The state Supreme Court yesterday upheld the child pornography conviction of a Pembroke man who argued the police had not shown sufficient cause to search his house and computer. Jack Ward, now 54, was convicted in 2010 of possessing child pornography and sentenced to serve at least three years in state prison. According to the Supreme Court decision, a neighbor had gone into Ward's…
January 14, 2012
Snow covered Concord yesterday for the first time this year, leaving schools closed, plow trucks on the streets and sleds careening down the hill at White Park. The morning storm dumped 3.7 inches on the city, according to the National Weather Service, surpassing a snowfall of 2.7 inches in late November but falling…
January 13, 2012
While state election officials spent yesterday entering and proofing election results, Republican leaders looked ahead to the 2016 primary. Steve Duprey, the Concord developer and Republican national committeeman, flew to New Orleans yesterday for a meeting of the national committee, where he said members will discuss the ongoing primary process and ideas for the next cycle. "It's…
January 12, 2012
After capturing the New Hampshire primary victory denied him four years earlier, Mitt Romney looked beyond the nominating battle and sharpened his call for replacing President Obama. Romney was favored in New Hampshire from the start, and he strode to the stage at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester to declare victory less than half an hour after the polls closed - and…
January 11, 2012
Mitt Romney told reporters in Hudson that a comment he made this morning -- "I like being able to fire people who provide services to me" -- is being taken out of context. "I was speaking about insurance companies and the need to be able to make a choice, and my comments entirely reflected that discussion,"…
January 9, 2012
Exeter
Hundreds of people crowded into a gymnasium at Exeter High School last night for a rally with Mitt Romney and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, one of his most prominent supporters. Christie rallied the crowd to cheers time and again, never more so than when he responded to a protester who interrupted him by shouting…
January 9, 2012
Arguing for more choice in health insurance, Mitt Romney told a Nashua crowd this morning they should be able to "fire" their insurers. Romney made his career in private equity, and political opponents have argued that his firm, Bain Capital, made its profits by laying off workers. Romney told the gathering…
January 9, 2012
Concord
The rest of the Republican presidential field pummeled Mitt Romney during their final shared appearance before the New Hampshire primary with charges designed to undercut his identity as a conservative businessman. The debate yesterday morning at Concord's Capitol Center for the Arts was far feistier than the exchange…
January 9, 2012
Manchester
Challengers in the Republican nominating fight turned on each other last night during a debate at Saint Anselm College as they sought to emerge as an alternative to Mitt Romney in the presidential primary on Tuesday and the race beyond. Three days before New Hampshire voters head to the polls for the first-in-the-nation…
January 8, 2012
Primary 2012
It's hard to miss signs of the Republican presidential debate on South Main Street this morning. People holding all manner of political signs — from those for the candidates to the Occupy movement and the UAW — are lining both sides of the street by the Capitol Center for the Arts. Across the…
January 8, 2012
Derry
Cheers and applause greeted Mitt Romney yesterday at a rally that drew hundreds of people to a Derry gymnasium on the final weekend before the presidential primary. If the audience was subdued at Romney's first New Hampshire event following his narrow victory in the Iowa caucuses, the crowd yesterday morning was large and enthusiastic. They cheered for Romney and laughed at his…
January 8, 2012
Tilton
Correction appended. So many people turned out last night for a spaghetti dinner with Mitt Romney that the campaign set up an overflow room. But when Romney made it to the main event, in a wood-paneled room at the Tilton School, he urged supporters to stay vigilant despite polls showing him as the prohibitive favorite…
January 7, 2012
As he campaigned in Salem before an overnight trip to South Carolina, Mitt Romney assailed President Obama over a labor dispute centered on the third-voting state. Romney throughout his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination has criticized the National Labor Relations Board for charging that Boeing broke federal labor law by opening a new plant in South Carolina, a…
January 6, 2012
Michele Bachmann has left the race, but her accusations of "crony capitalism" live on. The Minnesota congresswoman used the phrase to criticize the TARP bailouts of the banks, Rick Perry's order that girls receive the Gardasil vaccine, the federal health care law and bonuses for executives at the mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Sarah Palin has also been known to call…
January 6, 2012
