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A judge has fined the New Hampshire publisher of a weekly community newspaper $620 after finding her guilty of five misdemeanor charges that she ran advertisements for local races without properly marking them as political advertising. The judge had acquitted Debra Paul, publisher of the Londonderry Times, of a sixth misdemeanor charge following a bench trial in November. Paul initially faced a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail and a $2,000 fine on each charge.
Ahead of what is poised to be an election season saturated with political ads, state regulators are struggling to grapple with enforcing their regulations.