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A Superior Court judge closed a hearing Tuesday afternoon concerning the mental health evaluation conducted of a 19-year-old city man accused of stabbing three Manchester police officers last year during a domestic call.
Tuesday morning, the FBI raided several properties associated with a libertarian-styled group referred to as Free Keene.
The 1269 Café was forced to relocate from the former Manchester police station last year after its landlord employed hard-nose tactics including sending in armed security guards to patrol the grounds; barring clients from using common bathrooms; towing a café car from a permitted parking space, and filing eviction papers, though the café was in full compliance with the lease.
There were 226 indictments handed up last week for the month of February by a grand jury sitting in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District, which makes indictments available as part of the public record.
n setting bail at $5,000 cash, Judge David Anderson said the state fell slightly short of providing clear and convincing evidence that Bixby was a danger to the community. However, he said the $300 cash bail the defense requested was insufficient. Should Bixby post bail, she is to live with her parents in Parsonsfield, Maine.
In the year since a lawsuit was filed alleging sexual and physical abuse of more than 30 children at the state-run youth detention center, the case has expanded to more than 230 children spanning six decades, according to recent court filings.
File this one under “think before you drink and dial,” the case of a Manchester man accused of threatening Gov. Chris Sununu in a profanity-laced message left for him last year on his office voicemail.
A Black teen from Nashua, sentenced to 30 days in jail on a misdemeanor riot charge connected to last June’s Black Lives Matters protests, wants to withdraw his guilty plea because co-defendants sentenced so far – most of whom are White – received no jail time.
At last week’s meeting of the Board of Mayor and Aldermen, Alderman-at-Large Joe Kelly Levasseur questioned why convicted sexual offenders are allowed to stay at the city’s homeless shelters.
In Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District on Monday, the court sealed motions concerning bail at the request of defense attorney Brian Civale. He also asked the hearing concerning bail be closed to the public as well.
On Friday morning, in the massive parking lot of Comcast on East Industrial Drive, cars – five across and 20 deep – were lined up waiting to obtain a 30-pound box of food at the state’s largest Mobile Food Pantry.
More than 200 people tuned in for the 30-minute Q&A with Police Chief Alan Aldenberg.
A Circuit Court judge accused of altering court records has resigned from the bench under an agreement signed Tuesday with the New Hampshire Judicial Conduct Committee.
The girlfriend of a man accused of leaving severed rabbit heads on her car said he has a history of abusing animals and liked to crush rodents with his hands “because he wanted to see them die,” according to court documents.
A man wanted for the murder of a 67-year-old man outside the former Manchester police station was the focus of an hours-long manhunt involving Manchester and State police in the south end of the city near Londonderry.
Police are seeking a 38-year-old in connection with the shooting death of Jean Lascelle, 67, outside a shelter Saturday morning.
A Circuit Court judge routinely signed documents sent to her for approval from a marital master without reading them, a practice that ultimately led to her investigation by the Judicial Conduct Committee and her arrest Thursday on five criminal offenses.
A parking control officer filed a complaint last month against Alderman-at-Large Joe Kelly Levasseur who she alleged verbally accosted her after she issued a $50 ticket for him parking his car in a zone reserved for city buses on Elm Street.
A Goffstown man scammed Hannaford Supermarket out of more than $1,500 worth of food by scanning universal product code (UPC) labels for 33-cent Kool-Aid packs instead of the much pricier UPCs affixed to expensive meats and seafood, according to indictments.
A city man who last May pointed a gun at peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Manchester Police Department was sentenced Monday to 12 months in the Valley Street jail after he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of criminal threatening.