Multiple vehicles and homes were robbed in Hanover early Tuesday morning, according to a Hanover Police Department press release. These incidents took place in residential neighborhoods in downtown Hanover, on Barrymore and Woodrow Roads, sometime between midnight and 6 a.m. Four unlocked vehicles and two unlocked homes were burglarized, and the majority of the stolen property consisted of money and electronics. The two homes were occupied when the crimes occurred. Hanover Police said that other properties may have been targeted and urged residents to lock their homes and vehicles. The department asked residents to contact Detective Eric Bates with any information about these or related crimes.
New Hampshire judge Larry Smukler ordered new sentencing hearings for Robert Tulloch, a Vermont teenager convicted for the 2001 slayings of Dartmouth professors Half and Suzanne Zantop, the Burlington Free Press reported. Smukler's ruling came in the wake of a recent Supreme Court decision that makes life sentences without parole for juveniles unconstitutional. Tulloch pleaded guilty to the Zantop murders when he was 17 and was sentenced to life without parole, at the time a mandatory sentence for first-degree murder. In 2001, Tulloch and James Parker, also from Vermont, gained entry to the Zantops' home by posing as students conducting a survey before stabbing the pair to death. Parker, 16 at the time of the murders, testified against Tulloch and was sentenced to 25 years to life. The Supreme Court stated that judges should be able to consider whether peer pressure or a lack of maturity could have contributed to a juvenile's actions.
While top colleges in the country claim they are committed to recruiting low-income applicants, researchers at Georgetown University have found that some of the most competitive private colleges admit fewer poor students than their less prestigious peer institutions, The New York Times reported. The research showed that only 14 percent of students at the most competitive colleges and universities come from families in the bottom 50 percent of the income bracket. That percentage has not changed substantially over the past 20 years. Although about 80 percent of the nation's 50 most selective private colleges have need-blind admissions, low-income students are also less likely to apply to these highly ranked institutions. Students who have never heard of highly-ranked institutions, do not know anyone who has attended one and believe they can not afford to go to one are not likely to apply on their own. Many top private colleges rely on nonprofit groups like Questbridge and the Posse Foundation to help them find qualified disadvantaged applicants.
