Ian Lenahan - Portsmouth Herald

Aaron Goodwin, a former police officer in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, his brother Kevin Goodwin and sister-in-law Shannon Goodwin were all cleared of the state’s accusations July 2 by Judge Andrew Schulman.

Per Trump White House cuts, the University of New Hampshire stands to lose an estimated $17.5 million in the next five years, according to UNH President Elizabeth Chilton.

The Piscataqua River Bridge on Interstate 95, the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge and the Memorial Bridge, all within a several thousand feet of each other, are jointly owned and managed by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation and the Maine Department of Transportation.

Area mental health leaders will also advocate for suicide barriers to be installed on the three bridges connecting New Hampshire and Maine.

Possible upgrades to Rye Harbor are being studied by Tighe & Bond, a contractor hired by the Pease Development Authority, following a previous idea to remove the shack businesses at the site.

If the legislators’ proposed reduction holds, the USNH would be receiving $28.8 million less annually in the coming two years.

The report on the Memorial Bridge, which carries Route 1 over the Piscataqua River between Portsmouth, NH, and Kittery, Maine, was released by the National Transportation Safety Board one year after the fatal Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse in Baltimore.

The exemption was welcome news for the 7,000-plus civilian employees at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard. Many of those workers live in nearby New Hampshire and York County, Maine.

The Metal Trades Council, the largest union at the Portsmouth navy shipyard, has concerns about potential budget cuts and what it will mean for thousands of workers who hail largely from Maine and New Hampshire.

The leadership of the largest civilian employee union at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard has advised members not to accept the Trump administration’s federal employee buyout offers.