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A Hillsborough County Superior Court North jury deliberated for about five hours Friday without reaching a verdict in the case of Bradley Asbury, the former Youth Development Center supervisor accused of holding down a 14-year-old teen as two staffers raped him at the facility 26 years ago.
The New Hampshire Business Finance Authority (BFA) approved a $1 million loan to the New Hampshire Union Leader, the state’s largest newspaper, according to a news release issued Tuesday.
Stacey Lancaster was arranging a sexual encounter with a 12-year-old girl at a Manchester hotel while working at Manchester West High School where he is a teacher, according to court documents.
Michael Gilpatrick was a 14-year-old scrawny kid when in the late 1990s he was held down and gang raped on a staircase landing at the Youth Development Center by counselors who were supposed to protect him, according to testimony Tuesday in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District.
Opening statements are expected Tuesday morning in the criminal trial of a former state employee accused of abusing a teen being detained in the Youth Development Center (YDC).
Tom Puskarich who operates Restoration Café at 235 Hanover St., said one of the unintended consequences of the city’s decision to prevent the homeless from camping in city parks and on sidewalks is that they are gravitating to areas where they are vacant, privately owned buildings. And that, he said, has affected his business.
A 21-year-old city man was sentenced Thursday to six months in the Valley Street jail for injuring his infant daughter by shaking her.
A jury found a city man, who failed to appear in Hillsborough County Superior Court Northern District mid-trial, guilty of raping a woman twice and physically assaulting her.
Two Manchester residents face the prospect of up to life in prison after being indicted on charges of selling large amounts of fentanyl in the city, according to indictments brought by the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office.
A Manchester man was sentenced to 30-years in prison for beating a man to death last year near Manchester Central High School.
Kim Kossick, a public defender in the Manchester office since 2006, is asking a judge to impose monetary sanctions against Hillsborough County Attorney Coughlin and order him to take down a website, which attacks her and which she says violates the rights of her client, Amuri Diole. She maintains it could taint a potential jury pool.
Alexandra Eckersley, found guilty of abandoning her newborn infant in a makeshift tent on a frigidly cold winter night nearly two years ago, on Thursday was given suspended sentences.
A 22-year-old city man was indicted for attempted murder in a Goffstown shooting two years ago in which a man was shot in the abdomen.
In a small dedication ceremony on Friday Grove Street, between Elm and Willow streets, was renamed to honor the city’s first Black female land owner, Samantha Plantin.
According to the indictments, on July 7, 2024, Pierce, who was naked, picked up a paver and tried to strike the 86-year-old man in the head with it while yelling “I’m going to kill you.” He also is accused of repeatedly hitting Ned Tarmey in the head with a patio chair, causing him to suffer a brain injury, and repeatedly punched him while yelling, “You’re going to die. I’m going to kill you.”
Terry O’Leary, 65, said it is the third time in a few years that sprinklers have caused damage to other residents’ apartments. The first time, she said, a resident on the eighth floor fell asleep. The food he had left on the stove burned, started a fire and set off the sprinklers. Water poured down from the eighth floor to the first floor, causing water damage to apartments below.
A police investigation into Ward 6 Alderman Crissy Kantor’s allegation that a private citizen criminally defamed her has been reopened and turned over to state police after Manchester police received new allegations and information.
Michael MacNeilly, the Manchester police officer accused of assaulting his pregnant wife, was acquitted Thursday of all charges by a district court judge.
Under Wilson’s questioning, Shannon MacNeilly said, prior to their marriage, her husband had been untruthful with her, had cheated on her and as a result she had trust issues with him. She said she was concerned he was still getting messages from a woman while he “had a pregnant wife.”
