An attorney who helped design the 9/11 victims’ compensation fund says New Hampshire lawmakers have undermined the fairness of a settlement program for abuse victims at the state’s youth detention center.

A New Hampshire judge has declared a mistrial in the case of a former youth detention center worker charged with raping a teenage boy in 1998.

Authorities are issuing cease-and-desist orders against two Texas companies they believe were connected to robocalls that used artificial intelligence to mimic President Joe Biden’s voice and discourage people from voting in New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary last month.

The New Hampshire attorney general’s office says it is investigating reports of an apparent robocall that used artificial intelligence to mimic President Joe Biden’s voice and discourage voters in the state from participating in Tuesday’s primary election.

New Hampshire’s attorney general has ordered national Democratic party leaders to stop calling the state’s unsanctioned presidential primary “meaningless,” saying doing so violates state law.

New Hampshire prosecutors cite the statute of limitations when asked why a broad investigation into abuse allegations at the state’s youth detention center that began more than four years ago has yielded only 11 arrests, none in the last 2½ years.

Authorities say the gunman who was killed after shooting to death a security guard at a New Hampshire psychiatric hospital has been identified.

The New Hampshire attorney general says a sheriff has been arrested and charged with eight felonies as part an investigation into accusations he misused county credit cards.

Police say they have arrested the father of a New Hampshire girl who disappeared at age 5 in 2019 but was not reported missing until late last year.

New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella says spending $100 million to settle sexual abuse claims at the state's youth detention center is the right thing to do for both victims and the government.