New Hampshire Government News

NRCC - With Unemployment Still at Double Digits, New Hampshirites Are Growing Tired of Asking Carol Shea-Porter Saturday, December 5, 2009 at 07:43AM Washington- After consecutive months of increasingly startling unemployment numbers, Carol Shea-Porter's stimulus is undoubtedly a failure.

A former Southern New Hampshire Medical Center nurse pleaded guilty in federal court Thursday to stealing pain medication from the hospital for her own use and replacing it with saline.

" With the New Hampshire House of Representatives set to return for another session in January, Representative Robert Rowe, who represents the towns of Amherst and Milford, has submitted legislation that would bring some relief to the taxpayers of the State.

A federal health insurance lifeline for the unemployed is being reeled back in, tripling the cost of health insurance for some unemployed people.

When the AIDS epidemic began in the early 1980s, all doctors could do for their patients was help to fight off infections.

Three adoption-related articles currently on the newswire: Today, birth parents often welcome contact, but before the 1970s and 1980s closed adoptions were the norm and records were sealed tightly at birth.

Massachusetts' loss is Juliana Aquino's gain. The 27-year-old mother of two could have done her Black Friday shopping at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Methuen, where she lives.

The Concord Monitor says the plans will be officially announced on Monday. The new rules will allow for one online renewal every 10 years.

In recent weeks Kelly Ayotte has been pushing a GOP establishment-sponsored health care plan that would give insurance companies control over the health care of New Hampshire families.

Universities rarely report their researchersa financial conflicts of interest to the government as is required for government-funded research, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report issued on Thursday.

The good news, if you will, is New Hampshire's budget is only 7 percent behind its target, and within striking distance of being accurate.

The New Hampshire Department of Labor launched a new Web site that allows the public to report possible misclassifications of employers or other employment violations.

School officials in Pelham said an student in the district has died from complications from H1N1.

More than 7,000 Medicare recipients in Maine and New Hampshire are at risk of losing their prescription drug plan if they do not act before Dec.

Chris Adamski said about 45,000 swine flu vaccine doses had been administered as of last week and more vaccine is coming to the state on a weekly basis.

The Gundalow Company will host a free showing of "Poisoned Waters" at 7 p.m. Sunday at Strawbery Banke Museum's Tyco Visitors Center.

To increase public education as part of efforts to limit effect of the H1N1 flu, the state has launched a new Web site designed to present information about the pandemic and ways to respond.

New Hampshire Department of Corrections Commissioner William L. Wrenn announced that several employee in-service training courses will now be provided electronically through E-learning. The courses include Harassment and Discrimination, Responding to Correctional Emergencies, Fire Response and Evacuation, Warning Signs of an Impending Disturbance, ...

Last week, the legislature of the "Live Free or Die" state failed to overturn a veto of a bill decriminalizing the medicinal use of marijuana for chronically and terminally ill patients .

Ryan Murphy, a 23-year-old, National Guardsman from Manchester, made history Wednesday in becoming the first person during the Lynch administration era to plead his case for a pardon before the Executive Council.