Posts by Pat Grossmith
A West Side man is under indictment on 15 felony charges accusing him of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl and taking pornographic photographs of her.
“We know change doesn’t happen overnight. We know change doesn’t happen by sitting around and complaining. Change takes work. And right now, our city is working because we’re working together.” – Mayor Joyce Craig
Library trustees are sympathetic about the state’s need for visitation sites, but say they had to think about the safety of the general public and staff using the library in prohibiting parent-child visits.
‘I believe that together, we can take back this city and transform it into the place we all dream it can be. But to do that, we need a mayor who is one of us. We need a mayor who acknowledges the problems facing our city rather than just ignoring them,” said Victoria Sullivan.
For most kids celebrating a 7th birthday, it means partying with friends, family and maybe a giant mouse or jumping around in a bouncy house. But Titus Spooner isn’t most kids. For his birthday this year, he wanted family and friends to leave the planet a little cleaner by helping him pick up trash March 31 at Derryfield Park.
More than 50 English Learner students from Manchester High School West and Hillside Middle School shared their stories in art books they worked on over the past three months. The presentation was held at City Hall.
Wide range of topics addressed, from unmet student needs and the budget, to class size and test scores.
The number one issue confronting the next Superintendent of the Manchester School District is the underfunding of the school system, residents said in answer to a survey conducted by a consulting group in charge of finding potential candidates to replace outgoing Superintendent Dr. Bolgen Vargas.
Neighbor Sheila Lemos says she was woken up at 3 a.m. by a man calling for help after being stabbed.
Justin Moura, the suspect in the shooting death of a Hudson woman, will remain in jail until trial after a Superior Court judge ruled the state showed “clear and convincing evidence” in charging him with second-degree murder.
The woman caught on video running from the scene of a fire while carrying a can of gasoline tried to burn down the occupied Silver Street apartment building because one of the residents had duped her in a drug deal, according to court records.
At a bail hearing Friday for Jeremy Winslow, a defense attorney argued that the state has lost sight of the fact that his client is also a victim of the shooting incident last Saturday night that resulted in the death of Tanya Hall, 34, Winslow’s girlfriend.
The incident happened in December, but Goffstown Police have exhausted leads, including involving the FBI.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Peter Hinckley said Justin Moura asked for a bail hearing, which is scheduled for next Tuesday.
Justin Moura served in the U.S. Army and played semi-pro football for the Granite State Destroyers, part of the New England Football League.
A “suspicious death” investigation initially was announced in a news release at 3 a.m. on March 3 but gave scant details about the circumstances or the location of the death.
Senior Assistant Attorney General Geoffrey Ward, Chief of the Criminal Justice Bureau, said five Manchester police officers were put on the Exculpatory Evidence Schedule, familiarly known as the “Laurie List,” last year.
Police are investigating the “suspicious” death of a woman Saturday night in the area of Old Granite Street.
Manchester’s police chief said four of his police officers, not five, were added last year to the New Hampshire Attorney General’s list of law enforcement officers with credibility issues because of their dishonesty and/ or criminal activity.
Manchester School District officials unveiled a preliminary 2020 Manchester School District budget of $172,226,978, which is a 2.3 percent hike over this year’s budget, and meets the city’s tax cap.