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For the second time, an employee of Applied ABC, which provides the Manchester School District with staff assisting special needs students, is under arrest, accused of assaulting two children at Parker-Varney School.
The Hillsborough County Superior Court South grand jury handed up 85 indictments in January.
Dale Holloway, convicted in the shooting of Pentecostal Ministries Bishop Stanley Choate at a wedding at New England Pentecostal Ministries in Pelham in 2019, was sentenced Monday to 40 years to life on an attempted murder charge.
A city man was indicted on 10 charges accusing him of breaking into a church, assaulting police officers and choking and punching a New Hampshire State Police dog named Ivy.
According to the court documents, Louis Efstathiou was fired within an hour of the alleged assault. He worked for Applied ABC, which is contracted by the school district for Registered Behavioral Therapists, who are commonly referred to in the school district as paraprofessionals or paras.
Adam Montgomery’s uncle offered to pay Kayla Montgomery $500 to have Harmony go live with relatives in Florida after the 5-year-old suffered a black eye in the summer of 2019, allegedly at the hands of her father, according to court documents filed by his defense team.
Adam Montgomery, who is to be tried in early February for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, wants a separate trial on a charge accusing him of blackening the child’s eye five months before her death.
A man is hospitalized with a gunshot wound inflicted by a police officer, while a police dog also is receiving emergency treatment after being wounded in the same Friday morning incident.
Prosecutors want jurors to know that Alexandra Eckersley, the woman charged with abandoning her newborn infant in a tent in woods in freezing temperatures in December of 2022, was previously charged with endangering another infant.
A 23-year-old man was justified last April when he shot and killed Rodney Yancey, 43, outside a Bell Street apartment building, according to an investigation by the New Hampshire Department of Justice.
Sophia Bonfiglio and Tyler Cook were planning to relocate to Cape Cod this past Monday, family members said, but those plans were derailed when he allegedly shot and killed her on New Year’s Eve.
Adam Montgomery, who is to be tried in early February for the murder of his 5-year-old daughter, is asking the court to exclude from trial allegations he neglected and assaulted her, and any evidence of his prior convictions.
A homeless man is facing the possibility of life in prison for being in possession of more than five grams of fentanyl with the intent to sell the drug, according to indictments.
John Delee, the Salem man accused in the shooting death of Timothy Pouliot last January outside a downtown bar, was found guilty of his murder on Monday by a Hillsborough County Superior Court North jury.
Men attempting to flirt with a woman and then disrespecting her boyfriend led to the fatal shooting of a city man last month outside the Red Arrow Diner, according to court records.
Assistant Attorney General Scott D. Chase, in his closing argument to a Hillsborough County Superior Court North jury, said Delee, 24, of Salem, didn’t fear Pouliot, a slight man who weighed 121 pounds and was 5-foot-7. Delee was 6-foot-7 and weighed 350 pounds, nearly three times as much as Pouliot.
This information is released monthly by the court to the media and is part of the public record.
John Delee, 24, formerly of Salem but now detained in the Valley Street jail, contends that he shot Pouliot in self-defense, that it was three-on-one, and that Pouliot and his two friends had set him up for a beating.
A disbarred attorney was sentenced to one year in the New Hampshire State Prison in connection with the theft of nearly $360,000 in clients’ funds, including money intended to benefit Honor Flight New England.
Waleed Al Thuwayni, shot twice by Sgt. Derek Feather after the teen pointed a BB gun at him last March, began wailing in court Thursday when Feather said that when Thuwayni did that it resulted in “a response no one intended or wished for you.”