Posts by Pat Grossmith
A 21-year-old city man was sentenced Thursday to six months in the Valley Street jail for injuring his infant daughter by shaking her.
A jury found a city man, who failed to appear in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District mid-trial, guilty of raping a woman twice and physically assaulting her.
Two Manchester residents face the prospect of up to life in prison after being indicted on charges of selling large amounts of fentanyl in the city, according to indictments brought by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
A Manchester man was sentenced to 30-years in prison for beating a man to death last year near Manchester Central High School.
Kim Kossick, a public defender in the Manchester office since 2006, is asking a judge to impose monetary sanctions against Hillsborough County Attorney Coughlin and order him to take down a website, which attacks her and which she says violates the rights of her client, Amuri Diole. She maintains it could taint a potential jury pool.
Alexandra Eckersley, found guilty of abandoning her newborn infant in a makeshift tent on a frigidly cold winter night nearly two years ago, on Thursday was given suspended sentences.
A 22-year-old city man was indicted for attempted murder in a Goffstown shooting two years ago in which a man was shot in the abdomen.
In a small dedication ceremony on Friday Grove Street, between Elm and Willow streets, was renamed to honor the city’s first Black female land owner, Samantha Plantin.
According to the indictments, on July 7, 2024, Pierce, who was naked, picked up a paver and tried to strike the 86-year-old man in the head with it while yelling “I’m going to kill you.” He also is accused of repeatedly hitting Ned Tarmey in the head with a patio chair, causing him to suffer a brain injury, and repeatedly punched him while yelling, “You’re going to die. I’m going to kill you.”
Terry O’Leary, 65, said it is the third time in a few years that sprinklers have caused damage to other residents’ apartments. The first time, she said, a resident on the eighth floor fell asleep. The food he had left on the stove burned, started a fire and set off the sprinklers. Water poured down from the eighth floor to the first floor, causing water damage to apartments below.