Free Speech

A Nashua woman won a second free speech lawsuit this year. An appeals court ruled the city of Nashua violated her First Amendment rights by refusing to fly politically divisive flags on the city’s Citizen Flag Pole.

The New Hampshire Attorney General brought civil rights charges against NSC-131 after members of the group hung a banner reading “Keep New England White” in Portsmouth.

The majority of those arrested during pro-Palestinian protests at the University of New Hampshire and Dartmouth campuses have been charged with trespassing or resisting arrest.

The vote came more than a year after the owner of Leavitt's Country Bakery sued the town over a painting by high school students that's displayed across his storefront, showing the sun shining over a mountain range made of sprinkle-covered chocolate and strawberry doughnuts, a blueberry muffin, a cinnamon roll and other pastries.

New Hampshire lawmakers this year have debated bills that include free speech, so-called "divisive concepts," and book removal policies.

The case centered on whether a judge's order violated the defendant's constitutional rights when it prohibited him from posting the plaintiff's name or image online.

At issue: the doughnut painting above Leavitt's Country Bakery in Conway, which was painted by high school students.

A local gadfly from Exeter was arrested and accused of slandering police. The criminal case was dropped; now the ACLU wants the entire law scrapped.

The Brentwood Newsletter was founded in 1977 to fix a problem: people in town weren’t getting along.“Town meetings were kind of well known for being a bit…

It’s been a year since a high school guidance counselor working in the Exeter school district was sentenced to prison. Kristie Torbick, 39, pleaded guilty…