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NH teens challenge Trump's order banning them from girls' sports
Two students challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender athletes on girls sports teams will also fight President Donald Trump’s executive order, “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports,” after a judge approved their request Wednesday....
...It’s believed to be the first time that the constitutionality of the executive order signed by Trump last week is being challenged in court, according to Boston-based GLBTQ Legal Advocates &...
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Marriage license links Calif. murder suspect, Vt. Border Patrol agent killing suspect
A man accused of murder in California appears to have sought a marriage license with a woman charged in connection with the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
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Man convicted of holding down boy while he was raped at a youth center gets 20- to 40-year sentence
A former leader at a New Hampshire youth detention center who was convicted of holding down a teen while he was raped in 1998 was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison. Bradley Asbury, now 70, was found guilty in November on two counts of being an accomplice to aggravated sexual assault. Asbury had pleaded not guilty. “With…
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Woman charged in killing of Border Patrol agent in Vermont was in contact with homicide suspect
Federal prosecutors say a Washington state woman charged in connection with the fatal shooting of U.S. border patrol agent in Vermont had been in frequent contact with someone whom authorities have linked to homicides in Pennsylvania and California.
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Assumption students charged in TikTok-inspired ‘Catch a Predator' plot appear in court
Five Massachusetts college students made their first appearances in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man through a dating app into visiting campus last fall and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok. The students, all teens at Assumption University, a private, Roman Catholic school in Worcester, were arraigned on conspiracy and…
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New documentary focuses on Christa McAuliffe's impact as a teacher in NH
Before Christa McAuliffe was an astronaut, she was a vibrant teacher in New England keen on showing her students how everyday people left extraordinary marks on U.S. history. Nearly four decades later, a new documentary focuses on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger. “Christa: From Ordinary to Extraordinary” from New...
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Should a man who killed 2 Ivy League professors as a teen continue serving life without parole?
A judge wants New Hampshire’s highest court to weigh in on the case of a man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors and is challenging his sentence of life without parole. Robert Tulloch, 41, was 17 when he killed Half and Susanne Zantop as part of a conspiracy he…
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Court hears cases on NH transgender girls playing high school sports
Two lawsuits about transgender girl athletes — one challenging a state ban at schools and the other on the right to protest transgender athletes’ participation on girls teams — were the subject of hearings in federal court in New Hampshire on Thursday.
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Parents sue over wristband protest against transgender girl at NH soccer game
Three parents and a grandparent have sued a New Hampshire school district, saying their rights were violated when they were barred from school grounds for wearing pink wristbands with “XX,” representing the female chromosome pair, in protest of a transgender girl playing in a girls soccer game.
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Man who killed 2 Dartmouth professors as a teen is challenging his sentence
A man who pleaded guilty as a teenager to the 2001 stabbing deaths of two married Dartmouth College professors is challenging his life-without-parole sentence, saying that the New Hampshire Constitution prohibits it. Robert Tulloch was 17 when he killed Half Zantop and Susanne Zantop in Hanover as part of a conspiracy he and his best friend concocted to rob and…
