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From today's story on Globe.com:

New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu said he’s considering a bid for president, one of his most direct statements to date about whether he may enter the 2024 race.

“Yes,” Sununu said Sunday when asked by CNN’s Dana Bash on “The State of the Union” whether he was mulling a presidential run. Sununu appeared on the show the same weekend that former president Donald Trump got his campaign underway with visits to New Hampshire and South Carolina.

Although the Republican governor said he does not have a timeline on when he might make an official decision, he cited the Granite State’s “live free or die spirit” as the ideal model for the GOP moving forward, noting that it “works really well” in New Hampshire.

From the story Globe Rhode Island reporter Amanda Milkovitz:

NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — A Davisville Middle School teacher accused of stalking a pre-teen girl he was coaching and harassing other students in his classes is resigning at the end of the school year, according to the lawyer representing the girl’s family.Lawyer Timothy J. Conlon said Friday that he and the family learned about the resignation through other sources the previous day — and not from the School Committee or the administration. The teacher has been on leave since spring 2022 as an investigation into his behavior continues.

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Starting in 2017, the middle-school girl’s family had tried to get school officials to do something about the teacher, who they said had fixated on their daughter and began stalking her. Frustrated by a lack of response, the family filed a formal complaint in 2018 with then-Superintendent Phil Auger, Conlon said.

It wasn’t until the family threatened to get a restraining order that the teacher was made to stop coaching middle-schoolers in North Kingstown. However, the teacher then went to coach in two other school districts and remained as a teacher at Davisville Middle School.

Then in April 2022, Conlon, who is representing current and former students in a case against former high school basketball coach Aaron Thomas brought the family’s allegations to then-interim Superintendent Michael Waterman and the US Attorney’s Office, which is investigating a complaint under Title IV of the Civil Rights Act. Waterman placed the teacher on leave and launched an internal investigation.

Conlon said the school administration said it lost the family’s original complaint. In the meantime, other former students came forward about the Davisville teacher’s behavior. A group of boys had kept a Discord log to track the teacher’s “creepy” behavior toward the girls. A young woman who read about the boys’ “Pedo Database” came forward about her own experiences in the teacher’s classroom, calling him “the worst teacher I ever had.”

From the story in the Globe:

Investigators have found blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement of the Cohasset home where Ana Walshe was living with her husband, Brian R. Walshe, who bought $450 of cleaning supplies before the mother of three was reported missing to authorities, a prosecutor said in court Monday.

During the arraignment of Brian Walshe Monday on a single count of misleading police, Norfolk First Assistant District Attorney Lynn M. Beland described the discoveries police have made since launching a high-profile search for 39-year-old Ana Walshe last week.

Beland said that while executing a search warrant this weekend at the Cohasset home where the couple has been living with their three children, they discovered blood and a damaged knife with blood on it in the basement. Beland did not specify in what way the knife was damaged, nor did she provide details about the bloodstains police found.

Ana Walshe has not been heard from since she left her home around 4 a.m. on New Year’s Day to take a rideshare to Logan International Airport for a flight to Washington, D.C., where she works for a real estate company, family have told police. Investigators have not been able to confirm she took a rideshare, but have determined she did not board a flight from Logan, according to Cohasset police Chief William Quigley.

From the story by reporter Danny MacDonald:

Massachusetts and Rhode Island have lost residents over the past two years, part of an overall population drain in the Northeast, as Americans migrate south and west, according to new US Census figures.

... Rhode Island, meanwhile, saw its population decline by about 3,200 residents between July 2021 and July 2022. The Ocean State topped out at 1,097,371 residents in 2020, but this summer, that figure stood at 1,093,734, according to Census figures.

All told, 18 states experienced a population decline between July 2021 and July 2022. New York, California, and Illinois all experienced six-figure losses in population, which were the biggest decreases in the nation.

The populations of other New England states saw some growth year over year. Maine added about 8,100 residents. New Hampshire added about 7,700. Connecticut added about 2,800, and Vermont grew by a little more than 90 residents.

Overall, however, the Northeast experienced a population drain of nearly 219,000 residents year over year, as the South and West grew by 1.3 million and 153,000, respectively. (The Midwest saw a population decline of nearly 49,000 residents.)

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