Nancy West is a local reporter in New Hampshire.

She's been at it a long time, more than 30 years, and she's got a reputation, blunt,

curmudgeonly, insistent.

Yeah, some places you don't want to drop my name, but that...

Actually, there's a lot of places. Don't drop name all right you know i have more questions so please

don't end the press conference nancy uh do we have time for one more question at press conferences

nancy has a way of raising the temperature in the room i don't know nancy because we have not been

able can i finish no let me finish when nancy starts room. I don't know, Nancy, because we have not been able. Can I finish?

No, let me finish.

When Nancy starts in on something, well, she may never stop.

And that definitely goes for her coverage of cops.

Once you do one story about a police officer who's done something wrong, then you get about 10 tips on another police officer.

So you sort of develop some expertise in that area.

Back in 2006, Nancy worked for the state's biggest paper, the union leader.

One day, she gets one of those tips. And it's a good one. It's a really

good one. The tip was about a lawsuit between two sets of cops. The state troopers believed that

the highway patrol had made illegal websites. Illegal websites. No, really. The websites were the culmination of a long-running

spad between two state police agencies. The public had no idea about any of it. Today, there's just

one state police agency in New Hampshire, but back then there were two. The state troopers and the highway patrol

officers. Both patrolled the state's highways, and neither side seemed to like that very much.

Oh, there was a lot of animosity. The stories from this rivalry, they all have a schoolyard vibe to them.

State troopers were accused of sabotaging highway patrol speed traps.

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