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The body of a Cambridge man, missing since mid-April when he went hiking in the White Mountains, has been found in New Hampshire.
William Donovan, 63, had been missing since April 16, and authorities previously found his car with pieces of hiking gear at the Crawford Path in Carroll, N.H.
His body was found Monday around 10:20 a.m. by a search team in the Dry River, according to New Hampshire Fish and Game. The team headed to the area after gear and a jacket believed to belong to Donovan were found in the river over the weekend by hikers.
“This evidence helped focus the search area and Donovan’s body was ultimately located approximately 400 feet upstream from where the jacket was discovered,” the department said.
According to officials, it took hours for the search team to free the Cambridge man’s remains from underneath a large boulder, just over 2.5 miles from Route 302.
It remains unclear why Donovan, who was reportedly an avid hiker, was in the area, according to the fish and game department.
“It is also unknown how he entered the water, but it appears he was somehow forced from the ridge by high winds or other adverse weather conditions between Mt. Monroe and Mt. Eisenhower,” officials said.
An autopsy by the state medical examiner is pending.
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CONCORD, N.H. – New Hampshire lawmakers have moved to reject a Republican-backed proposal to launch an impeachment inquiry into the lone Democrat on the state’s five-member Executive Council.
On Friday, a key committee of lawmakers delivered a unanimous 17-0 vote against an impeachment inquiry into Executive Councilor Karen Liot Hill of Lebanon, N.H.
The vote on House Resolution 41 followed an abbreviated public hearing, after the bill’s sponsor withdrew his support for the proposal and instead asked lawmakers on the committee to recommend killing it.
The push for Liot Hill’s impeachment was led by Representative Joe Sweeney, a Salem Republican and the deputy majority leader in the New Hampshire House.
At issue were several emails Liot Hill had sent from her official account to help a partisan law firm identify voters impacted by a new state law. The law tightened voter ID requirements for absentee ballots.
Sweeney had previously called Liot Hill’s correspondence “political lawfare run out of a taxpayer-funded inbox.” In December, a review by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office found that Liot Hill’s conduct was not illegal and did not constitute a misuse of office, clearing the complaint against her.
Reached by the Globe on Friday, Sweeney, who was not present at the public hearing, said in a statement he preferred to let voters decide whether Liot Hill should continue to serve in the upcoming November election.
“After reviewing the matter and hearing the discussion, I believe the appropriate course is to move forward and allow the voters and the political process to do their work,” he said.
“The purpose of filing the resolution was to ensure that the constitutional questions raised were addressed seriously and transparently,” he said, noting that he stands by the process and the decision to recommend killing the resolution.
In an interview, Liot Hill said she was pleased with the unanimous vote from the House Judiciary Committee.
“The committee vote, I think, sends the message that there was no merit to this,” she said.
The proposal now heads to the full House of Representatives, which has the power to approve the committee’s recommendation to reject it.
Amanda Gokee can be reached at amanda.gokee@globe.com. Follow her @amanda_gokee.
A woman has been arrested in connection with the death of her baby whose body was found in a pond in Manchester, New Hampshire last year. Hepay Juma, 26, of Manchester, is now charged with reckless second-degree murder.
The New Hampshire Attorney General said Juma was arrested for “causing the death of Baby Jane “Grace” Doe, her child, under circumstances manifesting an extreme indifference to the value of human life.”
On March 27, 2025, the baby’s body was found floating in the water at Pine Island Park in Manchester. The baby’s death was treated as suspicious following an autopsy.
Investigators have not released any information about how they made the arrest or how the baby died.
At the time, Manchester Police Chief Peter Marr said the baby’s death was “extremely tragic.”
Police asked the public for help after the baby’s body was discovered. They wanted to know if anyone saw someone discarding anything in the water in the previous 14 days, or if anyone knew a pregnant woman who gave birth during that time who needed medical help.
A funeral was held for baby Grace Doe last May, and the public was invited to pay their respects. “The way she was discarded is heartbreaking, and it is important that we give her a proper farewell,” Chief Marr said last year.
The baby was named Grace by police “to celebrate the kindness extended to her by those who refuse to let her life go unrecognized.”
Juma is scheduled to be arraigned on Friday in Manchester District Court.
A man was found dead after an early morning house fire in Windsor, New Hampshire, on Thursday.
The Hillsboro Fire Department was called to the home on Stone Circle by a neighbor just before 4 a.m., according to the State Fire Marshal’s Office. When crews arrived they found a single-family home nearly burned to the ground, and began searching for one person believed inside.
One person, an adult man, was found dead. He has not been publicly identified at this time.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, though investigators do not think it is suspicious. Fire officials believe the fire had been burning for some time before first responders arrived.
Firefighters from Henniker, Deering, Antrim, and Washington assisted with the call.
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