Posts by Pat Grossmith
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.”
A man and his five children were crossing Belmont Street Thursday afternoon when, he told police, “something came flying out of the sky,” striking his 11-year-old daughter, and his younger daughter, who turns 1 on Saturday, seriously injuring them.
Hillsborough County’s Sheriff Brian Newcomb has signed a contract with ICE, joining the task force cracking down on undocumented residents.
A city man was indicted on first-degree assault and other offenses in connection to a Feb. 7, 2025 stabbing outside Bunny’s Superette on Elm Street.
Derek “Brooklyn” Jones, the 60-year-old man found dead last week in a Union Street apartment building, was stabbed at least a dozen times with the knife left behind, lodged in his ribcage, according to court documents.
Forty young people will need homes by June 6 after the Trump administration announced it was eliminating the Jobs Corps program nationwide, including Manchester’s on Dunbarton Road.
A man covered in blood ran out of a Union Street apartment building early Tuesday morning yelling for someone to call police, that he had just killed someone, a witness told reporters.
A city man was sentenced to 45 years to life in the death of his 7-year-old son Jaevion Riley who died after he burned him over more than 15 percent of his body, beat him so badly he suffered a skull fracture and broken tooth, and whipped him with an electrical cord over several days in January 2023.
A city man was convicted of 18 child rape charges after a three-day trial in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District.
A former ROTC teacher at Manchester West High School was convicted of attempting to traffic a12-year-old for sex after a three-day trial in U.S. District Court.
Indictments issued for April covered a range of crimes from murder to first-degree assault charges, one involving the shooting of a Bedford police officer, who was shot in the leg with his own police-issued gun, and another where a man is accused of shooting his mother in the arm.
The parents and grandmother of five children found living in squalid in a Spruce Street apartment 3 ½ years ago are facing new charges.
A Derry woman, found guilty of negligent homicide in a 2023 high-speed crash at a busy Manchester intersection that took the life of her fiancé, was sentenced Monday to six months in prison.
Zachary Conway was found guilty of negligent homicide in the death of Baby Stella, the one-year-old daughter of his girlfriend, who drowned in a bathtub at the EconoLodge in 2019.
Founders Classical Academy was closed Monday and students attended classes remotely on Tuesday and Wednesday after the school received a criminal threat.
An Allenstown man was sentenced to 4-to-10-years in the New Hampshire State Prison for the beating of a 34-year-old man who had to have his jaw reconstructed after it was shattered in the attack.
A Hillsboro man was sentenced to 15-to-30-years in the New Hampshire State Prison after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to possession of child sexual abuse images and explosives.
