Courts and Justice

Wendy Leedberg-Snow and Jim Tetreault, Winchester’s Town Clerk, conspired to create a fake marriage certificate a month after her boyfriend’s death. She then began selling his assets.

A police officer was stabbed outside of a residence in Peterborough Sunday during an altercation with another resident, who was shot and killed.

In a motion filed Wednesday, Teresa Youngblut’s defense team wrote that federal agents were attempting to detain her and her companion, Felix Bauckholt, for “alien smuggling,” despite knowing that Bauckholt — a German national — had a valid visa.

The N.H. Attorney General said officers were justified in shooting the 24-year-old in Manchester last December, after mistaking a flashlight he pointed at them for a firearm.

Rep. Steve Stafstrom (D-Bridgeport) is concerned that the U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging Connecticut’s assault weapon ban that followed the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in 2012.

The N.H. Division for Children, Youth and Families placed Kristy Geese at a Deerfield group home in 1993, where the jury found she suffered 106 incidents of abuse.

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship in a 5-4 decision, drawing praise from Connecticut officials and criticism from President Trump, who vowed to keep fighting the issue.

The decision firmly rejected the executive order that Trump issued on the first day of his second term.

Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who has long coached his daughters' and other girls' basketball teams at school, wrote the court's majority opinion.

The federal government said it needed access to a confidential database to ensure New Hampshire’s compliance with election laws.