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Attorney General Gordon J. MacDonald ruled the use of deadly force against Manning by Sgt. Matthew Barter and Officer Erik Slocum that day was legally justified.
“That’s data we didn’t have,” said Phil Alexakos, public health administrator for the Manchester Health Department. “Once this illness gets into a long-term care facility it spreads extremely rapidly and obviously has devastating consequences. Our hearts go out to the families of the loved ones who have passed.”
Determination, a skilled North Carolina surgeon and a 3D printer was all it took to ensure Memorial High School teacher Tara Michaud’s right foot would not be amputated due to severe injuries she suffered in a 2015 car crash.
Oftentimes, when a teen is reported missing police generally will think it is a runaway. But Laureen’s case was different. She had left without taking any money or any possessions with her, not even the new pair of sneakers she had received for her birthday.
The state knows of only two homeless people who have tested positive for COVID-19, state Department of Health and Humans Services Commissioner Lori Shibinette said Thursday during the Governor’s news conference concerning the virus.
Residents of the New Horizons homeless shelter lined up Friday morning to be tested for the novel coronavirus at a mobile test site set up in the alley behind the facility.
On Friday, from 7 to 8 p.m., WMUR is partnering with iHeartRadio for a fundraiser called “Project Community: New Hampshire Together From Home” to raise money for the NH Food Bank. A $1 donation is equal to two meals.
Eleven months ago, Kristie Chapman ventured on a new life, one drug-free and without calling the streets of Manchester her home. She had turned her life around after participating in an intensive program through the Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District Drug Court. That came to a crashing end on Wednesday, April 8, when she was arrested for stabbing Michael McGann, 71, in the neck and robbing him of $194.
Holloway was to be arraigned on March 19 but because of the ongoing COVID-19 crisis, the court canceled it and no new date was scheduled.
While four Manchester police officers tested positive for COVID-19, no city firefighter, to date, has tested positive for the virus, according to Fire Chief Dan Goonan.
Four city police officers have tested positive for COVID-19 while others are in self-monitoring, police announced Monday.
An unexpected $100,000 gift from a local charitable foundation is allowing FIT/New Horizons to open a second shelter to reduce the number of homeless housed in its 199 Manchester St. facility.
Cathy Kuhn said alternative sites have been identified in the city to house the homeless but what is needed is staffing and funding. She said the city put in a request to the state asking the National Guard for help in staffing the facilities. That request, she said, was turned down.
On Saturday, 5,000 meal packs, each containing two lunches, will be distributed to schoolchildren at five locations in the city, thanks to Southern New Hampshire University.
What is most touching, however, are the families who dropped off care packages containing notes of thanks and encouragement.
A Greater Manchester Alternative Care Site, set up in 72 hours for an anticipated surge in COVID-19 patients, was possible because of plans put into place by the city’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC) consisting of the mayor’s office and the city’s health, fire and police departments.
A 34-year-old Hooksett man is hospitalized in critical condition after he was found late Monday afternoon hanging in his cell in the Valley Street jail.
With New Hampshire recording its first death from COVID-19, and confirmed cases topping 100, plans are underway to find auxiliary health facilities across the state in preparation for a medical surge in cases that could overwhelm hospitals.
By Monday, all 178 school districts across New Hampshire will be educating the state’s 178,000 students remotely, according to Frank Edelblut, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Education.
The state’s largest school district is relying heavily on school bus drivers to not only bring lunches and breakfast to school children each day but their teachers’ assignments as well.