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The Roman Catholic Diocese of Manchester has announced a groundbreaking agreement with the State Attorney General.
The Diocese agreed to cooperate extensively with the state--and in exchange the Attorney General won't prosecute the Diocese for child endangerment.
NHPR's Raquel Maria Dillon reports.

State agency commissioners received some bad news this afternoon.

Governor-elect Craig Benson has asked department heads to resubmit their budgets for next year.

And he's asking them to cut their requests by five percent.

The single largest state agency is the Department of Health and Human Services.

Acting commissioner Cathy Sgambatti tells NHPR's Mark Bevis the cuts will be tough.

But the news was not unexpected.

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That was Attorney General Philip McLaughlin.

He was speaking with NHPR's Mark Bevis.

Millions of Americans suffer from the disease – and there’s still no cure. Complications include heart disease, stroke, and blindness. We’ll talk about what can be done to manage diabetes. We’ll also find out how much diabetes can be prevented in the first place. Laura’s guests are Dr. Comi, Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, www.hitchcock.org and Mary Jo Dudley, diabetes educator, Lamprey Health Care www.lampreyhealth.org.

It's not the rosiest of predictions, but it's inevitable.

We're all going to die.

The question is, how well are we going to die?

What care will we receive in our last days, or last hours?

A national organization has compiled data on how well states care for the dying.

It's the nation's first state-by-state report card on the subject.

Andy Burness is with Last Acts, a coalition of health care groups and medical associations.

He spoke with NHPR's Mark Bevis.

In the 19th and early 20th century, they braved social convention, and very unwieldy clothing, to climb the highest mountains in the world. Many of them have been forgotten over time, but their stories are told in a new book, ?Women on High,? published by Appalachian Mountain Club Books. The author is Rebecca Brown, writer, journalist, and NHPR?s North Country correspondent.