Sruthi Gopalakrishnan - Concord Monitor

There were 44 domestic violence homicides in New Hampshire from 2022 to 2025. Of those, 22 were killed by a family member and 20 by an intimate partner.

Casella Waste Systems announced its landfill in Bethlehem will close by the end of 2026, which is a year earlier than planned.

Attorneys for both the state and defense agreed to set October 2027 as the start date for Adam Montgomery's retrial in the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, Harmony Montgomery.

Bow police investigators worked with the New Hampshire Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security to execute a search warrant of the Yihong Spa as part of a probe into suspected human trafficking and prostitution-related offenses.

In the lawsuit, Robert Clark said he faced repeated threats of prosecution from Concord police during his years of homelessness, as officers enforced the state’s loitering statute against him.

The ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit comes nine months after the court heard oral arguments in the case, which centers on pink “XX” wristbands that Bow parents wore during a girls’ soccer game as a symbol of their opposition to transgender athletes participating in girls’ sports.

The lawsuit contends NH's loitering statute is unconstitutionally vague and violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments by denying due process and allowing the government to conduct unreasonable searches and seizures.

The Philbrook Adult Transitional Housing facility, a state-owned step-down residence near New Hampshire Hospital, was set to be sold next year. Lawmakers repealed that directive this year, and non-profit donations helped support Philbrook's programs and services.

Pamela Smart got another day in court Monday, this time seeking a new trial in her husband Gregg Smart's murder in 1990.

The bills signed by Gov. Kelly Ayotte follows a year of heightened focus on domestic violence and sexual assault, fueled by the state’s crackdown on illicit massage businesses tied to sex trafficking and the July 2025 killing of Marisol Fuentes in Berlin.