Posts by Pat Grossmith
Have you always wanted to be a police officer but believed that joint you smoked in college or that “Mom” tattoo on your arm precluded you from joining Manchester’s finest? Think again.
A judge denied the request of a man who wanted to be released from the Valley Street jail to enter a treatment program saying he recalled the case involved the recovery of a significant amount of drugs and a loaded gun, found inside a child’s toy.
Assistant Hillsborough County Attorney Norm Lazarow said Connor Shaughnessy threatened his father with a gun, racketed an AK-47 and had more than 15 firearms within the home.
George England, who was living at the homeless shelter at 199 Manchester St. on Wednesday when the Elm Street Citizens Bank was robbed on Wednesday, remains hospitalized at Catholic Medical Center. On Friday, a bail hearing was held for England in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District. England listened in via telephone from the hospital while attorneys appeared via WebEx.
A city man, charged with reckless conduct for shooting at a car in a parking lot across the street from Manchester police headquarters, waived arraignment Tuesday on one felony count of reckless conduct.
Seven days after a Valley Street jail administrator told county commissioners he was working with state health officials to comply with Centers for Disease Control COVID-19 guidelines, a Superior Court judge ordered a COVID-19 positive inmate released and said he should “immediately report to a local emergency room to be assessed by a doctor.”
This week, league president Maria Brown discovered vandals had struck again, this time breaking doors to its concession shed and stealing its restaurant-style racks used to hold snacks and candy.
On Monday, a day to celebrate Martin Luther King but also designated as National Service Day, volunteers gathered inside the newly relocated Families in Transition-New Horizon’s Food Pantry to stock shelves, sort through products and just get things ready to serve those in need in the community.
Police Chief Allen Aldenberg will be the featured guest Monday night on Supply The Why, a live Facebook webcast featuring conversations about difficult topics.
Investigators are asking for the public’s help in determining the whereabouts of a 69-year-old woman in the hours before she was found dead on Dec. 30, 2020, near a city baseball complex.
Steps are already underway to ensure solid communications between newly elected Hillsborough County Attorney John Coughlin and the Manchester Police Department.
Another 27 staff members also tested positive for COVID-19, according to Lori Shibinette, commissioner of the New Hampshire State Department of Health and Human Services (NH DHHS).
The state of New Hampshire routinely and unlawfully places abused and neglected older teens, many suffering from mental health issues, in institutions rather than with relatives who want them or with foster families, according to a class-action federal lawsuit.
The administration of the Valley Street jail has a “cavalier” attitude when it comes to treatment of inmates who have tested positive for COVID-19, a Superior Court judge said in ordering the release to home confinement of a man who tested positive for the coronavirus at the state’s largest jail.
The accused shooter and victim in last week’s Hall Street incident are former cellmates at the Northern NH Correctional Facility in Berlin, according to court documents.
A man accused of throwing a glass vase at a hotel clerk who asked him to put on a mask was ordered held in preventative detention.
On Monday, city officials and those who work daily with the homeless gathered at the New Horizons/Families in Transition Shelter, 199 Manchester St., to remember these individuals on the 30th anniversary of the National Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day.
Businesses behind the “Tower of Toys,” an annual event where those in need can select Christmas presents for children in their family without having to fill out an application of financial need, anticipated more people would be seeking help this year than in years past. What they didn’t envision, however, is the real possibility that they will run out of gifts by Saturday, on the second day of a selection process that was to take five days.
Heidi Kukla, a registered nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at the Elliot Hospital, on Tuesday became the first person in New Hampshire to receive the Phizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine.
Two people were found dead Monday at Tall Pines, an apartment complex on Bodwell Road in the south end of the city about a mile from the Londonderry town line.