Hanover, N.H., is the kind of small New England town where it seems like everyone always gets along. It was voted the second best place to live in the U.S. in a 2007 Money magazine survey. But, now, this close knit community is being ripped apart.
"It has deeply affected the town. I think the town has become divided over it. I think we were shocked by it to begin with," said local resident Aine Donovan.
They're shocked by a cheating scandal, at the local public high school, which started last June as pressure was building towards final exams.
Nine students allegedly broke into the school to steal math and chemistry exams, and share them with their friends. They've been nicknamed "the notorious nine." Instead of suspending or failing the students, school officials called the police.
"It's very scary, because you try to protect them, but when the police come along and won't listen to reason, you don't know where to go," said Jim Kenyon, whose son Nicholas is one of the students now facing criminal charges a punishment Kenyon calls draconian.
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