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A Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District jury deliberated for about six hours Monday without reaching a verdict in the case of Stephen Murphy, accused of repeatedly raping a teenage boy he was supposed to mentor at the Youth Development Center.
Stephen Murphy took the stand Friday and in a booming voice said that allegations he sexually assaulted David Meehan 28 years ago are “absolutely false and baseless.”
he state on Thursday rested its case against Stephen Murphy, a former Youth Development Center youth counselor charged with eight counts of raping a teen 27-28 years ago at the state’s juvenile detention center.
David Meehan, taking long pauses and deep breaths at times, testified Wednesday to being forced to perform fellatio on Stephen Murphy, during their “one-on-one” counseling sessions at the Youth Development Center in the late 1990s.
For the second time this year, Stephen Murphy is sitting in a courtroom being tried on allegations he repeatedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old boy 28 years ago at the Youth Development Center, the state’s juvenile detention center.
A city man is charged with selling cocaine and fentanyl to a local man who later died from an overdose.
A Concord man was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a 60-year-old man in a Union Street apartment last May.
A city man was given a suspended sentence in the killing of a 5-month-old puppy after he pleaded guilty Wednesday to a felony count of animal cruelty.
Still, William Farnsworth, 32, was led away in handcuffs from a Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District court because he also pleaded guilty to possession of more than five grams of fentanyl. That resulted in Judge Amy Messer sentencing him to 1 ½ to 7 years in the New Hampshire State Prison.
A 34-year-old city drug dealer, found guilty of selling fentanyl to one man who, in turn, sold it to a third man who died of an overdose, was sentenced Monday to 20 to 40 years in prison.
Some wanted the Sununu Youth Services Center (SYSC) property to remain as it is, others wanted it to feature starter and smaller homes for seniors, still others complained River Road couldn’t take any more traffic and others wanted to know how the state could sell the property, given covenants on it.
A Manchester woman, who once held a contract to redevelop the former Laconia State School, was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in federal prison for bilking 24 investors out of more than $3 million.
A city man, arrested in June on felony charges connected to a crash that killed an 11-month-old toddler, is now facing upgraded charges of negligent homicide and reckless manslaughter.
The teenager who killed his sister-in-law and two young nephews three years ago in their Northfield home was sentenced Friday to 60 years-to-life in prison.
James Woodlock was led out of a courtroom in handcuffs Monday after a jury found him guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to the rape of a teenage boy 28 years ago at the Youth Development Center.
James Woodlock is either a man who beat and choked a 16-year-old boy and acted as a lookout so his Youth Development Center co-workers could rape the teen, as prosecutors contend, or he is an innocent man accused of horrific acts that he says never happened, per the defense
The trial of James Woodlock, a former Youth Development Center youth counselor accused of being an accomplice to the rape of David Meehan dating back 28 years when he was a 14-year-old boy detained in the juvenile facility, opened Tuesday.
Hunter Nadeau, accused of killing a man having dinner with his wife and daughter at a local country club, waived arraignment Monday on a second-degree murder charge.
The harm or threats charge, a class B felony, alleges Anderson “knowingly threatened to commit the crime of homicide and/or assault against Gov. Ayotte, for the purpose of influencing such official’s action or in retaliation for action taken as part of such official’s’ government duties.”
The owner of a West Side unlicensed daycare center where the children’s food was laced with melatonin so they would sleep, was sentenced to community service after she pleaded guilty to reckless conduct and falsifying evidence.
Jonathan Brand, a former supervisor at a state-run youth detention facility, was found not guilty of sexually molesting a 14-year-old boy 18 years ago.