New Hampshire
Gun-owning New Hampshire teenager sues school officials who searched his truck
CONCORD, N.H. — CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire teenager sued his former high school principal and others Thursday alleging they illegally searched his truck based solely on his status as a gun owner.
Jack Harrington, 18, graduated from Hillsboro-Deering High School in June, about two months after he says he was harassed and interrogated by school officials who subsequently found nothing when they searched his truck in the school parking lot. His lawsuit against the superintendent, principal, vice principal and school resource officer was filed in U.S. District Court by the Second Amendment Foundation.
According to the suit, Harrington told another student that he had been pulled over by police while driving off campus and had informed the officer that his handgun was lawfully stored in the glove box. Weeks later, on April 24, school officials asked him about that conversation, confirmed he owned a gun and began to “badger” him about searching his truck. State law prohibits students from bringing firearms onto school property.
Though Harrington said he never brought the gun to school and had no intention of doing so, the school resource officer told him, “You can say whatever you want, we’re going to search it anyway,” the lawsuit claims.
Courts have found that school officials can conduct such searches if they have a reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed, but Harrington’s attorneys argue that knowledge of gun ownership alone falls far short of that standard.
“Being public about exercising your private rights cannot be grounds for being harassed and searched on campus,” said Bill Sack, director of legal operations for the Second Amendment Foundation. “The apparent position of the school district here is ‘choose to exercise one right, give away another.’ That’s just not how it works.”
Messages seeking comment were left Thursday for Superintendent Jennifer Crawford. Harrington declined a request for an interview. The lawsuit seeks unspecified damages.
New Hampshire
NH Gov. Ayotte taps campaign cash to troll NYC’s Mamdani with billboard luring city biz north
Most often found antagonizing her neighbors across the border in the Bay State, New Hampshire Gov Kelly Ayotte is broadening her horizons.
On Wednesday, the Granite State’s Republican chief executive dipped into her campaign funds to send a billboard around Manhattan encouraging businesses to move north, WMUR-TV reported.
The PR campaign came the day after Zohran Mamdani, the Big Apple’s new Democratic Socialist mayor-elect, romped to victory over former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who had the backing of President Donald Trump.
“So we’re saying welcome, please come to New Hampshire. You’ll have more freedom, lower taxes, and an awesome quality of life,” Ayotte said, according to the station.
Among the messages was one that called New Hampshire “safe, prosperous, free … what New York used to be.”
New Hampshire Democrats were less than enthused, according to the station.
“Those ads would be costing thousands of dollars, and obviously not a big deal for Kelly Ayotte in her campaign. But the timing seems to me a little bit strange, given the food SNAP benefit cut that a lot of Granite Staters are dealing with,” Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Jon Kiper said, according to WMUR-TV.
State Democratic Chairperson Ray Buckley fired back, saying that “unfortunately, Ayotte is nothing but a pathetic political opportunist who is using our state as a billboard prop to serve her own interests,” the station reported.
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The Hampton Beach Casino has the green light to go ahead with a major redevelopment on the popular tourist strip. The town planning board voted unanimously Wednesday night to approve plans to renovate the New Hampshire attraction.
The current site on Ocean Boulevard is more than 100 years old and developers say it “has reached the end of its useful life.” They also say the building is not fully accessible to people with disabilities and lacks modern-day fire and flood prevention measures.
“The ‘Casino’ has a long history – my grandparents used to visit it and the Beach back in the 1920s and 30s. But it is now beyond repair,” Hampton Planning Board chair Sharon Mullen told WBZ-TV.
The new plans call for the casino ballroom capacity to be increased from 2,200 seats to 3,500. It would also have a new charitable gaming venue, a 208-room boutique hotel, 99 residential condominium units, a spa, restaurants and retail space, and a 732-space parking garage.
Developers said demolition work could begin after next summer, and the duration of the construction would be about three years, with the project finishing sometime in 2029 or 2030. A more detailed construction plan will be worked out with the building inspector, the engineering firm working on the project said.
“My expectation is nobody wants us out there building on the weekends in the summer,” TEC CEO Rick Friberg told the board.
The casino is owned by Sal Lupoli, who founded the regional pizza chain Sal’s.
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