CONCORD — A 31-year-old Derry man was sentenced to nearly six years in federal prison for possessing child pornography.
A search warrant executed on David Morel’s computer found “numerous videos” depicting young children engaging in sexually explicit conduct, federal officials said.
Morel received the 70-month jail term after pleading guilty to one count of possession of child pornography last Dec. 21. | More…
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While I am a strong advocate for repealing Obamacare, I have yet to analyze the replacement plan, and so my opinion on it is simply not yet developed. This is about the misleading propaganda and tactics Sen. Shaheen invoked in her opposition of it.
During a morning scroll through social media one day this past week, I saw a graphic from Sen. Shaheen that her office had heard from “more than 5,500 constituents on Republican Leadership’s Healthcare Repeal Bill” and noted 5,461 oppose it and only 108 support it. I didn’t “wow” at that, it sounded silly. I talk to people of all walks of life and the gap between those who want to keep Obamacare and those who want to replace it with pretty much anything simply isn’t that wide. I continued to scroll away and got my answer. Sen. Shaheen’s office was a doing a solicitation campaign via email asking people to email HowACAHelpedMe@shaheen.senate.gov. | Home…
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PORTSMOUTH — A Pennsylvania woman pleaded guilty on Monday to making false statements on family visa applications.
According to Acting United States Attorney John J. Farley, the woman submitted the family visa application to the National Passport Center in Portsmouth.
Anna Delarosa, 57, of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, forged statements to try and obtain a family visa to bring the rest of her family from the Dominican Republic to the United States, Farley said. | More..
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New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady has long been considered one of the best players of all time by fans of the team. Now, the players he faces on the field are ranking him as the best in the game.
Brady was voted the league’s top player in the NFL Network’s annual top-100 poll, a ranking based on a tabulation of 902 players. |More…
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MILTON – The Board of Selectmen’s new chairman said today he hoped recent controversy roiling the town’s major governing body could be put to rest now that he has been installed as its new leader. The board’s dysfunction in recent months came to a head a week ago as the board’s newest selectman, Ryan
The board’s dysfunction in recent months came to a head a week ago as the board’s newest selectman, Ryan Thibeault, pointedly accused former board chair Mike Beaulieu of ignoring Right to Know protocols to the point that Town Attorney Jim Sessler had tendered his resignation, saying he couldn’t protect the town anymore.
“I got a letter from town attorney saying he is resigning over concerns that if the Board of Selectmen keeps going the way it is, he can’t protect it,” Thibeault said after counting off a list of alleged Right to Know violations he said were committed by Beaulieu in recent weeks. | Source (*subscription required)
The mayor’s office of the small town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky, has gone to the dogs. Literally, as once again — and for the fourth time — the voters have elected a dog as their mayor.
This month, a three-year-old rescue pit bull named Brynneth Pawltro defeated a cat, a chicken, a donkey, and several other furry contestants to become mayor of the town situated on the Ohio River…More
Transportation Security Administration agents at Logan Airport’s Terminal C in Boston snapped to attention Sunday, when they came across a live 20-pound lobster lurking in a cooler among the checked luggage.
“The lobster was screened and allowed to continue on its way,” TSA spokesman Michael McCarthy tells NPR in an email. | More…
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A female shopper called police after finding that a man was following her around the Westchester Commons Target store. At one point, she said, the man put a cell phone in a basket on the floor and pushed it toward her, according to a report by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
“She soon noticed a shopping basket on the floor near her with a phone in it; the phone’s camera was facing up in an apparent attempt to take photos up her skirt,” a police report said. | More…
The European Union’s competition watchdog has slapped a record 2.42 billion euro ($2.72 billion) fine on internet giant Google for breaching antitrust rules with its online shopping service.
European regulators said Tuesday that “Google has abused its market dominance as a search engine by giving an illegal advantage to another Google product, its comparison shopping service.” | More…
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What do you get when you get five hundred libertarians to go camping together in the woods of New Hampshire? One of the most inspiring examples of people walking the walk of their ideology, as opposed to merely talking the talk.
PorcFest (short for Porcupine, the libertarian equivalent of the other parties’ elephant and donkey) is an annual gathering that celebrates the Free State Project, an initiative aimed at transforming New Hampshire into a beacon of freedom and opportunity for the nation. | More…
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