown Sentence

Prosecutors want a minimum prison sentence of 118 years for Eric Sweeney, the Northfield teen who murdered his two nephews and his sister-in-law on Aug. 3, 2022.

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DHHS Alert: Recall of Marketside Linguine with Beef Meatballs & Marinara Sauce Sold at Walmart Stores indepthnh.org/2025/09/30/d...

DHHS Alert: Recall of Marketside Linguine with Beef Meatballs & Marinara Sauce Sold at Walmart Stores

While there have been no illnesses in New Hampshire to date, 20 people in other states have gotten sick with listeriosis after eating these products. Four have passed away.

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Dick Tofel Has Met a Few Billionaires; Meet Him on Oct. 22 at InDepthNH’s Celebration indepthnh.org/2025/09/22/d...

Dick Tofel Has Met a Few Billionaires; Meet Him on Oct. 22 at InDepthNH’s Celebration

Dick Tofel has had a career that has included stints as an executive at the Wall Street Journal and then jobs centered around philanthropy. He says this has given him the opportunity to know more bill...

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Op-Ed: It’s still a free country. Or is it? indepthnh.org/2025/09/29/o...

Op-Ed: It’s still a free country. Or is it?

One of the hallmarks of the enemy Dad helped to defeat, Nazi Germany, was its utter suppression of free speech, its total control of what was broadcast, printed or spoken about the regime. People died...

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