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DOVER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire sheriff who resigned after he was accused of stealing $19,000 in county funds was sentenced Monday to 3 1/2 to seven years in prison on perjury charges. Prosecutors had asked for a seven-to-14-year sentence for Mark Brave. ... Brave, 39, was elected as Strafford County sheriff in 2020. At the time, he was both the youngest sheriff and the first Black man to serve as a sheriff in the state. He was arrested in 2023 and charged with eight felonies following an investigation into accusations that he misused county credit cards. Brave called...

A New Hampshire Supreme Court Justice has been indicted by a grand jury for allegedly trying to interfere in an open investigation of her husband. In an Oct. 16 statement from the New Hampshire Department of Justice, Attorney General John Formella said the Merrimack County grand jury had indicted Justice Anna Barbara Hantz Marconi for two felonies and five misdemeanors. All the charges relate to her alleged attempts to interfere with a criminal investigation into her husband, Geno Marconi. “The decision to charge a sitting Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court was not made lightly, and it comes after...

Hundreds of local citizens turned out to the Windham, New Hampshire, meeting at city hall with elected officials -- and they did not hold back. The Windham Board of Selectmen met at the Town Hall for its weekly meeting but when hundreds of people arrived, they caused the members to call for a recess and move the meeting to the Windham High School Auditorium. The scheduled meeting contained an item about auditing the November 2020 vote on the agenda that has gained national attention. The crowd grew more and more frustrated after the board was not addressing their concerns. Dozens...

CONCORD, NH - A computer programmer who has raised red flags for a number of years about the hackability of some electronic voting machines, including the optical scanning machines used in New Hampshire, has been named as the state's representative for the Windham 2020 election audit. Harri Hursti, the co-founder of ROMmon and a computer scientist from Finland, has been chosen by Secretary of State Bill Gardner and New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella. Formella and Gardner informed Windham Town Counsel Bernard Campbell as well as Mark Lindeman, the acting-co-director of Verified Voting, who was chosen by the Windham Board...