Former Executive Councilor Russell Prescott will challenge U.S. Rep. Chris Pappas in November after winning the Republican primary for the 1st Congressional District.

Prescott, of Kingston, was a state senator for five terms from 2010 to 2016 and later represented Executive Council District 3 from 2017 to 2021. 

He emerged ahead of a crowded field of Republican contenders Tuesday with 26 percent of the vote, beating out Hollie Noveletsky (23 percent) and Joe Kelly Lavasseur (22 percent), with 94 percent of votes counted.

A former engineer, Prescott founded a business, R.E. Prescott Company, that manufactures water treatment systems. 

He will face Pappas, who was first elected in 2018, on Nov. 5. 

Joyce Craig, who led Manchester for three terms as its first female mayor, won the Democratic nomination for governor Tuesday.

She will try to flip the office blue after eight years under Republican Gov. Chris Sununu, who did not seek a fifth term in office. Craig defeated Cinde Warmington, a Democratic executive councilor and health care attorney from Concord, and restaurant owner Jon Kiper. The Associated Press called the race at 9:48 p.m. 

With 64 percent of votes counted, Craig captured 48 percent of the vote, with Warmington getting 41 percent and Kiper 10 percent

Craig withstood attacks from both Warmington and Republican candidate Kelly Ayotte on her record as mayor, with her opponents attacking her over homelessness and drug overdoses in the city. 

On the campaign trail, she cast her tenure as mayor as a success and emphasized issues like abortion rights and affordable housing. She has called Ayotte an extreme Republican and criticized Warmington for her 2002 lobbying work for Purdue Pharma, makers of the addictive painkiller oxycontin. 

Craig was born and raised in Manchester and resides there with her family. She began her political career on the city’s Board of School Committee before spending six years as an alderman. She was mayor of Manchester from 2018 until this January. 

New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu stepped in to aid a choking this weekend, performing the Heimlich maneuver in front of a crowd of people gathered to watch an eating contest.

Video shows Sununu grabbing the man, Christian Moreno, and performing several abdominal compressions until the food – in this case, a lobster roll – was dislodged.

Moreno participated in the lobster roll eating contest at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival on September 8. He attempted to eat as many lobster rolls as possible in 10 minutes. After a couple of rolls, though, he began choking.

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Quick thinking: ‘That was the governor?’

Sununu, who had been addressing the crowd earlier, noticed that Moreno was in distress, and quickly intervened, wrapping his arms around Moreno and performing the Heimlich maneuver.

“I started saying, ‘He’s choking, he’s choking,’ and I could tell people weren’t responding. So I just moved forward and immediately started to kind of give him the Heimlich,” Sununu told WMUR, adding, “It was crazy because it wasn’t so much the jumping in and doing it – I mean, that was wild in itself – but there was so much commotion.”

A paramedic soon took over for Sununu and freed the bits of lobster roll from Moreno’s throat, at which point he continued eating. Moreno eventually finished having consumed nine lobster rolls.

Having taken his glasses off before the contest, it wasn’t until later that Moreno realized it had been the New Hampshire Governor performing the Heimlich maneuver on him.

“My counter came up to me and, like, made a joke. And was like, ‘Oh, like, I bet nobody else can say that they’ve gotten a Heimlich from the governor before.’” Moreno told WMUR. “And I looked at him, and was just like, that was, that was the governor?”

Max Hauptman is a Trending Reporter for USA TODAY. He can be reached at MHauptman@gannett.com