Paul Cuno-Booth - Granite State News Collaborative

New Hampshire is seeing a surge in housing costs, driven by a shortage of available housing units. It's especially acute in Portsmouth, one of the least affordable places to live in the Granite State.

Attorneys for Jason Carroll, who says he was wrongfully convicted of the murder of Sharon Johnson, continue to seek DNA testing they say will exonerate him.

The state has regulations meant to force problematic police officers out of the profession. But the case of former state trooper Haden Wilber exposes gaps in those rules.

The New England Innocence Project says police coerced Jason Carroll to falsely confess to helping murder a pregnant woman in 1988. Now, they’ve filed a motion they hope could get him out of prison.

Researchers have documented widespread racial bias in so-called pretextual or investigative stops, while noting that the vast majority of such stops don’t find evidence of a crime.

The practice can lead to racial disparities even when officers aren’t deliberately targeting drivers on the basis of race, researchers say. Because such stops are highly discretionary, implicit bias plays a bigger role.

It’s a legal but controversial tactic known as a pretextual stop, used often by the New Hampshire State Police Mobile Enforcement Team, or MET.

The state law enforcement agency previously declined to disclose those records, citing personnel privacy.

In sparsely populated parts of N.H., grocery stores are fewer, placing an extra burden on people without cars and making shopping trips more expensive due to the cost of gas.

State Police fired Haden Wilber in 2021 after determining he violated multiple departmental policies and the state and federal constitutions during a 2017 case.