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Judge David A. Anderson, presiding in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District, on Tuesday sentenced Christopher Lacerte, 22, on one count of first-degree assault with a firearm, imposing the maximum sentenced allowed under law.
A Manchester man, employed as a paraprofessional by the Hooksett School District, is under arrest on 12 counts of possession of child sexual abuse images.
The man, who caretakers referred to as “Corey,” walked a quarter of a mile up a hill that Saturday to reach the couple’s home, Smith said. He is the sole occupant of 21 Smith Road, a three-bedroom home owned by Community Options, a Princeton, N.J. -based non-profit company that contracted with New Hampshire to provide services to the mentally disabled.
A Bay State man is being detained in the Valley Street jail on charges he threatened employees of two businesses with a gun on Aug. 18.
A 34-year-old city drug dealer was found guilty of selling fentanyl to a second city drug dealer resulting in the overdose death of another person.
Eric Sweeney pleaded guilty Friday to killing his sister-in-law and his two young nephews, shooting all three in the head in their Northfield home in August 2022.
A teen is set to plead guilty on Friday to killing his sister-in-law and his two young nephews in their Northfield home in the summer of 2022.
Arthur Robert of Natick, Mass., one of Denise’s 11 siblings, said he was “floored” when he received a call at 4:30 a.m. on Aug. 31, 2015 from his brother Tom Robert of Manchester who shared the “cold hard facts” with him. “Nobody expects their older sister to be shot. I couldn’t understand how that could happen. She was a force of nature but certainly not one anyone would consider a threat,” he said.
The New Hampshire Cold Case Unit, which has 129 cases of missing and murdered people to solve, now has two full-time investigators because of funding prioritized by the Governor and passed by the Legislature.
Crystal R. Sorey, the mother of murdered 5-year-old Harmony Montgomery, is suing her child’s father who was convicted of beating the child to death in 2019 and then hiding her remains for months.
A city man was given a suspended sentence for molesting a teenage girl at a gym he owns on Elm Street.
A Goffstown man was sentenced to 4 to 8 years in the New Hampshire State Prison for possessing more than 5,000 child sexual abuse images.
Domestic violence-related charges against a Hillsborough County prosecutor were dropped Monday on condition he undergo a drug and alcohol evaluation and be of good behavior for a year.
A Hillsborough County prosecutor, who handles domestic violence cases, is being held in the Valley Street jail after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman.
Michael Walsh was high on crack and paranoid Saturday when he assaulted several women, including cutting one in the face with a knife, according to court documents.
The brother of a man stabbed to death on Orange Street is being held without bail on felony charges occurring the day after the murder but at the same address.
People voiced their overwhelming opposition to Hillsborough County entering into an agreement with ICE to hold detainees at the Valley Street Jail during a public hearing Wednesday on the county’s proposed $147.4 million budget for 2026.
A day before a federal court in New York is to hear an injunction requesting the court block the Trump administration’s order shutting down 99 Job Corps sites nationwide, an aspiring student and former New Hampshire graduate spoke about the program’s importance at a news conference Monday at Manchester Community College.
Steven Cole, the father of an 11-month-old baby girl who died after being hit by an alleged drunk driver, cried at her vigil Sunday night, saying “I tried to save you.”
Hundreds of people lined Elm Street near City Hall Plaza Saturday afternoon holding anti-Trump signs and, at times, chanting “Hey, Ho Donald Trump has got to go.”