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It has been an unusual summer with the heat and high humidity. As a result, we have experienced a few weeks of a "thermal inversion layer" over this area. With this condition, there is a difference of both temperature and humidity as you increase in height. An inversion layer is an abrupt change in both temperature and humidity. It will act much like the difference between air and water. Radio signals will be bent at the point of abrupt change. Depending on which side is more humid it may bend it either up or down. The signal will, in the first case be bent toward the sky. In the second case it will be bent back toward the ground.

When someone leaves a New Hampshire prison the odds are 50-50 that they will be back.

Staying out of the criminal justice system, is a difficult thing to do.

Jill Boisvert has stayed out for five years.

When she went in, she was 28 and had five children, including an infant daughter.

New Hampshire Public Radio's Dan Gorenstein has this look at what, on some measure, can be called a success story.

Elder abuse is on the rise, but for the most part, it's unintentional. We'll look at efforts to educate the public on what it is, how it happens and what can be done to help cut back on this unfortunate aspect of caring for a rapidly aging population. Laura's guests are Lynn Koontz, Administrator for the state division of Elderly and
Adult Services at HHS, Rep. Jim MacKay, Vice-Chairman of the Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs Committee, and Chris Domian, Chief Investigator for the Medicaid Fraud Unit at the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office. All three are members of the Elder Abuse Advisory Council.