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GREENLAND — The man believed to be the shooter who killed Greenland Police Chief Michael Maloney and shot four other officers was found dead inside his Post Road home around 2 a.m. Friday along with a female aquaintance, Attorney General Michael Delaney said at a 5 a.m. news conference. ...Law enforcement sources said police showed up at the Post Road home to serve a search warrant about 6 p.m., and discovered that a drug deal may have been taking place.

MANCHESTER - A woman hit her boyfriend in the head with a claw hammer while he was asleep on the couch, police said. Natasha Hamer, 32, of 452 Pine St., is under arrest, charged with first-degree assault in the attack on Ryan Defabio, 23, of 370 Amherst St. Defabio was treated at the Elliot Hospital for the injury.

About two dozen Planned Parenthood supporters clad in hot pink shirts protested silently at the governor and council meeting. Two stories above, Governor Lynch and the executive councilors held their biweekly breakfast. Protesters later packed the room at the executive council meeting. They’re upset that family planning contracts were not on the council agenda. Councilors voted in June to end the agency’s $1.8 million dollar contract, which also stripped Planned Parenthood of its ability to dispense birth control and other medications. Twenty-one year old Meredith Ripley from New Boston has no health insurance and until recently, she could get contraceptives...

PELHAM - “I wasn’t going to let him pass me.” That’s what police say a Windham teen told officers at the scene of a motor vehicle crash in Pelham early Friday morning, where the 18-year-old is said to have intentionally crashed his car into a motorcyclist, causing serious injuries. Cody Eller of 123 Lowell Road in Windham was arraigned in Derry District Court Friday morning on a felony charge of second-degree assault and a misdemeanor charge of vehicular assault. Police said Eller was driving south on Windham Road in Pelham around 4:30 a.m. Friday when he noticed a motorcyclist trying...

Campaigning at BAE is rarely a cakewalk for Democrats, and if Jeanne Shaheen was under any illusion that she was going to have an easy morning of it, it was quickly punctured. “We protect those that protect us and we were deeply disappointed.” That was the event’s MC, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Vice President of BAE’s electronic warfare division. “….Deeply disappointed that the state Democratic party, on your behalf, characterized us as war profiteers,. bilking the public. I’d like to know what you were thinking at the time when you sort of let that stand, and to this day it still stands.”...

MERRIMACK — The attorney representing the illegal immigrant charged by New Ipswich police for criminal trespassing will argue state law is being misused and the Vienna Convention was violated when her client was not put in touch with the Mexican Consulate. During an interview in her Merrimack office, Attorney Mona Movafaghi said the Vienna Convention guaranteed the right of her client to contact the Mexican Consulate, but police failed to provide the opportunity. New Ipswich Police Chief W. Garrett Chamberlain charged Jorge Mora Ramirez, 21, with criminal trespass and operating a vehicle without a valid license on April 15. Ramirez...

The American Civil Liberties Union is using sophisticated technology to collect a wide variety of information about its members and donors in a fund-raising effort that has ignited a bitter debate over its leaders' commitment to privacy rights. Some board members say the extensive data collection makes a mockery of the organization's frequent criticism of banks, corporations and government agencies for their practice of accumulating data on people for marketing and other purposes. Daniel S. Lowman, vice president for analytical services at Grenzebach Glier & Associates, the data firm hired by the A.C.L.U., said the software the organization is using,...