Posts by Pat Grossmith
Nineteen months ago, Alexandra Eckersley, 27, misdirected emergency workers searching for her newborn son, who she is accused of abandoning in a makeshift tent in temperatures hovering around 15 degrees, because she was afraid she would get in trouble, according to prosecutors.
Scott Hartford, a self-described outspoken liberal Democrat, said he has lost his job because Alderman At-Large Joe Kelly Levasseur targeted him on Facebook for a snarky social post Hartford made shortly after a bullet grazed Donald Trump’s ear in an assassination attempt on Saturday.
An 18-year-old is facing seven charges in connection to an incident in which a porta-potty was tipped over while a mother and her 4-year-old daughter were inside it.
The grand jury handed up 272 indictments for May.
Sally Dreckmann, accused of lacing children’s food and infant formula with melatonin so they would sleep, was operating an illegal day care center in her home, tending to 15 to 25 children daily, according to court records. The children, employees told an investigator, would nap for two to three hours after eating giving the workers a break.
Dr. Adnan S. Khan, 48, of Grantham owned New England Medicine and Counseling Associates (NEMCA) with locations in Grantham, Manchester, Newport and Rochester, and two others in Rutland and Colchester,Vermont.
A New Hampshire native, Joey Calcavecchia, 36, is a 2006 graduate of Pinkerton Academy and a 2012 graduate of the University of New Hampshire where he earned his bachelor’s degree in communications with a minor in nutrition. He has worked as a food reviewer for a decade.
Adam Montgomery, convicted of beating his 5-year-old daughter to death and hiding and abusing her corpse for months before disposing of it in a still undiscovered location, was sentenced essentially to life in prison.
Prosecutors in the case of Adam Montgomery, convicted in the beating death of his 5-year-old daughter and of abusing her corpse, are recommending he be sentenced to 56 years to life because, they maintain, there is no hope of rehabilitating him.
The day of the incident Prunier anonymously posted his account of what happened on the private Goffstown The Real Deal Facebook page. He then posted “No Trespassing” orders he sent to five women banning them from his shop. They included Harbus, Select board member Kelly Boyer, her wife Pam Boyer, Jillian Bernat, admin of the Goffstown The Real Real Deal Facebook page, and Jillian Pelletier. The women’s addresses were listed.
Michael MacNeilly, 28, is charged with eight domestic-related offenses including six counts of simple assault taking place on multiple occasions; one charge of obstructing a report of a crime, and one count of criminal mischief. The alleged assaults took place between Aug. 27 and Oct. 2, 2023, at their Ward Street home.
Judge Messer, in her order, wrote said that while state law allows a judge to exercise discretion to excuse a defendant from appearing at sentencing “the Court does not find that the defendant has raised an adequate factual or legal basis to do so here. The only factual basis the defendant asserts is his contention that he is innocent as to some of the charges.”
The pending $2 million sale of Manchester Water Works-owned property abutting Currier Hill came as a surprise to some when it came up at an aldermanic committee meeting last Monday but the 20+ acres tract has been up for sale since last August.
On March 28, four kindergarten students at Smyth Road School went missing for 45 minutes but their parents only learned of it after they were found outside an apartment complex about a mile away, according to the mother of one of the children.
A city resident was awarded more than $134,000 in lost wages and damages after a federal jury agreed with him that his supervisors at Market Basket discriminated against him when they twice promoted much younger and less experienced co-workers over him.
Chef Chris Viaud, owner of three New Hampshire restaurants, is a finalist for the 2024 James Beard Outstanding Restaurateur of the Year Award.
A Goffstown woman, whose husband committed suicide last September, has won her lawsuit against Goffstown police who refused to give her husband’s suicide letters to her.
Adam Montgomery wants a judge to excuse his appearance at his sentencing for killing his 5-year-old daughter, and other offenses.
Marcus Cherry, a drug kingpin who laundered drug proceeds through a local casino, was sentenced Friday to 25 to 50 years in the New Hampshire State Prison.
Two Manchester residents, arrested in the deaths of two people in unrelated incidents last year, were each indicted on a charge of manslaughter.