Kim Fallon News Today

With just two forensic pathologists in NH’s office – Drs. Jennie Duval and Mitchell Weinberg – that means no more than 600 autopsies per year.

Due to staffing shortages plaguing medical examiner offices nationwide, that’s not happening in New Hampshire, less than 50 percent of drugs deaths in New Hampshire are getting autopsied.

Fentanyl, either taken by itself or mixed with another drug, accounts for 259 of New Hampshire's 297 overdose deaths so far in 2023.

It has been nearly a decade since the opioid epidemic erupted in New Hampshire. At its peak, more than 450 Granite Staters died from drug overdoses in one year, and the volume of deaths forced the state to curtail autopsies.

New Hampshire law requires that city and town welfare departments pay for the cremation and burial services of unclaimed people, and those whose family and friends can’t afford to or live too far away.

A ground-level crypt inside the peaceful Mount Calvary mausoleum is flanked by butter yellow tulips and bright chrysanthemums. Late in the day, sunlight pours through an adjacent stained-glass window, painting it in colors of sea glass – translucent...

Hershey Elementary School is combining STEM learning with the Iditarod dog-sled race in Alaska, by asking students to guide a robotic "dog" through a miniature course through block coding.